source: xsoft/suites/openoffice.xml@ 91cb43ad

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  <!ENTITY openoffice-download-http "http://download.openoffice.org/&openoffice-version;/source.html">
  <!ENTITY openoffice-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/openoffice/stable/&openoffice-version;/OOo_&openoffice-version;_src.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY openoffice-md5sum        "a68933afc2bf432d11b2043ac99ba0aa">
  <!ENTITY openoffice-size          "263 MB">
  <!ENTITY openoffice-buildsize     "5.7 GB">
  <!ENTITY openoffice-time          "117 SBU">
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<sect1 id="openoffice" xreflabel="OpenOffice-&openoffice-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="openoffice.html" ?>

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

  <title>OpenOffice-&openoffice-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="openoffice">
    <primary sortas="a-OpenOffice">OpenOffice</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para><application>OpenOffice</application> is an office suite, the
    open source sibling of <application>StarOffice</application>.</para>

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch for use with gcc-&gcc-version;: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/OOo_&openoffice-version;-gcc4-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch for use with NPTL: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/OOo_&openoffice-version;-nptl-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch for use  with
        <application>JDK</application>-&jdk-src-version;: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/OOo_&openoffice-version;-jdk_1.5-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch for use with pkgconfig-0.17 and greater:
        <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/OOo_&openoffice-version;-pkgconfig_0.17-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Optional patch if
        <application>Linux-PAM</application>-&linux-pam-version; is not
        installed: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/OOo_&openoffice-version;-no_pam-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>

<!--  Will be added after patch header is corrected.
      <listitem>
        <para>Optional patch if building against the system installed
        <application>Firefox</application>: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/OOo_&openoffice-version;-xmlsec_no_mozilla-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
-->
      <listitem>
        <para>Required update for use with
        <application>JDK-&jdk-src-version;</application>.  <ulink
        url="ftp://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/svn/b/bsh-2.0b4-src.tar.bz2"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Optional download if not using the system
        <application>Mozilla</application>
<!--        or <application>Firefox</application>  -->
        browser.  <ulink
        url="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/source/mozilla-source-1.7.5.tar.gz"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">OpenOffice Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="apache-ant"/>,
    <xref linkend="libidl"/>,
    <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
    <application>Perl Modules</application>
    <xref linkend="perl-xml-parser"/> and
    <xref linkend="perl-archive-zip"/>,
    <xref linkend="tcsh"/>,
    <xref linkend="unzip"/>,
    <xref linkend="which"/>, and
    <xref linkend="zip"/>.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="cups"/>,
    <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>,
    <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
    <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
    <xref linkend="gnome-vfs"/>,
    <xref linkend="libart_lgpl"/>,
    <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
    <xref linkend="libtiff"/>, and
    <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="curl"/>,
    <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>,
    <xref linkend="mozilla"/>,
<!--
    or <xref linkend="firefox"/>,
-->
    <xref linkend="nas"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.webdav.org/neon/">neon-0.25.4</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="python"/>,
    <xref linkend="sane"/>, and
    <xref linkend="unixodbc"/>.</para>

  </sect2>

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

    <para>Apply all of the downloaded patches:</para>

<screen><userinput>for PATCH in ../OOo_&openoffice-version;-*.patch
    do patch -Np1 -i ${PATCH}
done</userinput></screen>

    <para>Copy the <application>Beanshell</application> TAR ball into the
    source tree and uncompress it:</para>

<screen><userinput>cp ../bsh-2.0b4-src.tar.bz2 beanshell/download/ &amp;&amp;
bzip2 -d beanshell/download/bsh-2.0b4-src.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>

    <para>If not using the system-installed <application>Mozilla</application>
    or <application>Firefox</application>, copy the
    <application>Mozilla</application> source TAR ball into the source
    tree:</para>

<screen><userinput>cp ../mozilla-source-1.7.5.tar.gz moz/download/</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you want to optimize the build, edit the appropriate makefile in
    <filename>solenv/inc/</filename> and add the desired optimization
    flags to the <envar>CFLAGSOPT</envar> variable. The makefiles are arch
    specific, for instance edit <filename>solenv/inc/unxlngi6.mk</filename>
    for i686.  Some users have reported problems with 
    <option>-fomit-frame-pointer</option>. The best option is to not use any 
    custom optimizations. The following command removes an incorrect 
    <option>-mcpu</option> option in several of the makefiles:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/^ARCH_FLAGS\*=/d' solenv/inc/unx{lngi{4,5,6},fbsdi}.mk</userinput></screen>

