source: xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml@ 4abd884

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY libreoffice-core-download-http
           "http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/&libreoffice-version;/libreoffice-core-&libreoffice-dlversion;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY libreoffice-core-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY libreoffice-core-md5sum        "6e88d3a83691cb8ee5081487c8345a6a">
  <!ENTITY libreoffice-core-size          "103 MB">
  <!ENTITY libreoffice-buildsize          "5.5 GB (450 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY libreoffice-time               "60 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="libreoffice" xreflabel="LibreOffice-&libreoffice-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="libreoffice.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>LibreOffice-&libreoffice-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="libreoffice">
    <primary sortas="a-LibreOffice">LibreOffice</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to LibreOffice</title>

    <para>
      <application>LibreOffice</application> is a full-featured office suite.
      It is largely compatible with <application>Microsoft Office</application>
      and is descended from <application>OpenOffice.org</application>.
    </para>

    &lfs72_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Core Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&libreoffice-core-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Core Download (FTP): <ulink url="&libreoffice-core-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Core Download MD5 sum: &libreoffice-core-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Core Download size: &libreoffice-core-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &libreoffice-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &libreoffice-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">LibreOffice Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="cups"/>,
      <xref linkend="curl"/> or <xref linkend="wget"/>,
      <xref linkend="gperf"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/> or <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
      <application>Perl Modules</application>
      <xref linkend="perl-archive-zip"/> and
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-parser"/>,
      <xref linkend="unzip"/>,
      <xref linkend="which"/> and
      <xref linkend="zip"/>.
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <note>
      <para>
        Most of these packages are recommended because if they're not installed,
        the build process will compile and install its own (often older)
        version. If you're using <application>GCC 4.7</application>, some of
        those older packages will fail to compile.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="boost"/>,
      <xref linkend="db"/>,
      <xref linkend="expat"/>,
      <xref linkend="gst-plugins-base"/>,
      <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
      <xref linkend="libgsf"/>,
      <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
      <xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
      <xref linkend="libxml2"/> and <xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
      <xref linkend="neon"/>,
      <xref linkend="nss"/>,
      <xref linkend="poppler"/>,
      <xref linkend="openssl"/> and
      <xref linkend="redland"/>.
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Hunspell</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="mysql"/>,
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/MyThes/">MyThes</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="postgresql"/>,
      <ulink url="http://sampleicc.sourceforge.net/">SampleICC</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/vigra">Vigra</ulink> and
      <xref linkend="zenity"/>.
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/libreoffice"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of LibreOffice</title>

    <warning>
      <para>
        Untaring the libreoffice-core-&libreoffice-dlversion; tarball as
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> has the curious effect of
        changing the ownership of the <emphasis>parent</emphasis> directory
        to a user with numerical id 11012 and with the permissions set to allow
        read, write and execute for that user only! If you untared as
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> in your home folder you
        could end up unable to log in again :/ If you untared it in
        <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> you would find your user
        account unable to access any file in
        <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>.
      </para>

      <para>
        You can avoid this unpleasantness by
        <emphasis>not</emphasis> untaring it as
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>. If you must untar it as
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> pass the option
        <option>--no-overwrite-dir</option> to tar. This is the default when you
        untar as a user but has to be passed as an option when untaring as
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:
      </para>
    </warning>

<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf libreoffice-core-&libreoffice-dlversion;.tar.xz --no-overwrite-dir &amp;&amp;
cd libreoffice-core-&libreoffice-dlversion;</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>LibreOffice</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr             \
             --disable-binfilter       \
             --disable-gconf           \
             --disable-mozilla         \
             --disable-odk             \
             --disable-postgresql-sdbc \
             --with-system-boost       \
             --with-system-cairo       \
             --with-system-curl        \
             --with-system-db          \
             --with-system-expat       \
             --with-system-gettext     \
             --with-system-icu         \
             --with-system-jpeg        \
             --with-system-libpng      \
             --with-system-libxml      \
             --with-system-neon        \
             --with-system-nss         \
             --with-system-openssl     \
             --with-system-poppler     \
             --with-system-redland     \
             --with-system-zlib        \
             --without-java            \
             --with-num-cpus=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) &amp;&amp;
./download                                                &amp;&amp;
mkdir -p ../libreoffice-downloads                         &amp;&amp;
cp src/*.{xz,gz,txt,zip,bz2,tgz,jar,dll,oxt} \
      src/*LICENSE* ../libreoffice-downloads              &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install                                 &amp;&amp;
SOFFICE=/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice &amp;&amp;
for program in base calc draw impress math writer
do
  echo '#!/bin/bash' > /usr/bin/${program}
  echo "exec ${SOFFICE} --nologo --${program} \"\${@}\"" >> /usr/bin/${program}
  chmod 755 /usr/bin/${program}
done          &amp;&amp;
unset SOFFICE &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv ../lib/libreoffice/program/spadmin /usr/bin/printeradmin &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv ../lib/libreoffice/program/unopkg /usr/bin               &amp;&amp;
cp sysui/desktop/man/{libreoffice,unopkg}.1 /usr/share/man/man1  &amp;&amp;
for res in 16 32 48 128 256
do
  mkdir -p /usr/share/icons/hicolor/${res}x${res}/{apps,mimetypes}
  cp sysui/desktop/icons/hicolor/${res}x${res}/apps/*.png \
    /usr/share/icons/hicolor/${res}x${res}/apps
  cp sysui/desktop/icons/hicolor/${res}x${res}/mimetypes/*.png \
    /usr/share/icons/hicolor/${res}x${res}/mimetypes
done &amp;&amp;
gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>
    
