On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:31:18PM -0800, Ted Brenner wrote: > I have FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE installed on a Pentium III > machine and I installed OpenOffice but when ever I try > and open up a Word2000 document that I saved on my > Windows machine, OpenOffice closes sayin an > unrecoverable error. Has anyone else experienced this > and know what's causing it? Or how to find out what's > causing it?
I've had that problem with OpenOffice, but usually, in such a case, nothing at all opens (hrrm, is that a bad pun?) One thing that seems to be a factor is that it has to be installed--that is, cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice and make install as root--not sudo and not even su--this seems to have to do with various paths during installation. (This is not from having knowledge of this, it's from searching Google and finding it echoed in my own experience). These days though, on a new installation, I usually just download the FreeBSD binaries from openoffice.org. I've had good luck on a few recent installs with that, no problems whatsoever. FWIW, when it works, I can open Word 2000 documents without problem. Hope this is of some small use. > -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
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