Comments | fayanora: Oh Nora, you are so quirky.

fayanora

Oh Nora, you are so quirky.

Sep 17, 2009 23:18

I'm trying to install an old version of OpenOffice to my laptop. I wanted to load the newest version that was compatible with my laptop (named Nora), which runs Mac OS X 10.3.9, and no matter what I searched for, the best information I could come up with was "X11" which is 10.2 and higher compatible. The other versions wouldn't say, except some ( Read more... )

apple, annoying stuff, laptop, computer

Comments 22

brockulfsen September 18 2009, 06:46:15 UTC

X11 is the windowing environment for *nix.

So, yes, it is huge. It has all the libraries and other stuff that let a program talk to a user in windows under a windows managing system (at least one comes with an X11 install)

fayanora September 18 2009, 06:53:24 UTC

WTF? So if it's a Windows program, why did my Apple laptop running OS X 10.3 say it needed X11?

...

Oh wait. Must've been cuz the first program was from the same site. Gah. I just want OpenOffice on my laptop! It has a program on it that reads and writes OpenOffice format as well as Word and others (I forget the name of it), but that program keeps crashing every time I try to run it. And even when it *was* working, it got the formatting wrong.

AbiWord! That's what it was called.

*Weeping with frustration*

brockulfsen September 18 2009, 07:03:13 UTC

It isn't an M$ Windows program, it is the unix equivalent of Windows running on top of DOS, X-Windows runs on *nix to provide services that do things like opening a window and drawing stuff in it to programs.

fayanora September 18 2009, 07:29:16 UTC

*Blank stare*

Okay, so not Windows, but some hard-to-understand uber-geeky thing I wouldn't have a hope in Hell of ever using. Gotcha.

Thread 6

kengr September 18 2009, 07:02:22 UTC

Go to : http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US

You want English (US) and Mac OS X PPC.

That'll get you version 2.4.0 which is apparently the latest version available for OS X on non-Intel Macs.

fayanora September 18 2009, 07:24:19 UTC

Yay! You're awesome! I love you! *HUG-GLOMP*

FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK fayanora September 18 2009, 08:12:34 UTC

Downloaded what you told me to, installed it, and it STILL won't work. Gives me that shit about X11 again.

Re: FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK kengr September 18 2009, 08:19:23 UTC

I googled:
mac os x ppc x11

This looks like a good place to start
http://crossfire.real-time.com/clients/macosx-ppc.html

Thread 9

(The comment has been removed)

fayanora September 18 2009, 11:56:22 UTC

I have kind of thought about putting Linux on my laptop, but I'm worried about losing functionality, of losing the programs already on it. And the one Linux-based OS I tried was a flaming piece of shit that didn't do anything it was supposed to. So I'm a bit wary.

(The comment has been removed)

fayanora September 19 2009, 00:15:40 UTC

LOL!

lord_caramac September 18 2009, 13:35:37 UTC

You might want to try NeoOffice - a modified OpenOffice which is easier to use on a Mac.

fayanora September 18 2009, 23:58:46 UTC

Will it work on an OS as old as OS X 10.3?

lord_caramac September 19 2009, 02:26:18 UTC

I'm using 10.4 on my old Powerbook G4, and it works fine there.

fayanora September 19 2009, 05:50:34 UTC

You wouldn't happen to have a file or files I could burn to CD to upgrade to 10.4, do you? I've been trying to upgrade since I got this thing.

Thread 5