Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: John <sorosj@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org binary for ppc
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:52:30
Message-Id: 44A18891.3050907@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org binary for ppc by Neil Bothwick
1 dang! that sux! how in the hell am I gonna get openoffice on my slow
2 333Mhz ppc with not even 1gig of free space?
3 Now what am I gonna tell my friend about linux being rula...phuhh
4 otherwise gentoo is at least 10 times faster on this ppc than ubuntu, so
5 gentoo sill rulz!
6
7 Neil Bothwick wrote:
8 > On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:24:30 -0500, John wrote:
9 >
10 >> The problem is that I dont have enough room on the hard disk to compile
11 >> openoffice.org, so I was wondering if there was any place I could
12 >> download a binary version for ppc.
13 >
14 > There isn't an official binary release. The last PPC version that OOo
15 > released was 1.1.2. It takes around 16 hours to compile 2.0.2 on my 1Ghz
16 > G4, so you'd be looking at days, even with disk space.
17 >
18 > Your options seem to be limited to
19 >
20 > 1) Plug in an external drive to use for $PORTAGE_TMPDIR
21 > 2) Find someone willing to compile a package with your USE and CFLAGS.
22 >
23 >

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