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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5 | Download location (FTP): <ulink url="&openoffice-download-ftp;"/>
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6 | Version used: &openoffice-version;
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7 | Package size: &openoffice-size;
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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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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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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 <ulink url="http://www.courtesan.com/mktemp">mktemp</ulink>
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20 | openoffice will utilize:
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21 | ant
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22 | </screen>
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23 |
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24 | <para>Download the General Polygon Clipper Library from <ulink
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25 | url="ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/toby/gpc/gpc231.tar.Z"/>.</para>
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26 |
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27 | <para>Also download the various patches from <userinput><ulink url="&hfile-root;"/></userinput>.
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28 | The patches begin with openoffice-&openoffice-version;.
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29 | You will need most of the patches
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30 | except for the patches that activate the use the system installed versions
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31 | of packages (you need to select those based on your installation).</para>
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32 |
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33 | <para>The source tarball only contains English language help. A localized help
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34 | content file may be available at <ulink
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35 | url="http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/helpcontent/"/>.</para>
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36 |
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37 | <para>If you have difficulties in building openoffice, check out the
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38 | openoffice
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39 | hint for detailed information at <ulink
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40 | url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/"/>. The
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41 | hint also discusses installation of auxiliary software.
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42 | </para>
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43 | <!--
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44 | <note><para>There is a problem with the current version of OO on LFS.
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45 | The build and installation appears to be successful but no files are installed.
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46 | The cause is being investigated.</para></note>
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47 | -->
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48 | </sect2>
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