Re: [gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice:

[Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com>]

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On 9/7/05, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am using gentoo because I want to be able to compile the latest and 
> greatest.
> How odd it is that I can only find OpenOffice 1.1.4, where the FedoraCore
> machines at my school have had OpenOffice 2.0 all (Summer) term.
> 
> I've not done a lot with masked versions, but I do have universe, 
> multiverse and
> backports. I see no signs of 2.0.
> 
> How can this be, gen-too-ers? Surely, I'm missing something. What did I 
> mess up?
> 
> -- 
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
> 

Actually your Fedora boxes weren't running 2.0 they where running 1.9 which 
is the beta for 2.0. If you want to run that on Gentoo you need to add 
`app-office/openoffice-bin` to your /etc/portage/package.unmask and 
`app-office/openoffice-bin ~x86` to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file 
then emerge openoffice-bin. You didn't miss a thing, its just hard masked 
development. because it's not stable and it does crash often enough but its 
well worth the install.

Also as far as I know there is no such thing as universe, multiverse, and 
backports gor Gentoo. In any case good luck getting it running, once you get 
it unmasked its just as easy as the "real deal" (if you will).

-Mike

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SoftGroup Development Corporation

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