This will display something very ugly that anyone who's ever used Red Hat Linux will be familiar with.

Rpm -Uvih -ignoreos -ignorearch -root /usr/compat/linux -nodeps *.rpm rpm file, or you can just leave them all. If there is a particular component/feature that you know you don't want, you can delete that individual. If you do an 'ls', you'll see about 25 files ending with the extension '.rpm'.

This will extract the install files to /usr/compat/linux/usr doing an 'ls' should reveal the following newly created directory: 'OOA680_m1_native_packed-1_en-US.8990'.Ĭd OOA680_m1_native_packed-1_en-US.8990/RPMS/ Mv OOo_2.0.1_LinuxIntel_ /usr/compat/linux/usr The file that we downloaded from should be named something like 'OOo_2.0.1_LinuxIntel_', which we'll use in the following example. Now that we have Linux support, it's time to install. To automatically load this module each time we start up our system, we need to add a line to /boot/nf: If not, run the following command as root: If you have this line, then you already have the Linux kernel module loaded. Next, run the following command in a terminal window: This is not to disparage the efforts of the Good Day maintainer in making FreeBSD OpenOffice packages available to the public, but if you want the current version of OpenOffice, or there is no Good Day package available and you don't want to wait for it to compile, here is a quick alternative.įirst, go to click on the 'Download ' link, and select the Linux (x86) version. While it is true that Good Day occasionally has FreeBSD OpenOffice packages available, the packages are often outdated and sometimes (early January 2007) not available at all.

(A recent attempt to compile version 2.1.0 failed with a compiler error about 40 hours into the process). With the availability of a FreeBSD-native version of, you might ask 'why would I want to install the Linux version?' While there are plenty of reasons, one very good one in my opinion is the incredible amount of time it takes to compile OpenOffice! On my IBM ThinkPad i Series 1300 (700 MHz Intel Celeron), it once took me 50+ hours to compile the behemoth.

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