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Jeevz Bodhisattva
Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Posts: 195 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 11:24 pm Post subject: No OpenOffice? |
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Is it just me or is there no Open Office in portage? |
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fghellar Bodhisattva
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 856 Location: Porto Alegre, BR
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Nick Guest
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 11:31 pm Post subject: openoffice |
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i installed successfully on gentoo from the binaries available at the openoffice site |
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Jeevz Bodhisattva
Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Posts: 195 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 12:12 am Post subject: |
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fghellar wrote: | It's masked, so emerge won't install it. |
Why would it be masked? Any reason? Did you install it successfully? |
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ketanrp n00b
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 14
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 12:23 am Post subject: |
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I think that it's masked because it takes a really long time to compile, like 12+ hours, not sure though. |
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fghellar Bodhisattva
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 856 Location: Porto Alegre, BR
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Take a look in that /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask file, there should be a short explanation there. _________________ | www.gentoo.org | www.tldp.org | www.google.com | |
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Nitro Bodhisattva
Joined: 08 Apr 2002 Posts: 661 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 4:23 am Post subject: |
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I too have sucessfully installed the binaries from openoffice.org. Go grab them @ http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/build_641d/index.html
No compiling!
No compiling! _________________ - Kyle Manna
Please, please SEARCH before posting.
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niyogi Apprentice
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 199 Location: Austin, TX
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 6:39 am Post subject: |
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well... i wonder in this case whether or not compiling really optimizes openoffice significantly more than installing the binaries.... openoffice is a rather large program. |
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Jeevz Bodhisattva
Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Posts: 195 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 11:25 am Post subject: |
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Ok, thanks all! Guess I will go the precompiled route. |
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Target Guest
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 12:20 am Post subject: |
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According to package.mask, openoffice is very dangerous?
What's a user-space office suite going to do? Cause a kernel panic? :p |
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Appu n00b
Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 41 Location: Hyderabad, India
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 10:38 am Post subject: |
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ketanrp wrote: | I think that it's masked because it takes a really long time to compile, like 12+ hours, not sure though. |
Another reason could be that it requires gcc3. I unmasked it to check out its dependencies (and basically do an emerge --fetchonly) and found out that it wants gcc3.
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bbibber n00b
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Mechelen - Belgium
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 1:36 pm Post subject: Binaries don't work either... :/ |
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*ahem* I don't even get good results installing the latest stable binaries from the openoffice site (641d) .
When I start it with
swriter appears for 2 seconds and then stops.
The machine is a PII-300Mhz and I compiled the whole system with -O3 and only for the i686 (march=i686). Staroffice 5.2 runs without any problems.
Funny thing:
- I log in with another pc on the machine (with ssh),
- I export Code: | export DISPLAY="0:0" | , and run the same program, it works !! (oh boy... )
Does anyone have the same problem?
Thanks
Guy |
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Jeevz Bodhisattva
Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Posts: 195 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: Binaries don't work either... :/ |
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bbibber wrote: | Does anyone have the same problem? |
I actually haven't gotten around to installing it yet. Too busy tweaking other parts of my system.
I will try sometime this week and see what happens. If I get the same error I will be sure to let you know. |
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Silvaran n00b
Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 8
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: Binaries don't work either... :/ |
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bbibber wrote: | swriter appears for 2 seconds and then stops. |
I had the same problem.. so I ran it again and it works... I had another problem (nss if it's related) in that openoffice was looking in /usr/local for everything (including user-specific settings). My solution was to use setup -net to install to /usr/local, but delete ~/.openoffice (where I installed user-specific files), ~/.user60.rdb and ~/.sversionrc. Then run /usr/local/program/soffice. It'll quit, but spawn the installation. I installed it network (so the install takes only a few k or so to my home directory), and once that was done (~10 seconds) I ran /usr/local/program/soffice again and it worked fine. _________________ Should you immerse yourself in the fluidity of life, only to drown in its revelations? |
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bbibber n00b
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Mechelen - Belgium
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: Binaries don't work either... :/ |
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Silvaran wrote: | bbibber wrote: | swriter appears for 2 seconds and then stops. |
My solution was to use setup -net to install to /usr/local, but delete ~/.openoffice (where I installed user-specific files), ~/.user60.rdb and ~/.sversionrc. Then run /usr/local/program/soffice. |
It tried it (except I didn't delete .sversionrc because staroffice 5.2 uses it as well, so I deleted the openoffice entry) but it didn't work...
Bummer, I 'll just keep on using so 5.2 then |
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Wilke n00b
Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 40 Location: University of Twente
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2002 3:31 pm Post subject: Installing Openoffice.org 1.0 binaries (the *right* way) |
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When installing the binaries on a multi-user system (or when you don't want to login as root, or be the 'owner' of /usr/local/openoffice), install like this:
- Download Openoffice.org 1.0 binary package.
- Unpack it in your home dir (or /tmp, or wherever)
- Become root
- cd setup
- ./setup -net
- Install to /usr/local/openoffice (or wherever you want)
- exit root shell
- optional: remove setup-dir from your homedir or /tmp (don't need it anymore).
- Run /usr/local/openoffice/setup for every user that should be able to use Openoffice
- Choose the 'workstation' install (only 2 MB or so)
- Fill in the info (name, address, etc.) for every user.
- Wait a bit, or restart KDE or GNOME (if you use either of those), the menu-options should be installed automagically.
This info should be on their site somewhere as well, but it's not exactly very easy to find. |
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grahamdog n00b
Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 10
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2002 4:26 pm Post subject: there is an ebuild |
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There is an ebuild for OpenOffice:
emerge openoffice-bin
It only installs the pre-compiled binaries, but it worked fine for me.
For some reason OpenOffice won't open work saved in Microsoft Office, any ideas? |
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DNH n00b
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 60 Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 2:52 am Post subject: |
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for those of you who like being able to easily remove packages via portage, the binary version is also available through portage: A quick Code: | emerge openoffice-bin | will download and install it with the -net option, enabling multiple user accounts on one install. Be sure and first to get the latest ebuild. _________________ The answer |
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lannie n00b
Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 33
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 1:09 am Post subject: |
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hello
if i can remember right... (it has been while) you could just install the actual openoffice 1.0 binaries.. by going to the openoffice-bin directory...
(ie. /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin )
and do
Code: | merge *watever openoffice-bin ebuild file u want* |
i'm at university at the moment so i can't remember the actual details.. i'll will verify this later on the day |
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