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

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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Oh, um er, right. All that stuff is another distro. I'm an equal opportunity 
newbie,
and its making me crazier than usual.

And I guess I got over-impressed with the opening screen, which says 2.0.
I don't have admin priviliges there, and never asked what the package 
version is.

I'll try your formula and see what happens.

++ kevin

On 9/7/05, Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 1.9which 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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