%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ LibreOffice LibreOffice is a full-featured office suite. It is largely compatible with Microsoft Office and is descended from OpenOffice.org. &lfs10_checked; Package Information Core Download: Core Download MD5 sum: &libreoffice-core-md5sum; Core Download size: &libreoffice-core-size; Estimated disk space required: &libreoffice-buildsize; Estimated build time: &libreoffice-time; Additional Downloads Around 80 smallish tarballs and zip files will be downloaded during the build. If you have not downloaded one or more of the following, they too will also be downloaded during the build. Dictionaries: Dictionaries MD5 sum: &libreoffice-dict-md5sum; Dictionaries size: &libreoffice-dict-size; Help Files: Help Files MD5 sum: &libreoffice-help-md5sum; Help Files size: &libreoffice-help-size; Translations: Translations MD5 sum: &libreoffice-translations-md5sum; Translations size: &libreoffice-translations-size; LibreOffice Dependencies Required , , , , and Recommended Most of these packages are recommended because if they're not installed, the build process will compile and install its own (often older) version, with the side effect of increasing build and installed disk space and build time. , , , , , , , , , (clang is preferred for rendering with skia), , , , , , , , , , , , and , , , , , (if connecting to an LDAP server), , , , , and Optional , , , , (not relevant if using --disable-odk), , , , , , or MySQL, , , , , , , , Apache Commons Codec, Apache Commons HttpClient, Apache Commons Lang, Apache Commons Logging, BeanShell, CoinMP, Cppunit, Firebird, glyphy, Gnome VFS, hamcrest, Hunspell, Hyphen, iwyu, junit4, libabw, libcdr, libcmis, libebook, libexttextcat, libfreehand, liblangtag, libmspub, libmwaw, libodfgen, libpagemaker, librevenge (WordPerfect Document importer), libvisio, libwpd, libwpg, libwps, lp_solve, mdds, MyThes, OpenCOLLADA, Orcus, SystemTap, and VIGRA There are many optional dependencies not listed here. They can be found in download.lst (source directory). User Notes: Unlike the other packages, we assume that you have not yet unpacked the package. This is because the --no-overwrite-dir switch is needed in case you unpack as the root user. tar -xf libreoffice-&libreoffice-dlversion;.tar.xz --no-overwrite-dir && cd libreoffice-&libreoffice-dlversion; If you have downloaded the dictionaries, help and translations tarballs, create symlinks to them from the source directory so they won't get downloaded again: install -dm755 external/tarballs && ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-dictionaries-&libreoffice-dlversion;.tar.xz external/tarballs/ && ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-help-&libreoffice-dlversion;.tar.xz external/tarballs/ && ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-translations-&libreoffice-dlversion;.tar.xz external/tarballs/ During the build process, some packages will be downloaded (including the ones listed as recommended and optional dependencies) if they are not present on the system. Because of this, build time may vary from the published time more than usual. Due to the large size of the package, you may prefer to install it in /opt, instead of /usr. Depending on your choice, replace <PREFIX> by /usr or by /opt/libreoffice-&libreoffice-dlversion;: export LO_PREFIX=<PREFIX> Locales "fr" and "en-GB", you will find below, are just examples; you should change them to suit your needs - you might want to read the "Command Explanations", further below, before proceeding. If you set the ACLOCAL environment variable to support installing Xorg in /opt, you will need to unset it for this package. Prepare LibreOffice for compilation by running the following commands: sed -e "/gzip -f/d" \ -e "s|.1.gz|.1|g" \ -i bin/distro-install-desktop-integration && sed -e "/distro-install-file-lists/d" -i Makefile.in && sed -i 29a\ '\\t\t&&sed -i "s/TRUE/true/g" src/lib/libcdr_utils.cpp \\' \ external/libcdr/ExternalProject_libcdr.mk && sed -i 30a\ '\\t\t&&sed -i "s/TRUE/true/g" src/lib/EBOOKCharsetConverter.cpp \\' \ external/libebook/ExternalProject_libebook.mk && ./autogen.sh --prefix=$LO_PREFIX \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-vendor=BLFS \ --with-lang='fr en-GB' \ --with-help \ --with-myspell-dicts \ --without-junit \ --without-system-dicts \ --disable-dconf \ --disable-odk \ --enable-release-build=yes \ --enable-python=system \ --with-jdk-home=/opt/jdk \ --with-system-apr \ --with-system-boost \ --with-system-clucene \ --with-system-curl \ --with-system-epoxy \ --with-system-expat \ --with-system-glm \ --with-system-gpgmepp \ --with-system-graphite \ --with-system-harfbuzz \ --with-system-icu \ --with-system-jpeg \ --with-system-lcms2 \ --with-system-libatomic_ops \ --with-system-libpng \ --with-system-libxml \ --with-system-neon \ --with-system-nss \ --with-system-odbc \ --with-system-openldap \ --with-system-openssl \ --with-system-poppler \ --with-system-postgresql \ --with-system-redland \ --with-system-serf \ --with-system-zlib The instructions below will only build the package without running any unit tests. If you prefer to run the unit tests, replace make build-nocheck with make build or (as a regular user only) just make, but do not be surprised if a unit test fails right at the end of the build and breaks it. Build the package: make build-nocheck Now, as the root user: make distro-pack-install If installed in /opt/libreoffice-&libreoffice-dlversion; some additional steps are necessary. Issue the following commands as the root user: if [ "$LO_PREFIX" != "/usr" ]; then # This symlink is necessary for the desktop menu entries ln -svf $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice && # Set up a generic location independent of version number ln -sfv libreoffice-&libreoffice-dlversion; /opt/libreoffice # Icons mkdir -vp /usr/share/pixmaps for i in $LO_PREFIX/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/*; do ln -svf $i /usr/share/pixmaps done && # Desktop menu entries for i in $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/*; do ln -svf $i /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-$(basename $i) done && # Man pages for i in $LO_PREFIX/share/man/man1/*; do ln -svf $i /usr/share/man/man1/ done unset i fi If you have installed , and you wish to update the MIME database, issue, as the root user: update-desktop-database The suite and main modules can be started from the menu. From a terminal, the suite can be started with libreoffice command and the modules with libreoffice --<module> command, respectively, where <module> is one of base, calc, draw, impress, math, web, or writer. Modules cannot be started using their shell starting script names (see "Installed Programs", below), if LO_PREFIX is other than /usr, unless the $LO_PREFIX/bin directory is appended to the PATH. sed -e ...: The first sed prevents compression of the manual pages, the second one prevents the install from failing, and the third one allows the build to use poppler-0.86.1 and later. sed -i "s/TRUE/true/" ...: These three sed commands fix breakage caused by ICU-68.1 removing a macro. The third sed is for a file within libreoffice, the first two are for packages downloaded during the build and amend '.mk' files for the external projects (the source tarballs are unpacked during the build). --with-vendor=BLFS: This switch sets BLFS as the vendor which is mentioned when you click "About" from the Help menu on the toolbar. --with-lang='fr en-GB': This switch sets what languages to support. To list several languages, separate them with a space. For all languages, use --with-lang=ALL. Note that the translations file is not needed and won't be downloaded if using only en_US as a language. For a list of the available languages, look in solenv/inc/langlist.mk. --with-help: Without this switch, the help files are not built. --with-jdk-home=/opt/jdk: This parameter will silence a warning that the configure script attempted to find JAVA_HOME automatically (even though that is passed in the environment). Omit this if you disabled java. --with-myspell-dicts: This switch adds myspell dictionaries to the LibreOffice installation set. --with-system-boost: This switch enables using system boost. From time to time, recent versions of boost break the build of libreoffice. In this case, it is possible to use the bundled copy of boost, by removing this flag. --disable-dconf: This switch disables compiling LibreOffice with the GNOME DConf configuration system support. --without-junit: This switch disables the tests for the deprecated HSQLDB driver which is written in Java. --without-system-dicts: This switch disables the use of dictionaries from system paths so that the ones installed by this package are used. --disable-odk: This switch disables installing the office development kit. Remove if