OpenOffice 1.1.0rc3 Working

Contributed by jose on 2003-09-03 from the ain't-it-strange dept.

Craig Barraclough has posted a message to the ports list that announces that OpenOffice 1.1.0RC3 works on OpenBSD. His posting describes how easy it is to get it to work:

Having no luck with VMWare3, so for kicks I decided to have a go at OpenOffice. 1.0.3 port didn't work, so grabbed 1.1rc3. The good new is, it works on my -current (x86) machine, almost straight out of the box!
The only change I made was based on OOffice 1.0.3 port, modify ./OOo_1.1rc3_LinuxIntel_install/install oo_home variable changed to openoffice (installs into /usr/local/${oo_home} ) Add LD_LIBRARY_PATH . Not sure if this is needed.

Sounds pretty simple, and we'll have to see if a port can't be made soon. Thanks for the information, Craig!

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By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-03 10:45

It fails on 3.3 due to glibc not being recent enough. Oh well; I'll wait for 3.4 then.
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1. By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-04 01:15
  
  3.4? Is that when OpenBSD imports glibc? wow!
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  1. By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-03 14:36
    
    No, but glibc in ports has probably been updated since 3.3 came out. Maybe it does work on 3.3 with a manually updated glibc port?
By psygbert () on 2003-09-03 14:17

i have also able to run openoffice on obsd, but with a different approach, first, i installed it on the linux box with the same uid, tar gzipped it and extracted to my user's homedir, enable /proc, selectively update the linux bin/lib in the emul dir and there it goes =)
By schubert () on 2003-09-03 22:53

It's just using the linux binaries, this was first done by David Lebel a long time ago (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-ports&m=104222839712007&w=2) and I tried to create a port of with limited success (see the mailing list archives).
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1. By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-04 13:28
  
  Native build or not the fact that it's running is great, there's absoluetly no reason now not to use OBSD as your desktop as well as on your servers.
  
  IMHO this helps the OBSD desktop get ready for prime time.
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  1. By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-04 02:40
    
    How about Mozilla/Firebird/Thunderbird for web browsing and email?
    
    No, I do not want to use Opera or Konqueror or Netscape or...
    
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    By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-04 04:54
    
    Mozilla Firebird builds and runs properly on my -current system, so it will on 3.4 too.
    
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    By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-04 11:09
    
    I even managed to get them both (mozilla & firebird) running on a 3.3-RELEASE system. The -current port seems to work fine.
    
    (NOTE: In general this is a BAD idea, mixing ports/base, but in this case, it seems to work fine)
    
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    By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-04 12:33
    
    firebird works great for me, mouse gestures and all if you're into that sorta ting. Running 3.4 Beta.
    
    Built it right out of the ports!
    
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    By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-04 15:47
    
    How about Thunderbird?
    
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    By schubert () on 2003-09-04 16:21
    
    http://schubert.cx/openbsd/ports/mozilla-thunderbird.tar.gz I'll be posting it to ports@ later for review, it will probably make it into 3.5 but its too late for 3.4
    
    By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-09-04 15:54
    
    I'm considering a switch to OpenBSD on the desktop. Which of these work on OpenBSD right now?
    
    - Thunderbird
    - Crossover Office
    - Crossover Plugin
    - J-Pilot
    - RealPlayer
    - Flash
    - Acrobat Reader
    
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    By schubert () on 2003-09-04 20:13 http://schubert.cx/
    
    - Yes as of last night (http://schubert.cx/openbsd/ports/mozilla-thunderbird.tar.gz)
    - No but someone is looking into it
    - Same as above
    - No clue
    - No clue
    - graphics/swfdec exists and it works on some flash but its very buggy right now
    - Yes print/acroread has been around for quite some time.
    
    By jose () on 2003-09-04 22:10 http://monkey.org/~jose/
    
    i've seen realplayer work with linux emulation, but that was a pre-ELF system ...
  2. By Charles Hill () chill@herber-hill.com on 2003-09-05 13:06 mailto:chill@herber-hill.com
    
    My two desktop machines are both SMP. I can't justify using them as UP and last I checked, SMP on OpenBSD was in its infancy.
    
    Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to do coding on the level needed, so really can't help out. Any one know the status of SMP on OpenBSD? The openbsd-smp mail list is VERY quiet.

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