    <para>
      <option>--enable-gtk3</option>: Add this option if you've installed and
      want to use <application>Gtk+-3</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-gstreamer</option>: Add this option if you've not
      installed <xref linkend="gst-plugins-base"/>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-binfilter</option>: These "binfilters" enable
      <application>LibreOffice</application> to open legacy
      <application>Star Office</application> format documents. Compiling
      <application>binfilter</application> requires
      <application>Java</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-gconf</option>: Remove this option if you want to
      compile LibreOffice with GConf support.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-mozilla</option>: This option stops
      <application>LibreOffice</application> trying to compile an old version
      of <application>SeaMonkey</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-odk</option>: This option disables installing the
      office development kit. Remove this option if you want to develop a
      <application>LibreOffice</application> based application.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-postgresql-sdbc</option>: This option disables compiling
      LibreOffice with the ability to connect to a PostgreSQL database. If you
      would like LibreOffice to be able to connect to a PostgreSQL database
      remove this option. If you have installed PostgreSQL on your system and
      would like LibreOffice to use that rather than compile its own copy, add
      the option <option>--with-system-postgresql</option>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--with-system- ...</option>: These options prevent
      <application>LibreOffice</application> trying to compile its own
      versions of these dependencies. If you've not installed
      some of the dependencies, remove the corresponding option.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--with-num-cpus=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)</option>: This option
      tells <application>LibreOffice</application> to use all your CPUs to
      compile in parallel and speed up the build.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--with-lang="pt-BR"</option>: This option sets what languages to
      support. en-US is always included by default. To list several languages,
      separate them with a space. For all languages, use --with-lang=ALL
    </para>

    <para>
      For a list of the available languages, configure it --with-lang=ALL and
      then after you've run ./download:
      <command>ls translations/source</command>
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--without-java</option>: This option compiles
      <application>LibreOffice</application> without
      <application>Java</application> support.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--with-vendor=LFS-BLFS</option>: This option sets LFS-BLFS as the
      vendor which is mentioned when you click About on the toolbar.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>./download</command>: The build process runs the
      <command>download</command> script which downloads some 470 MB of
      tarballs. We run the download script to get it out of the way at the
      start so we can make a backup copy of the downloaded files.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>mkdir -p ../libreoffice-downloads;
      cp src/*.{xz,gz,txt,zip,bz2,tgz,jar,dll,oxt} src/*LICENSE*
      ../libreoffice-downloads</command>: this makes a backup copy
      of the downloaded files so you don't have to download them again if you
      decide to recompile <application>LibreOffice</application>. In that case,
      just start with:
      <command>mkdir src; cp ../libreoffice-downloads/* src</command>
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>for program in base calc draw impress math writer ...</command>:
      These commands create 6 simple shell scripts in
      <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> that can be used to launch
      <application>LibreOffice</application> in its various forms. If you like
      seeing the <application>LibreOffice</application> splash screen, remove
      the "--nologo" option.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>for res in 16 32 48 128 256 ...</command>: These commands copy
      various icons into the hicolor icon theme used by
      <application>Gtk+</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor</command>: This
      command rebuilds
      <filename>/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache</filename> to include
      the new icons.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring LibreOffice</title>

    <para>
      If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application>
      or <application>KDE</application> and want the programs to show up in the
      panel's menu, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
      create some simple desktop files:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -p /usr/share/applications &amp;&amp;
for program in base calc draw impress math writer
do echo "[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=${program^}
Comment=LibreOffice ${program^}
Icon=${program}
Exec=${program}
Categories=Office;Application;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false" > /usr/share/applications/${program}.desktop
done &amp;&amp;
echo "[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Printer Administration
Comment=LibreOffice Printer Administration
Icon=printeradmin
Exec=printeradmin
Categories=Office;Printing;Application;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false" > /usr/share/applications/printeradmin.desktop</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          base, calc, draw, impress, math,
          printeradmin and writer
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/lib/libreoffice
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="base">
        <term><command>base</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a database manager.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libreoffice base">
            <primary sortas="b-base">base</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="calc">
        <term><command>calc</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a spreadsheet program.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libreoffice calc">
            <primary sortas="b-calc">calc</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="draw">
        <term><command>draw</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a vector graphics editor and diagramming tool.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libreoffice draw">
            <primary sortas="b-draw">draw</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="impress">
        <term><command>impress</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            can edit and display powerpoint presentations.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libreoffice impress">
            <primary sortas="b-impress">impress</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="math">
        <term><command>math</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a mathematical formula editor.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libreoffice math">
            <primary sortas="b-math">math</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="printeradmin">
        <term><command>printeradmin</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a graphical interface to enable you to change your personal
            printing preferences, which are saved in
            <filename>~/.cups/lpoptions</filename>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libreoffice printeradmin">
            <primary sortas="b-printeradmin">printeradmin</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="unopkg">
        <term><command>unopkg</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a tool to manage <application>LibreOffice</application>
            extensions from the command line.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libreoffice unopkg">
            <primary sortas="b-unopkg">unopkg</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="writer">
        <term><command>writer</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a word processor.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libreoffice writer">
            <primary sortas="b-writer">writer</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>