you want to develop a LibreOffice based application. --enable-release-build=yes: This switch enables a Release Build. LibreOffice can be built as a Release Build or as a Developer Build, because their default installation paths and user profile paths are different. Developer Build displays the words "Dev" and "Beta" in several places (e.g, menu and splash screen). --enable-python=system: This switch tells LibreOffice to use the system installed Python 3 instead of the bundled one. --with-system-*: These switches prevent LibreOffice from trying to compile its own versions of these dependencies. If you've not installed some of the dependencies, remove the corresponding switches. make distro-pack-install: this does a normal install, but if you add a DESTDIR environment variable it will also install a lot of (text) gid_Module_* files in the DESTDIR, to help distributions which want to break the package into parts. --with-parallelism=<count>: This switch tells LibreOffice to use <count> CPU cores to compile in parallel. (Do not include literal angle brackets.) The default is to use all available cores on the system. --disable-cups: Use this switch if you don't need printing support. --disable-dbus: Use this switch if you've not installed D-Bus-1.8.0 or later. It also disables Bluetooth support and font install via PackageKit. --disable-firebird-sdbc: By default, the ability to connect to a firebird database is enabled. Add this switch if you do not need that feature. --disable-gstreamer-1-0: Use this switch if you have not installed . --disable-postgresql-sdbc: This switch disables compiling LibreOffice with the ability to connect to a PostgreSQL database. Use it if you have not installed PostgreSQL and you do not want LibreOffice to compile its bundled copy. --disable-skia: Use for rendering instead of skia. --enable-gtk3-kde5: This switch allows the Visual Class Library, which is responsible for widgets, to be built with KF5 file dialogs if GTK+-3, Qt5 and Plasma are all available. --enable-lto: This switch will enable Link Time Optimization, which results in slightly smaller libraries (about 40 MB). This is said to make LibreOffice programs load faster (and possibly run faster, e.g. when recalculating a spreadsheet). On an 8-core machine with 16GB of memory, the difference in compile times was minimal, but an extra 2GB was used for the work files. On machines with fewer processors or a lack of memory, the compile might be much slower. --without-java: This switch disables Java support in LibreOffice. Java is needed for the deprecated HSQLDB driver, which allows reading databases created by other programs or in earlier versions of libreoffice base. --without-fonts: LibreOffice includes a number of third-party TrueType fonts. If you have already installed some or all of the same fonts, you may prefer to use the system versions. --enable-kf5: Builds with KDE/Plasma integration. If and/or are not installed in /usr, the include and library directories must be specified in QT5INC, QT5LIB, KF5INC, and KF5LIB, respectively. --enable-evolution2: Enables support for Evolution address books through Evolution Data Server. Note that Evolution Data Server must be installed for this feature to function. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directory libreoffice, lobase, localc, lodraw, loffice, lofromtemplate, loimpress, lomath, loweb, lowriter, soffice and unopkg; several programs under $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/program several libraries under $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/program $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice Short Descriptions libreoffice (or soffice) is the main libreofice suite (symlink to $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice). libreoffice-suite lobase is the database manager module shell starting script. lobase localc is the spreadsheet module shell starting script. localc lodraw is the vector graphics editor and diagramming tool module shell starting script. lodraw loimpress is the (PowerPoint) presentations editor and displayer module shell starting script. loimpress lomath is the mathematical formula editor module shell starting script. lomath loweb is the HTML editor module shell starting script. loweb lowriter is the word processor module shell starting script. lowriter unopkg is a tool to manage LibreOffice extensions from the command line. unopkg