glfs/xsoft/suites/openoffice/openoffice-intro.xml

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<title>Introduction to openoffice</title>

<screen>Download location (HTTP):       <ulink url="&openoffice-download-http;"/>
Download location (FTP):        <ulink url="&openoffice-download-ftp;"/>
Version used:                   &openoffice-version;
Package size:                   &openoffice-size;
Estimated Disk space required:  &openoffice-buildsize;
Estimated Build time:           &openoffice-buildtime;
Estimated Install size:         &openoffice-installsize;</screen>

<para>The openoffice is a office suite, the opensource sibling of
StarOffice.</para>

<screen>openoffice depends on:
<xref linkend="freetype2"/>, <xref linkend="xfree86"/>, <xref linkend="j2sdk"/>,
<xref linkend="zip"/>, <xref linkend="unzip"/>, <xref linkend="tcsh"/>,
<xref linkend="db"/>, <xref linkend="STLport"/>, <xref linkend="which"/>
and mktemp
openoffice will utilize:
ant
</screen>

<para>Dowload the General Polygon Clipper Library from <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/toby/gpc/gpc231.tar.Z"/>
</para>

<para>Also download the various patches from <userinput><ulink url="&hfile-root;"/></userinput>.
The patches begin with openoffice-&openoffice-version;.
You will need most of the patches
except for the patches that activate the use the system installed versions
of packages (you need to select those based on your installation).</para>

<para>The source tarball only contains English language help. A localized help
content file may be available at <ulink
url="http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/helpcontent/"/>.</para>

<para>If you have difficulties in building openoffice, check out the
openoffice
hint for detailed information at <ulink
url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/"/>. The
hint also discusses installation of auxillary software.
</para>

<note><para>There is a problem with the current version of OO on LFS.
The build and installation appears to be successful but no files are installed.
The cause is being investigated.</para></note>

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