Mac G5 PowerPC OpenOffice

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inxs
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Mac G5 PowerPC OpenOffice

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I really don't know where to start. I'm looking to find the latest version of OpenOffice that I can install on my Apple G5 Tower, which is has a PPC processor not an Intel processor. I've looked at doing a build on my machine to get latest but got a little lost. I don't mind doing a build, but need simple step by step to do the build.

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Re: Mac G5 PowerPC OpenOffice

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There is a detailed Building Guide at
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... _Guide_AOO

I am not certain of Mac PPC support. It may be that you will have to edit this into the codebase.

There is some discussion on PPC support at
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=56936
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Re: Mac G5 PowerPC OpenOffice

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inxs wrote:I really don't know where to start. I'm looking to find the latest version of OpenOffice that I can install on my Apple G5 Tower, which is has a PPC processor not an Intel processor. I've looked at doing a build on my machine to get latest but got a little lost. I don't mind doing a build, but need simple step by step to do the build.

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OOo 3.2 was the last version for PPC Macs. Here is a direct link to download it:
http://archive.services.openoffice.org/ ... _en-US.dmg
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