This is not to disparage the efforts of the Good Day maintainer in making FreeBSD OpenOffice packages available to the public, but if you want the current version of OpenOffice, or there is no Good Day package available and you don't want to wait for it to compile, here is a quick alternative.įirst, go to click on the 'Download ' link, and select the Linux (x86) version.

While it is true that Good Day occasionally has FreeBSD OpenOffice packages available, the packages are often outdated and sometimes (early January 2007) not available at all.

(A recent attempt to compile version 2.1.0 failed with a compiler error about 40 hours into the process). With the availability of a FreeBSD-native version of, you might ask 'why would I want to install the Linux version?' While there are plenty of reasons, one very good one in my opinion is the incredible amount of time it takes to compile OpenOffice! On my IBM ThinkPad i Series 1300 (700 MHz Intel Celeron), it once took me 50+ hours to compile the behemoth.

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