OpenOffice HOW-TO

While my server doesn't run X, I'll be creating another machine as a FreeBSD "user" machine, and that one will be running X. And I'll probably want to install OpenOffice.org, the Sun-supported freeware MSOffice compatible suite. It's a beast to install from ports (ie., via source), so here's a suggestion from Jerry McAllister on the -questions mailing list:

They have already built packages for FreeBSD that install just nicely.

Go to http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/

Pick the latest package that suits your situation
Download it to /usr/local and run pkg_add on the compressed file.

Then, to set it up, run /usr/local/OpenOffice1.1.0/program/soffice.
Note the OpenOffice1.1.0 will vary according to what version you
download and where you tell it to put the Openoffice files.

Put that directory in your path.

After that, soffice, swriter, etc will start what you want. It works
fine as helper utilities in your browser too.

////jerry