On Monday 05 May 2008, Wang, Baojun wrote:
> 在 2008-05-05一的 11:35 +0200，econti写道：
>
> > Hi all
> > I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran
> >
> > emerge -s openoffice
> > and here is the result
> >
> > * app-office/openoffice
> > Latest version available: 2.4.0
> > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> > Size of files: 247,060 kB
> > Homepage: http://go-oo.org
> > Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite.
> > License: LGPL-2
> >
> > * app-office/openoffice-bin
> > Latest version available: 2.4.0
> > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> > Size of files: 1,149,284 kB
> > Homepage: http://www.openoffice.org/
> > Description: OpenOffice productivity suite
> > License: LGPL-2
> >
> >
> > Questions:
> > 1 - the difference between openoffice and openoffice-bin
>
> openoffice-bin is a binary tarball thus we don't have to build from
> source. but it dosn't have so many USE flag as `openoffice` so I think
> it's less flexible, most important, it's only for 32bit (on x86), so if
> you need an amd64 version of OO, you'd better to build your own.
>
> > 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB
> > Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor?
>
> I think should be around 4
> hrs, if it's a dual-core processor, that
> should be faster.
>
nope: Estimated update time: 7 hours, 31 minutes.
(app-office/openoffice-2.4.0)
this is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ with 3GiB of RAM
so you should be really sure that you want to compile it!!
otherwise go with the openoffice-bin package it saves you a lot of
time/frustration
Rudmer
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