Re: Installing OpenOffice

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From: Ivo Andrejco
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 05:58

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In article <RmZTa.788$XI2.516320@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net>, Skip wrote:
> I'm trying to install OpenOffice 1.1 under Mandrake 8.0.
> 
> I'll cut a long story short and just say that I've figured out that I need 
> to install FreeType2 in order to be able to successfully install OpenOffice.
> 
> Can anybody provide a procedure (for dummies!) for installing FreeType2, 
> and then removing any traces of older versions of FreeType? I've tried 
> following the instructions in the README file (included in the FreeType 
> tarball), but that hasn't helped at all.
> 
> Thanks in advance

Try GOOGLE: Linux from scratch, and Beyond scratch or so, 
you'll find everything you need if you're building from source, 
otherwise procedure should be easy
Ivo

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From: Ivo Andrejco <ivo@pc.local>
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