I'm a very experienced Gentoo Linux user, but new to FreeBSD. I know there's been a lot of discussion about the openoffice package and that there's an ftp site at ooopackages.good-day.net where I can manually download a tar file and install it with pkg_add.
But sysinstall is suggested as the easy way to install a package and so I thought I'd try it, using the Configure->Packages->FTP option. When I choose an ftp site (e.g., ftp7.us.freebsd.org), I find that there are four openoffice packages listed under 'Editors'. Attempting to install any one of the version 3 series results in a series of error messages regarding failure to install dependent packages, such as pcre-7.7_1, glib-2.16.5, gamin-0.1.9_2, etc. Trying to install abiword the same results in similar errors. I've tried this both on an amd64 and i386 system with the same problems. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong here, but I'm at a loss at this point. Yes, I have other options (building OO via the port or downloading from the above-mentioned ftp site), but I'd like to solve my inability to install packages with sysinstall/ftp.
/Don Allen
But sysinstall is suggested as the easy way to install a package and so I thought I'd try it, using the Configure->Packages->FTP option. When I choose an ftp site (e.g., ftp7.us.freebsd.org), I find that there are four openoffice packages listed under 'Editors'. Attempting to install any one of the version 3 series results in a series of error messages regarding failure to install dependent packages, such as pcre-7.7_1, glib-2.16.5, gamin-0.1.9_2, etc. Trying to install abiword the same results in similar errors. I've tried this both on an amd64 and i386 system with the same problems. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong here, but I'm at a loss at this point. Yes, I have other options (building OO via the port or downloading from the above-mentioned ftp site), but I'd like to solve my inability to install packages with sysinstall/ftp.
/Don Allen