Yeah, that's really ugly, and not something you want to be typing every time you want to use. usr/compat/linux/bin/sh /usr/compat/linux/opt/2.0/program/soffice & That's it, is installed and ready to go. By creating a symbolic link to "/var/tmp", the "tmp" directory used by normal FreeBSD apps, we've avoided this pitfall. If you do not do this, will create a "tmp" directory at "/usr/compat/linux/tmp", but due to a permissions error you will be unable to save changes from within. Before we run it, however, there's one last thing we have to set up. should now be installed at "/usr/compat/linux/opt/2.0". This will display something very ugly that anyone who's ever used Red Hat Linux will be familiar with. rpm file, or you can just leave them all. If there is a particular component/feature that you know you don't want, you can delete that individual. If you do an 'ls', you'll see about 25 files ending with the extension ".rpm".
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This will extract the install files to /usr/compat/linux/usr doing an 'ls' should reveal the following newly created directory: "OOA680_m1_native_packed-1_en-US.8990".Ĭd OOA680_m1_native_packed-1_en-US.8990/RPMS/ Mv OOo_2.0.1_LinuxIntel_ /usr/compat/linux/usr The file that we downloaded from should be named something like "OOo_2.0.1_LinuxIntel_", which we'll use in the following example. Now that we have Linux support, it's time to install. To automatically load this module each time we start up our system, we need to add a line to /boot/nf: If not, run the following command as root: If you have this line, then you already have the Linux kernel module loaded. (Yes, we're downloading the Linux version of ). Fear not, there is a way to get on AMD64.įirst, go to click on the "Download " link, and select the Linux (x86) version. (On FreeBSD, java is also available only for i386-so much for being the cross-platform standard). In spite of its heavy use of java, -2.0 is only available for i386, i.e. Installing on AMD64 Installing on AMD64