Note: OpenOffice for MacOS X is not due until the spring.
Hi,
Announcing the release of the port of OpenOffice 613
(formerly Star Office) to PPC Linux.
Download Sites
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http://penguinppc.org/files/pub/openoffice/ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/ftp://penguinppc.org/pub/openoffice/
Changes From Open Office 609
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1. Works with the Blackdown JDK 1.3 now (select in the installer)
2. bridges code now functions and exceptions now work
3. Mysterious hangs on exit are now fixed.
4. False warning messages have been removed
5. An Xprt server is now supported automatically for printing
Install Instructions
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This thing is huge, you need probably 250 meg free at least.
tar -zxf oo613b_installer.tar.gz
cd installer_613
chown -R your_favorite_userid:your_favorite_group ./
The installer is graphical (use XFree86)
To install OpenOffice simply run the following command:
./setup
To run OpenOffice cd to your installation site and run
the following command:
./soffice
Source Code
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The source code is also available at the same download sites
along with a few late patches that are not part of the official
613 tree. If you are interested in building your own from source
or joining in the openoffice porting effort please see
http://porting.openoffice.org
BEFORE starting your build. WARNING: you need
the very latest toolchain from Franz Sirl, and lots and lots of
disk space and time (over 12 hours build time on my G3 400 machine
with 256M of ram).
Known Bugs and Issues
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1. This is a very experimental port and printing only works
if you have an XPRINT server running locally on your machine
(see XFree86 docs on how to use/setup an Xprint server)
2. Bug in some unused options like Broswer->Cache, and Bibliography
3. Still no spell checking
Credit
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This port is the work of numerous people who have helped
to make OpenOffice work on PPC Linux. The list of
contributors includes (in no particular order) Jason Stewart,
Rich Johnson, Scott Hutinger, Kevin Hendricks, Daniel Boelzle,
Philipp Lohmann, Sander Vesik, Bob Meader, and many others.
Also a special thanks to the original StarOffice team for
making such great software to begin with.
Thanks,
Kevin B. Hendricks
khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca
