Open Office in FreeBSD...Ok..so how does it install?

[RBUL]

So there's this cool program that I downloaded to my home file and unpacked nice and neatly. Why is it so frigging complicated to get it to install so that I can actually get some work done instead of jacking around with my operating system? Oh the joys of open source software! Anyway, I can see that it has been unzipped, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the lovely seagulls flying and an icon on my main menu. Forget telling me to type:

./ configure
make
make install

that's just wishfull thinking at this point.....and yes, I tried all this as root...and yes I ...RTFM!.....and no there are no man pages that are in plain English.....and yes I tried Open Office.org for instructions (good luck)...and yes I purchased the cd's to support our lovely community of eggheads.

Any pro's out there have the secret? Thank you in advance for not killing yourself while trying to learn all this nonsense.

[j79zlr]

uh, go to
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.0

and type in

make install clean

[JohnT]

If you look in the folder you you unpacked there should be a script to run...I cant remember , but I think it is either "doinstall.sh" or "install.sh" (something like that, view the "readme' for the correct syntax) Using the terminal "cd" into the "OO" directory and run that script. Preface the script name with a "./"....such as #./doinstall.sh.


<EDIT>Go HERE (http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html) and scroll down to the Linux install.......the word is "setup" rather than "doinstall".

Go HERE (http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide/index.html) to download single-user documention if you didn't get it with your download.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Of course, j79zlr's response is a good one, too. If you have a lot of disk space in your /usr partition, you can install it through ports. You will need upwards of 5 free GB of space.

Just do like j79zlr said: as root,
cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.0
make install clean

...and go to bed or something, because it's going to compile it from source. It took my 700mhz (OCed to 950mhz) with 256MB of RAM about a day and a half to finish.