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Re: firefox and OpenOffice for 6.1_STABLE



I was unsuccessful last summer at installing OpenOffice. In any case, OO has been replaced by reoffice, and after fighting with the java install for a while I was able to install it. (Has to play some games with ulimit on my package builds...)

On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:

No - I have no means of telling this.   I would be grateful for any
guidance that will get me a working browser and OpenOffice in
up-to-date versions.   I am finding the move to amd64 quite painful
for lack of clear signals about how to put together the day-to-day
toolkit.   I get the sense that NetBSD is becoming less accessible to
a technically-based business that is not focussed on OS development
and enhancement, but I would like to believe that I'm just missing out
on some current documentation or know-how.   After many years (since
before 2.0) of being exclusively NetBSD-based other than for delivery
tools for Windows boxes, I'm beginning to find that putting a rew
releas together with standard packages is soaking up unprecedented
amounts of my time.   Surely someone has successfully set up a recent
Firefox and OpenOffice?

Kind regards,

--
Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 03:23:01PM +0100, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
It may be worth noting that firefox36 requires fonts/freetype-tt

Just noting in passing, just to make sure: you are aware that firefox36
(i.e. firefox version 3.6) is *ancient* and there are very few valid
reasons to use that version?

We may have to remove it soon, when it will collide with a modern version
36 ;-)

Martin




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