| [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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| [c4f1401] | 18 | <xref linkend="db"/>, <xref linkend="STLport"/>, and <xref linkend="which"/>.
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| [e3f4d3e] | 19 | openoffice will utilize:
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| [03cbf55] | 20 | ant
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| [b6f200a] | 21 | </screen>
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| 22 |
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| [b77b166f] | 23 | <para>Download the General Polygon Clipper Library from <ulink
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| [df106b1] | 24 | url="ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/toby/gpc/gpc231.tar.Z"/>.</para>
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| [b6f200a] | 25 |
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| [e3f4d3e] | 26 | <para>Also download the various patches from <userinput><ulink url="&hfile-root;"/></userinput>.
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| [c4f1401] | 27 | The patches begin with openoffice-&openoffice-version;.</para>
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| [b6f200a] | 28 |
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| [90c4b57d] | 29 | <para>The source tarball only contains English language help. A localized help
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| 30 | content file may be available at <ulink
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| 31 | url="http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/helpcontent/"/>.</para>
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| 32 |
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| [c4f1401] | 33 | <!--
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| [b6f200a] | 34 | <para>If you have difficulties in building openoffice, check out the
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| 35 | openoffice
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| 36 | hint for detailed information at <ulink
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| [41ece9f] | 37 | url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/"/>. The
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| [b77b166f] | 38 | hint also discusses installation of auxiliary software.
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| [b6f200a] | 39 | </para>
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| [7630f6e] | 40 | <note><para>There is a problem with the current version of OO on LFS.
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| 41 | The build and installation appears to be successful but no files are installed.
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| 42 | The cause is being investigated.</para></note>
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| [df106b1] | 43 | -->
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| [b6f200a] | 44 | </sect2>
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