emerging openoffice - help!

Schooner · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:51 am Post subject: emerging openoffice - help!

Ok, here's the deal. I'm trying to e-merge openoffice onto my Gentoo/KDE system. When I run emerge, I get the following error:

roep · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 3

I had this same issue. I did an
[code]emerge sync[/code]
then set java to use the sun jdk instead of blackdown using
[code]java-config -S sun-jdk-1.4.2.06[/code].
After this openoffice compiled without complaint. Hope this helps.

Galabriel · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject:

Hi partner... listen carefully and ur Open-Office will work

go to www.openoffice.org and download the newest open offic for ur linux

then go in console

first af all make a directory called temp in the "/" directory

then use following commands:

tar xzf /ur file, no idea where u have it ill give an example

tar xzf /home/galabriel/Desktop/downloads/Openoffice.tar.gz -C /temp

then switch in the directory where u extracted the files

cd /temp/OpenOffice

then type this ./setup and u can use a graphical installer for ur open office

IMPORTANT DONT BE ROOT IF U INSTALL IT JUST NORMAL USER

greetings

galabriel
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suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

Schooner · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject:

After having searched more and read lots on this particular error code, it would seem that the error is realted to disk space or memory. Since the system I am running the emerge on only has 128 MB of RAM... I think that that's the problem. I will try to rememdy this and let you know if it helps. Thanks!
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Galabriel · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:

suka ur right :d

*kneelingdownfromthedeveloper*

i didnt know that there u need 256mb memory for compiling...

linux is getting more and more interesting for me

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chunderbunny · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject:

Openoffice is a resource hog when compiling. I think the min requirements for compiling it are 256MB of RAM and 4GB of free disk space.

Schooner · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject:

I'm going to try and snag up some RAM from my other system and try this again tonight. If it works, then I'll start spreading the word. I see a lot of posts on here very similar to mine...
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