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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/7/05, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.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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