OpenOffice2 package

[Kevin C. Smith]

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 22:14 -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:10:49AM +0100, spamse wrote:
> > I am keen to get OpenOffice 2 up and running on my machine. I realise
> > it is still in beta, but I have used it on Windows and it is quite
> > slick. I am having problems getting the packages. Any clues? (see
> > below)
> 
> does anyone know whether the current packages are compiled with java
> support?  Much more of OOo relies on java in version 2.0...  
> 
> matt
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I believe they are not. Since java is not "free".
I agree with this position and at the same time would like to see
the java included to get the full functionality. It's a tough one.

I read somewhere that there is an attempt to get Openoffice to compile
with gcj, however I don't know how it is going to date.
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Kevin C. Smith