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Old 17th June 2008
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Originally Posted by corey_james View Post
There is no official package but good-day.net provide a binary package for many versions of FreeBSD and many version of OpenOffice.
No official package? That depends how you define official. The OpenOffice page refers you to the FreeBSD ports tree, which I would take as official. Try:
Code:
pkg_add -r openoffice.org-2
In response to those who mention the benefits of compiling it yourself, I will say that I also am a die-hard compiler. However, my current desktop system is fairly dated and there are only 2 things that I use pre-compiled binaries for, which are Firefox and OpenOffice. These are two very-large compiles. Upgrades overnight at one thing, but if I urgently need to install or upgrade for a new feature, a package is the only choice.
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