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From: Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lack of openoffice and firefox binary for ppc
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:59:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <453E000D.5050709@exceedtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610241327.02015.stefi@geohidroterv.hu>

Stefán István wrote:
> Hello!
> What is the reason of the lack of binary packages of openoffice and firefox 
> for ppc based machines?
> Compiling oo takes a very long time, and on my machine it even ends with a 
> segmentation fault, so I couldn't install oo at all. In other ppc based 
> distroes I saw binary oo packages.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Istvan
> 

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a binary or not.  May be worth looking into though.

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.html

Hope that will help.  That is a ugly beast to compile.  It is a great
test of your hardware though.  If it is weak, OOo compiles will break
it.  :-(

Dale

:-)  :-)
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-24 11:27 [gentoo-user] lack of openoffice and firefox binary for ppc Stefán István
2006-10-24 11:59 ` Dale [this message]
2006-10-24 12:06   ` Stefán István
2006-10-24 12:29     ` Dale
2006-10-24 12:13 ` Neil Bothwick

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