econti schrieb:
> Hi all
> I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran
>
> emerge -s openoffice
> and here is the result
>
> * app-office/openoffice
>    Latest version available: 2.4.0
>    Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>    Size of files: 247,060 kB
>    Homepage:    http://go-oo.org
>    Description:  OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite.
>    License:     LGPL-2
>
> * app-office/openoffice-bin
>    Latest version available: 2.4.0
>    Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>    Size of files: 1,149,284 kB
>    Homepage:    http://www.openoffice.org/
>    Description:  OpenOffice productivity suite
>    License:     LGPL-2
>
>
> Questions:
> 1 - the difference between openoffice and openoffice-bin
Openoffice has to be compiled by your self and though it is the the more
gentooious way. For me it rans faster, but takes a long time to compile.

Openoffice-bin, if you don't want or can wait for the compilation.
> 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB
> Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor?
Try emerge -p openoffice|genlop -pq

to query the http://gentoo.linuxhowtos.org/compiletimeestimator/


>
> :-(
>
> Bye
>
> emilio
>
>