Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:37:36 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm expecting a reply from Joshua or other folks to my posting whether I can stop running 'make clean' the ports trees in the mid-way. In doing so it won't damage the OS. After clarification I shall install 'automa

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Matthew, Tks for your advice. > > Can I use 'zxvf' to untar the packages and do > 'setup' > > to install OOo, the normal way not FreeBSD way? > > No -- in this case the files being referred to are > in fact FreeBSD > pkg's. You can certainly extract the contents using > 'tar -zxvf', but >

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 08:32:37PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Can I use 'zxvf' to untar the packages and do 'setup' > to install OOo, the normal way not FreeBSD way? No -- in this case the files being referred to are in fact FreeBSD pkg's. You can certainly extract the contents using 'tar -zx

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - > > No. It's a package, and it's *not* a tgz file. > > Errr... folks -- packages *are* .tgz files. Except > under 5.x where > they are .tbz files. They could just as well be > .zip files, or some > sort of compressed cpio format like .rpms or Solaris > packages. It's > just a mechani

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - > > > see what's > > > happening, and install the darned thing. > > > > # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz > > pkg_add: could not find package ORBit-0.5.17_2 ! > > > > Now another problem comes on installing > RRBit-0.5.17_2 > > as follow; > > > > # cd /usr/ports/ > > #

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:49:50AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: > * Terry L. Tyson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-24 08:32]: > > It's not a package, it's a tgz file. Use "tar xzvf file.tgz". Go to the > > OO site and read the install instructions, there are other things you > > No. It's a packag

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-24 17:56]: > > [2004-04-24 08:32]: > > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen > > Liu wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > FreeBSD 5.2 > > > > > > > > I encountered following problem on installing > > OOo > > > > > > I note that you > >

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
> [2004-04-24 08:32]: > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen > Liu wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > FreeBSD 5.2 > > > > > > I encountered following problem on installing > OOo > > > > > > OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz > > > was download to /usr/home/user/Download > >

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Terry L. Tyson Jr.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:49:50AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: > No. It's a package, and it's *not* a tgz file. But yes, you do need to > go do some reading, and there very likely are other things you will need > to do. As a previous responder noted, when you 'su -' it simulates a > full root log

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Terry L. Tyson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-24 08:32]: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > FreeBSD 5.2 > > > > I encountered following problem on installing OOo > > > > OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz > > was download to /usr/home/u

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > $ su - > > password > > You are in "/root" now. If you use "su" instead of > "su -", you will stay > in the current directory. > > > > > # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz > > pkg_add: can't stat package file > > 'OOo_1.1.1

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
> > FreeBSD 5.2 > > > > I encountered following problem on installing OOo > > > > OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz > > was download to /usr/home/user/Download > > > > $ cd /usr/home/user/Download/ > > checked md5 OK > > > > $ ls -al > > ... > > -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 73105915 Apr 1

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Terry L. Tyson Jr.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > FreeBSD 5.2 > > I encountered following problem on installing OOo > > OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz > was download to /usr/home/user/Download > > $ cd /usr/home/user/Download/ > checked md5 OK > > $ ls -al

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Stephen, $ su - password You are in "/root" now. If you use "su" instead of "su -", you will stay in the current directory. # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz pkg_add: can't stat package file 'OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz' Kindly advise what mistake I have committe

Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz was download to /usr/home/user/Download $ cd /usr/home/user/Download/ checked md5 OK $ ls -al ... -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 73105915 Apr 17 18:11 OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_inst