| 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Introduction to <application>OpenOffice</application></title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <para>The <application>OpenOffice</application> is a office suite, the
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| 5 | Open Source sibling of <application>StarOffice</application>.</para>
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 8 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 9 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 10 | url="&openoffice-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 11 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 12 | url="&openoffice-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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| 13 | <listitem><para>Download size: &openoffice-size;</para></listitem>
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| 14 | <listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
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| 15 | &openoffice-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 16 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 17 | &openoffice-time;</para></listitem>
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| 18 | </itemizedlist>
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| 19 | </sect3>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <sect3><title><application>OpenOffice</application> dependencies</title>
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| 22 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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| 23 | <para><xref linkend="xfree86"/>, <xref linkend="j2sdk"/>,
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| 24 | <xref linkend="zip"/>, <xref linkend="unzip"/>, <xref linkend="tcsh"/>,
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| 25 | <xref linkend="which"/></para></sect4>
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| 26 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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| 27 | <para><xref linkend="Linux_PAM"/> and <ulink
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| 28 | url="http://ant.apache.org/">Apache Ant</ulink></para></sect4>
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| 29 | </sect3>
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| 30 | </sect2>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <sect2><title>Additional downloads</title>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para>Download the General Polygon Clipper Library from <ulink
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| 35 | url="ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/toby/gpc/gpc231.tar.Z"/>.</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para>Also download the various patches from <ulink url="&hfile-root;"/>.
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| 38 | The <filename>openoffice-&openoffice-version;-no-pam.patch</filename> is needed only if
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| 39 | Linux PAM is not installed. The <filename>openoffice-&openoffice-version;-no-mozab.patch</filename>
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| 40 | disables building of <application>Mozilla</application> Addressbook which causes build problems since OpenOffice
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| 41 | includes precompiled <application>Mozilla</application> libraries that
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| 42 | are incompatible with <acronym>LFS</acronym>. The
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| 43 | <filename>openoffice-&openoffice-version;-test-bin-loc.patch</filename> corrects the location where
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| 44 | the installation scripts look for the <command>test</command> executable.</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>The source tarball only contains English language help. A localized help
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| 47 | content file may be available at <ulink
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| 48 | url="http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/helpcontent/"/>.</para>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <!--
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| 51 | <para>If you have difficulties in building openoffice, check out the
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| 52 | openoffice
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| 53 | hint for detailed information at <ulink
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| 54 | url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/"/>. The
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| 55 | hint also discusses installation of auxiliary software.
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| 56 | </para>
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| 57 | <note><para>There is a problem with the current version of OO on LFS.
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| 58 | The build and installation appears to be successful but no files are installed.
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| 59 | The cause is being investigated.</para></note>
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| 60 | -->
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| 61 | </sect2>
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