<!-- To be removed before final release -->

    <note><para>If building against the system Mozilla<!-- or Firefox-->,
    a change may be required to the installed headers.  The following commands
    will make the change only if it is necessary.</para></note>

<!--    <para>Mozilla:</para> -->
<screen role="root"><userinput>cd /usr/include/mozilla-&mozilla-version; &amp;&amp;
grep "xptinfo_enum_1" xpcom/xptinfo.h || \
    sed -i 's@enum@enum xptinfo_enum_1@' xpcom/xptinfo.h</userinput></screen>

<!--    <para>Firefox:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>cd /usr/include/firefox-&firefox-version; &amp;&amp;
grep "xptinfo_enum_1" xpcom/xptinfo.h || \
    sed -i 's@enum@enum xptinfo_enum_1@' xpcom/xptinfo.h</userinput></screen>
-->
<!-- End TBR -->

    <para>Configure <application>OpenOffice</application> using the following
    commands:</para>

<!--  To be added after xmlsec_no_mozilla patch header is corrected
    <note><para>If you intend to use the system-installed
    <application>Mozilla</application> or
    <application>Firefox</application>, replace the
    <parameter> - - enable-build-mozilla</parameter> switch with
    <parameter>- -with-system-mozilla</parameter>.  Additionally for
    <application>Firefox</application>, add the
    <parameter>- -with-firefox</parameter> switch. You will also be
    unable to use a <application>Thunderbird</application> address
    book as a data source if built against
    <application>Firefox</application>.</para></note>
-->

    <note><para>If you intend to use the system
    <application>Mozilla</application>, replace the
    <parameter>--enable-build-mozilla</parameter> switch with
    <parameter>--with-system-mozilla</parameter>.</para></note>

<screen><userinput>cd config_office/ &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/opt/openoffice-2.0.0 \
    --enable-libart --enable-libsn \
    --disable-fontooo --without-fonts \
    --with-system-stdlibs --with-system-freetype \
    --with-system-zlib --with-system-jpeg \
    --with-system-expat --with-system-libxml \
    --with-system-curl --enable-build-mozilla \
    --with-build-version=BLFS \
    --with-package-format=native --disable-binfilter &amp;&amp;
cd ..</userinput></screen>

    <para><application>OpenOffice</application> fails to compile if
    <command>umask</command> is set to something exotic. The build can also
    fail if the <envar>LANG</envar> or <envar>LC_ALL</envar> environment
    variables are set. Use the following commands to change your
    environment accordingly:</para>

<screen><userinput>umask 0022 &amp;&amp;
unset LANG LC_ALL</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile <application>OpenOffice</application> using the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./bootstrap &amp;&amp;
. LinuxIntelEnv.Set.sh &amp;&amp;
dmake</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install <application>OpenOffice</application> as the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user with the
    following commands:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cd instsetoo_native/unxlngi6.pro/OpenOffice/\
install/en-US/linux-2.6-intel/buildroot/opt &amp;&amp;
cp -a -v openoffice.org2.0 /opt/openoffice-2.0.0</userinput></screen>

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>for appl in sbase scalc sdraw simpress smath soffice spadmin swriter
do
    ln -v -sf /opt/openoffice-2.0.0/program/$appl /usr/bin/$appl
done</userinput></screen>

    <para>The icons are not installed by default.  While still the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, install the icons
    with the following commands:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cd ../../../../../../../../sysui/desktop/icons &amp;&amp;
install -v -d /usr/share/icons/{HighContrast,hicolor,locolor} -m755 &amp;&amp;
cp -a -v HighContrast/*x* /usr/share/icons/HighContrast &amp;&amp;
cp -a -v hicolor/*x* /usr/share/icons/hicolor &amp;&amp;
cp -a -v locolor/*x* /usr/share/icons/locolor</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you have installed <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> and use
    <application>KDE</application>, there is no furthur configuration
    necessary.  If you use <application>Gnome</application>, you should copy
    the <filename>*.desktop</filename> files to
    <filename>/usr/share/applications</filename> with the following
    commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d /usr/share/applications -m 755 &amp;&amp;
cd /opt/openoffice-2.0.0/share/xdg/ &amp;&amp;
for appl in *.desktop
do
    sed -i '/Exec/d' $appl
    echo "Exec=/usr/bin/s`echo $appl | sed 's/.desktop//'`" >> $appl
    sed -i '/Icon/d' $appl
    echo "Icon=`echo $appl | sed 's/.desktop//'`" >> $appl
done &amp;&amp;
sed -i 's@bin/sprinteradmin@bin/spadmin@' printeradmin.desktop &amp;&amp;
cp -v *.desktop /usr/share/applications</userinput></screen>

