M$ and Open Office

[Alexander Portnoy]

On 24 Sep 2003 09:51:42 +1000
Andy K <andy at richardflanagan.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Alexander
> 
> Thank you very much for that. Excellent, I will add that today :). One
> question though - do I have to deinstall the version I have on my system
> at the moment - Or will the new one overwrite it ?
> 
> Thanks
> Andrew Kozak
> 
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:45, Alexander Portnoy wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:39:46 +0300
> > Alexander Portnoy <my-subs at mail.ru> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Get OpenOffice 1.1rc4 package for FreeBSD 4.8
> > > from http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice and add 128 or 256 MB RAM ;-)
> > > It works fine on FreeBSD-4.8-RELEASE (P-III-866MHz/256MB RAM) and really opens
> > > M$-OfficeXP documents (doc, ppt, ...). It has great support for bidirectional
> > > languages (hebrew works very well) and can export documents to different formats (including PDF).
> > > 
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> > > 
> > 
> > pkg_add openoffice-1.1RC4.tgz
> > touch ${HOME}/.OpenOffice.org1.1.0/user/config/soffice.cfg
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> 
> 
> 

All You need is to remove (or just rename) an existing ${HOME}/.OpenOffice* directory.
Afer 'pkg_add openoffice-1.1RC4.tgz' and 'touch ${HOME}/.OpenOffice.org1.1.0/user/config/soffice.cfg'
You must run  'openoffice-1.1' as user and answer number of questions.
One of the questions is an installation type - choose the network variant of installation
instead of workstation one. Otherwise OpenOffice will install itself into your home directory
(~200MB) instead of setting up configuration files only.