docs/76057: Handbook method for obtaining OpenOffice doesn't work

[Remko Lodder]

The following reply was made to PR docs/76057; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org>
To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/76057: Handbook method for obtaining OpenOffice doesn't work
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:20:14 +0100

 On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:59:56PM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
 > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:40:15PM +0000, Remko Lodder wrote:
 > > The following reply was made to PR docs/76057; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > > 
 > > From: Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org>
 > > To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, john at starfire.mn.org
 > > Cc:  
 > > Subject: Re: docs/76057: Handbook method for obtaining OpenOffice doesn't
 > >  work
 > > Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:32:20 +0100
 > > 
 > >  Hi guys,
 > >  
 > >  I created a patch that might solve this PR.
 > >  
 > >  Does anyone have suggestions in how i can do this better?
 > >  
 > >  the diff:
 > >  
 > >  Index: chapter.sgml
 > >  ===================================================================
 > >  RCS file: 
 > >  /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml,v
 > >  retrieving revision 1.50
 > >  diff -u -r1.50 chapter.sgml
 > >  --- chapter.sgml        20 Feb 2005 12:51:33 -0000      1.50
 > >  +++ chapter.sgml        27 Feb 2005 14:05:28 -0000
 > >  @@ -631,9 +631,10 @@
 > >           Porting Team</ulink>'s web site.</para>
 > >  
 > >          <para>To install <application>OpenOffice.org</application>,
 > >  -        do:</para>
 > >  +       download the appropriate package from the FreeBSD OpenOffice
 > >  +       Porting Team web site.  Then install the package:</para>
 > >  
 > >  -      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r 
 > >  openoffice</userinput></screen>
 > >  +      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add 
 > >  <replaceable>openoffice_install.tgz</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 > >
 > 
 > If you run a -RELEASE the "remote package" exists.  It should be more
 > interesting to keep the current text and add a note to point people (and
 > persons using something else than -RELEASE) on
 > http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ for up to date packages.  No need
 > to give the pkg_add(8) command line since the reader should be able to
 > adapt the previous example and since the package name may vary a lot
 > (look at
 > http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/).
 > 
 > Marc
 
 Hi Marc!
 
 Thanks for the feedback, i worked out your comments and this is the result:
 
 Index: chapter.sgml
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml,v
 retrieving revision 1.50
 diff -u -r1.50 chapter.sgml
 --- chapter.sgml        20 Feb 2005 12:51:33 -0000      1.50
 +++ chapter.sgml        27 Feb 2005 15:18:10 -0000
 @@ -635,6 +635,14 @@
  
        <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r openoffice</userinput></screen>
  
 +      <note>
 +        <para>If you are <emphasis>not</emphasis> running a -RELEASE
 +         version of &os; this might not work.  You should then look on
 +         the FreeBSD OpenOffice Porting Team web site and download the
 +         appropriate package and install the package using
 +         &man.pkg_add.1;.</para>
 +      </note>
 +
        <para>Once the package is installed, you must run the setup
          program and choose a <option>standard workstation installation</option>.
          Run this command as the user who will use
 
 What do you think about that?
 -- 
 Kind regards,
 
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