    <para>Finally, if you'd like to edit <application>OpenOffice</application>
    documents directly from <application>Mozilla</application> or
    <application>Firefox</application>, create a symbolic link in your
    plugins directory to
    <filename>/opt/openoffice-2.0.0/program/libnpsoplugin.so</filename>.
    Additionally, you must enable the plugin from the
    <parameter>Internet Options</parameter> within any
    <application>OpenOffice</application> application.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>--enable-libart</parameter>: This switch forces the Use
    of libart instead of <application>gpc</application> for polygon
    clipping.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-libsn</parameter>: This switch enables the use
    of <application>startup-notification</application>.</para>

    <para><parameter>--disable-fontooo</parameter>: Use
    <application>Fontconfig</application> instead of FontOOo.</para>

    <para><parameter>--without-fonts</parameter>: Do not install Bitstream Vera
    fonts since they are already bundled with
    <application>X</application>.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-system-*</parameter>: Use the system libraries
    and programs instead of building the packagees included in the build
    tree.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-build-mozilla</parameter>: Build the in-tree
    <application>Mozilla</application> suite.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-build-version=BLFS</parameter>:
    Appends "BLFS" to the end of the version string.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-package-format=native</parameter>: This switch
    disables the build of <application>RPM</application> packages.</para>

    <para><parameter>--disable-binfilter</parameter>: This switch disables the
    build of legacy <application>StarOffice-5</application> import
    filters.</para>

<!--
    <para><parameter>- -with-firefox</parameter>: Enables the use of
    <application>Firefox</application> in place of the full
    <application>Mozilla</application> suite.  This will disable the use
    of a <application>Thunderbird</application> address book as a data
    source.</para>
-->

    <para><parameter>--disable-cups</parameter>: Disable the use of
    <application>cups</application> for printing.</para>

    <para><parameter>--disable-gnome-vfs</parameter>: Disable the use of 
    <application>Gnome Virtual File System</application> libraries.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-lang=<replaceable>[LANG]</replaceable></parameter>:
    Makes an install set for the desired language. ENUS is the default.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-dict=<replaceable>[LANG]</replaceable></parameter>:
    This switch installs dictionaries for the desired languages. ENUS is
    the default.</para>

    <para><command>./bootstrap</command>: Build the
    <application>dmake</application> utility required to complete the
    build.</para>

    <para><command>dmake</command>: Compile the package.</para>

    <para><command>for appl in *.desktop...</command>: Edit the *.desktop
    files for use with a standard BLFS system.</para>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>scalc, sdraw, simpress, smath, soffice, spadmin, and swriter.</seg>
        <seg><application>OpenOffice</application> libraries</seg>
        <seg>/opt/openoffice-2.0.0</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="sbase">
        <term><command>sbase</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><application>sbase</application> is a database
          application.</para>
          <indexterm zone="openoffice sbase">
            <primary sortas="b-sbase">sbase</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="scalc">
        <term><command>scalc</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><application>scalc</application> is a spreadsheet
          application.</para>
          <indexterm zone="openoffice scalc">
            <primary sortas="b-scalc">scalc</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="sdraw">
        <term><command>sdraw</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><application>sdraw</application> is a drawing
          application.</para>
          <indexterm zone="openoffice sdraw">
            <primary sortas="b-sdraw">sdraw</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="simpress">
        <term><command>simpress</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><application>simpress</application> is a presentation
          application.</para>
          <indexterm zone="openoffice simpress">
            <primary sortas="b-simpress">simpress</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

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

      <varlistentry id="soffice">
        <term><command>soffice</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><application>soffice</application> opens a base window with
          access to all <application>OpenOffice</application>
          applications.</para>
          <indexterm zone="openoffice soffice">
            <primary sortas="b-soffice">soffice</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="spadmin">
        <term><command>spadmin</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><application>spadmin</application> is the
          <application>OpenOffice</application> printer configuration
          utility.</para>
          <indexterm zone="openoffice spadmin">
            <primary sortas="b-spadmin">spadmin</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="swriter">
        <term><command>swriter</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><application>swriter</application> is a word processing
          application.</para>
          <indexterm zone="openoffice swriter">
            <primary sortas="b-swriter">swriter</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>