First, I am an absolute newbie.  I purchased the OpenBSD 4.0 cd's and got it
loaded and running and succesfully added the Samba and KDE packages.
Installing OpenOffice and getting mail working are my next two projects with
it. I am running an i386 machine with a 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon processor.

To load OpenOffice with linux emulation I went to
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/openoffice_on_openbsd.html
"Running OpenOffice on OpenBSD"

First, edit /etc/fstab and add: /proc /proc procfs rw,linux 0 0
 I did that and everything was fine.

Next step:  Then create /proc and mount it: mkdir /proc
                                                               mount /proc

I got the directory made allright, in /, Was I supposed to create it in /etc?

Mount /proc gave me the following error:

fstab: /etc/fstab: Inappropriate file type or format
(line repeats once)

/proc is now full of numbers in mostly 5 character groups with with
cpuinfo,curproc,meminfo, and self on the right hand side of the numbers.  It
looks like a table.

I would cut and paste but I do not have mail set up yet.  I am a newbie so
every step is hard and I wanted OpenOffice first.

Working on the assumption that mount /proc worked, even with the error
message, I continue on.

I get all done and have it installed in /opt/openoffice.org2.1

Where do I go to start it and how do I get it into applications on the K Menu?

I don't have a Start OpenOffice.org icon or anything.

Please and thank you.l

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hi Robert,

i followed this & found openoffice somewhat unreliable under linux 
emulation. i believe there'll be an openoffice package in 4.1 which will 
be released in the near future. i've been using it under -current & it's 
really solid, thanks to a lot of work from robert nagy.

if you're really starting from scratch it might be worth waiting for 
that to come out instead.

perhaps its worth Han changing his site to avoid leading people down the 
garden path, now we have a port in place.

a+
scorch

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Yes, done.


# Han

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I ran OpenOoffice on 3.9 ( because it was i386, my 4.0 is amd64 so no
Linux emulation )
using


In
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/

you will have

soffice, swriter, scalc, simpress, smath, sbase and s-whatever


If you know how to edit the K Menu then link them to these files.

In my FVWM I just added the following to get the Menu

====================================================================
AddToMenu MenuOpenOffice2       "MenuOpenOffice2" Title
+                       "&O. office"    Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice
+                       "&W. writer"    Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/swriter
+                       "&C. calc"      Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/scalc
+                       "&I. impress"   Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/simpress
+                       "&M. math"      Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/smath
+                       "&B. base"      Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/sbase

Kind Regards

Siju

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The *above* should read like *below*

======================================================================

AddToMenu MenuOpenOffice2       "MenuOpenOffice2" Title
+                       "&O. office"    Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice
+                       "&W. writer"    Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/swriter
+                       "&C. calc"      Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/scalc
+                       "&I. impress"   Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/simpress
+                       "&M. math"      Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/smath
+                       "&B. base"      Exec exec
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/sbase

========================================================================

Kind Regards

Siju

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Hmmm is OpenBSD able to run FreeBSD binaries? There is a binary build
of OOo2.1 for FreeBSD on the OOo website.

What about /usr/ports/editor/openoffice?

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