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PostPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 11:24 pm    Post subject: No OpenOffice? Reply with quote

Is it just me or is there no Open Office in portage?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's masked, so emerge won't install it.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 11:31 pm    Post subject: openoffice Reply with quote

i installed successfully on gentoo from the binaries available at the openoffice site
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fghellar wrote:
It's masked, so emerge won't install it.


Why would it be masked? Any reason? Did you install it successfully?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think that it's masked because it takes a really long time to compile, like 12+ hours, not sure though.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take a look in that /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask file, there should be a short explanation there.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 4:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I too have sucessfully installed the binaries from openoffice.org. Go grab them @ http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/build_641d/index.html

No compiling! :)
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well... i wonder in this case whether or not compiling really optimizes openoffice significantly more than installing the binaries.... openoffice is a rather large program.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, thanks all! Guess I will go the precompiled route.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

According to package.mask, openoffice is very dangerous?
What's a user-space office suite going to do? Cause a kernel panic? :p
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ketanrp wrote:
I think that it's masked because it takes a really long time to compile, like 12+ hours, not sure though.


Another reason could be that it requires gcc3. I unmasked it to check out its dependencies (and basically do an emerge --fetchonly) and found out that it wants gcc3.


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 1:36 pm    Post subject: Binaries don't work either... :/ Reply with quote

*ahem* I don't even get good results installing the latest stable binaries from the openoffice site (641d) :oops: .
When I start it with
Code:
./soffice

swriter appears for 2 seconds and then stops.
The machine is a PII-300Mhz and I compiled the whole system with -O3 and only for the i686 (march=i686). Staroffice 5.2 runs without any problems.
Funny thing:
- I log in with another pc on the machine (with ssh),
- I export
Code:
export DISPLAY="0:0"
, and run the same program, it works !! (oh boy... :o)

Does anyone have the same problem?

Thanks
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 2:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Binaries don't work either... :/ Reply with quote

bbibber wrote:
Does anyone have the same problem?


I actually haven't gotten around to installing it yet. Too busy tweaking other parts of my system. :)

I will try sometime this week and see what happens. If I get the same error I will be sure to let you know.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 4:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Binaries don't work either... :/ Reply with quote

bbibber wrote:
swriter appears for 2 seconds and then stops.


I had the same problem.. so I ran it again and it works... I had another problem (nss if it's related) in that openoffice was looking in /usr/local for everything (including user-specific settings). My solution was to use setup -net to install to /usr/local, but delete ~/.openoffice (where I installed user-specific files), ~/.user60.rdb and ~/.sversionrc. Then run /usr/local/program/soffice. It'll quit, but spawn the installation. I installed it network (so the install takes only a few k or so to my home directory), and once that was done (~10 seconds) I ran /usr/local/program/soffice again and it worked fine.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 7:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Binaries don't work either... :/ Reply with quote

Silvaran wrote:
bbibber wrote:
swriter appears for 2 seconds and then stops.

My solution was to use setup -net to install to /usr/local, but delete ~/.openoffice (where I installed user-specific files), ~/.user60.rdb and ~/.sversionrc. Then run /usr/local/program/soffice.


It tried it (except I didn't delete .sversionrc because staroffice 5.2 uses it as well, so I deleted the openoffice entry) but it didn't work...

Bummer, I 'll just keep on using so 5.2 then :-)
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PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2002 3:31 pm    Post subject: Installing Openoffice.org 1.0 binaries (the *right* way) Reply with quote

When installing the binaries on a multi-user system (or when you don't want to login as root, or be the 'owner' of /usr/local/openoffice), install like this:

- Download Openoffice.org 1.0 binary package.
- Unpack it in your home dir (or /tmp, or wherever)
- Become root
- cd setup
- ./setup -net
- Install to /usr/local/openoffice (or wherever you want)
- exit root shell
- optional: remove setup-dir from your homedir or /tmp (don't need it anymore).
- Run /usr/local/openoffice/setup for every user that should be able to use Openoffice
- Choose the 'workstation' install (only 2 MB or so)
- Fill in the info (name, address, etc.) for every user.
- Wait a bit, or restart KDE or GNOME (if you use either of those), the menu-options should be installed automagically.

This info should be on their site somewhere as well, but it's not exactly very easy to find.
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PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2002 4:26 pm    Post subject: there is an ebuild Reply with quote

There is an ebuild for OpenOffice:

emerge openoffice-bin

It only installs the pre-compiled binaries, but it worked fine for me.
For some reason OpenOffice won't open work saved in Microsoft Office, any ideas?
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2002 2:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

for those of you who like being able to easily remove packages via portage, the binary version is also available through portage: A quick
Code:
emerge openoffice-bin
will download and install it with the -net option, enabling multiple user accounts on one install. Be sure and
Code:
emerge rsync
first to get the latest ebuild.
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PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2002 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hello :)

if i can remember right... (it has been while) you could just install the actual openoffice 1.0 binaries.. by going to the openoffice-bin directory...
(ie. /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin )

and do
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 merge *watever openoffice-bin ebuild file u want*



i'm at university at the moment so i can't remember the actual details.. i'll will verify this later on the day :)
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