[b6f200a] | 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Introduction to openoffice</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <screen>Download location (HTTP): <ulink url="&openoffice-download-http;"/>
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[03cbf55] | 5 | Download location (FTP): <ulink url="&openoffice-download-ftp;"/>
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[b6f200a] | 6 | Version used: &openoffice-version;
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| 7 | Package size: &openoffice-size;
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[ec8d42a] | 8 | Estimated Disk space required: &openoffice-buildsize;
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| 9 | Estimated Build time: &openoffice-buildtime;
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| 10 | Estimated Install size: &openoffice-installsize;</screen>
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[b6f200a] | 11 |
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| 12 | <para>The openoffice is a office suite, the opensource sibling of
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| 13 | StarOffice.</para>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <screen>openoffice depends on:
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[03cbf55] | 16 | <xref linkend="freetype2"/>, <xref linkend="xfree86"/>, <xref linkend="j2sdk"/>,
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| 17 | <xref linkend="zip"/>, <xref linkend="unzip"/>, <xref linkend="tcsh"/>,
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| 18 | <xref linkend="db"/>, <xref linkend="STLport"/>, <xref linkend="which"/>
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| 19 | and mktemp
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[e3f4d3e] | 20 | openoffice will utilize:
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[03cbf55] | 21 | ant
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[b6f200a] | 22 | </screen>
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| 23 |
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[b77b166f] | 24 | <para>Download the General Polygon Clipper Library from <ulink
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[b6f200a] | 25 | url="ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/toby/gpc/gpc231.tar.Z"/>
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| 26 | </para>
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| 27 |
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[e3f4d3e] | 28 | <para>Also download the various patches from <userinput><ulink url="&hfile-root;"/></userinput>.
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| 29 | The patches begin with openoffice-&openoffice-version;.
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[b02f257] | 30 | You will need most of the patches
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| 31 | except for the patches that activate the use the system installed versions
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| 32 | of packages (you need to select those based on your installation).</para>
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[b6f200a] | 33 |
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[90c4b57d] | 34 | <para>The source tarball only contains English language help. A localized help
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| 35 | content file may be available at <ulink
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| 36 | url="http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/helpcontent/"/>.</para>
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| 37 |
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[b6f200a] | 38 | <para>If you have difficulties in building openoffice, check out the
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| 39 | openoffice
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| 40 | hint for detailed information at <ulink
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[41ece9f] | 41 | url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/"/>. The
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[b77b166f] | 42 | hint also discusses installation of auxiliary software.
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[b6f200a] | 43 | </para>
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| 44 |
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[7630f6e] | 45 | <note><para>There is a problem with the current version of OO on LFS.
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| 46 | The build and installation appears to be successful but no files are installed.
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| 47 | The cause is being investigated.</para></note>
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[b6f200a] | 48 |
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| 49 | </sect2>
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