installing openoffice by package

[Peter]

--- nicky <nicky at valuecare.nl> wrote:

> Nikolas Britton wrote:
> > On 6/13/06, Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> --- Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 6/13/06, Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >> > > I tried unsuccessfully to build OpenOffice 2.0 on my 5.4 box.
> >> > Never
> >> > > had enoudh space in /usr...
> >> > >
> >> > > I decided to install by package:
> >> > >
> >> > > # pkg_add -r openoffice.org
> >> > >
> >> > > It tried to install version 1.1.5...
> >> > >
> >> > > Anyway, trying to start it gives errors:
> >> > >
> >> > > # openoffice.org-1.1.5
> >> > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libstdc++.so.5" not
> found,
> >> > > required by "javaldx"
> >> > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libstdc++.so.5" not
> found,
> >> > > required by "soffice.bin"
> >> > >
> >> > > Any ideas?
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Try KOffice 1.5.1. I've never had a build fail and it now
> supports
> >> > ODF
> >> > documents... anyways...
> >>
> >> Nope, I tried that and I was not satisfied with it due to its .xls
> >> handling.  Trouble is, I removed it already and now I'm left
> without
> >> any MS readers.  Forget Abiword...
> >>
> >
> > Try gnumeric?.... why use .xls, .doc etc. when you have ODF? save
> all
> > your documents in ODF.
> >
> >
> http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/#obtain
> 
> The above link gives you FreeBSD packages for OpenOffice (i've used 
> those myself).

Thank you.  I have it installed now.  Finally I have a word processor
(that's all I want) that works.

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