where is openoffice-bin 2.0?

btlee · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:24 am Post subject: where is openoffice-bin 2.0?

I heard that some distributor produced openoffice 2.0 for ppc linux.
But still there is no binary package of openoffice 2.0 for ppc in portage.
Actually, I built 1.1.5 version, although it took so long time to build (1 days and 3 hours!).
However, for 2.0 version, it is impossible for me to build it, because my ibook has a small disk capacity.
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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Unfortunately until there's an official OO.o-2 build at: http://porting.openoffice.org/linuxppc/ppclinks.html, there won't be an openoffice-bin build. Pylon built an OpenOffice 2.0.0 binpkg with all USE flags enabled, optimised for G4 and LINGUAS="en de", it's available here: http://tinyurl.com/d5s3w. If anyone would like to contribute a G3 build, please post it here. ;)
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btlee · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:55 pm Post subject:

thanks, but the bin-package doesn't work on my ibook.
although i installed java, still it does not start.
who has binary package for g3 without java?
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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

I didn't think it would work on your G3, I clearly stated it was a G4 optimised build. :p Sorry.
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HighOnBonsai · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 260

I compiled OOo2 on my G4 Powerbook 1 GHz: It took about 18 hours... ;-)

But it works fine!

Christopher
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praveen · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 43

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can we expect an official ppc release anytime (soon)? as i can see the latest official release is 1.1.2 while 1.1.5 was the actual latest release of the 1.x branch. i would really appreciate an update as i dont like to compile the whole thing by myself..

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Probably not, they seem to have stopped providing 1.x builds after 1.1.2.
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silian87 · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject:

Here You can find my Open Office binary. Read the txt files for more info (the package is n english):
http://marentax.homelinux.org/pub/gnu_linux_distributions/gentoo/ppc/openoffice/

Please downoad it slowly.... the server is hosted on my home-adsl line with max 35k/s speed... thk

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nmainil · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Brussels

I got the same JDK as you, what version of dev-java/ant-core do you have cause I had some troubles with this package: I couldn't install the ppc-stable package (emerge failed) and had to install the unstable one (1.6.5-r2) and I think it might be the problem. When emerging openoffice i had messages from ant that looked like 'sun malformed io exception' something like that.

HighOnBonsai · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 260

I have ant-core-1.6.5-r2 installed, just as you have...

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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

The malformed io expression is due to using a UTF8 environment. See this bug for more info: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93649
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silian87 · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:33 pm Post subject:

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I couldn't get OO-2.0 to work; same problem of no windowing system found. But I am able to use the 1.1.4 version provided by silian87 and it works. Thanks silian87.

There is a small display problem. When I am in any drop-down menu item like File etc., the item that is highlighted by the mouse is covered by dark-blue color and I cannot read the text below it. Is there a way to fix this ?

silian87 · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject:

I don't know how to solve all your problems, and I am very sad for it :cry:

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praveen · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 43

I fixed my problem by making a change in the settings. In Options->OpenOffice->View, I changed the text anti-aliasing from 8 to 14. This fixed the display problem I described before.

btlee · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:26 am Post subject:

still no package for G3 :cry:

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davidgurvich · Veteran Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 1063

Openoffice needs either the kde or gnome libraries to run. As long as you install either of those, and your display manager can handle it, openoffice will run. I don't know what the minimal set of libraries is.

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

for those interested in a spanish enabled oo2 version for G4, Freenix has been as kind to rolling them up for us. More info here:
http://www.gentoo-es.org/node/740

cheers