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diff --git a/office/LibreOffice/README b/office/LibreOffice/README index dc7ee5981e..3adeba09ef 100644 --- a/office/LibreOffice/README +++ b/office/LibreOffice/README @@ -1,100 +1,104 @@ -LibreOffice is a powerful office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools -let you unleash your creativity and grow your productivity. LibreOffice embeds -several applications that make it the most powerful Free & Open Source Office -suite on the market: Writer, the word processor, Calc, the spreadsheet -application, Impress, the presentation engine, Draw, our drawing and -flowcharting application, Base, our database and database frontend, -and Math for editing mathematics. +LibreOffice is a powerful office suite; its clean interface +and powerful tools let you unleash your creativity and grow your +productivity. LibreOffice embeds several applications that make it the +most powerful Free & Open Source Office suite on the market: Writer, +the word processor, Calc, the spreadsheet application, Impress, the +presentation engine, Draw, our drawing and flowcharting application, +Base, our database and database frontend, and Math for editing +mathematics. -This SlackBuild builds the entire project from its source code. In seeking a -fully functional LibreOffice, most optional features are included by default, -using internal versions of any external software components that may be needed. -This results in a very small number of directly required additional software -packages. +This SlackBuild builds the entire project from its source code. In +seeking a fully functional LibreOffice, most optional features are +included by default, using internal versions of any external software +components that may be needed. This results in a very small number of +directly required additional software packages. -However most of this additional software is also available as SBo SlackBuilds. -During configuration, the LibreOffice SlackBuild will detect any such packages -that are already installed and use them in preference to building its own -internal versions. Packages from SBo that will be use in this way are: - CoinMP cppunit glm libabw libcdr libcmis libe-book libeot libepubgen - libexttextcat libfreehand libmspub libmwaw libnumbertext liborcus - libpagemaker libqxp libnumbertext libstaroffice libtommath libwps libzmf - lpsolve mythes postgresql qt5 valgrind ucpp unixODBC avahi - libetonyek xmlsec vlc +However most of this additional software is also available as SBo +SlackBuilds. During configuration, the LibreOffice SlackBuild will +detect any such packages that are already installed and use them in +preference to building its own internal versions. Packages from SBo +that will be use in this way are: + CoinMP cppunit glm libabw libcdr libcmis libe-book libeot + libepubgen libexttextcat libfreehand libmspub libmwaw + libnumbertext liborcus libpagemaker libqxp libnumbertext + libstaroffice libtommath libwps libzmf lpsolve mythes postgresql + qt5 valgrind ucpp unixODBC avahi libetonyek xmlsec -Remember, these packages are not essential but entirely optional. If not found, -LibreOffice will simply build its own internal versions. +Remember, these packages are not essential but entirely optional. If +not found, LibreOffice will simply build its own internal versions. -Also keep in mind that any package from the above list which is detected and -used when building LibreOffice will most likely become a runtime dependency too -e.g. if avahi is detected and used at build time, it will also need to be -installed at run time. +Also keep in mind that any package from the above list which is +detected and used when building LibreOffice will most likely become +a runtime dependency too e.g. if avahi is detected and used at build +time, it will also need to be installed at run time. -Build time environment variables that may be set to vary features are as follows: -1. enable the experimental VLC avmedia backend (disabled by default) with: - VLC="yes" - This requires the vlc package (available from SBo) to be installed. +Build time environment variables that may be set to vary features are +as follows: +1. support additional languages by overriding the LOLANGS variable, + whose default setting is LOLANGS="de es fr id it ja nl vi zh-CN". + Note that en-US is always added to whatever LOLANGS is set. Thus + building with, for example, + LOLANGS="de" sh LibreOffice.SlackBuild + would build LibreOffice with support for german and US english + languages. Additionally, setting LOLANGS="ALL" will build in + support for all available languages. -2. disable kde4 support (enabled by default) with: - KDE4="no" +2. A number of Java Development Kits are suitable for building + LibreOffice. Since Slackware-15.0 and LiberOffice-7.3.1.3, the + default JDK is zulu-openjdk11. Other JDKs will probably work if + the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set appropriately in a file + in /etc/profile.d/, where this SlackBuild will search. -3. support additional languages by overriding the LOLANGS variable, whose - default setting is LOLANGS="de es fr id it ja nl vi zh-CN". Note that en-US - is always added to whatever LOLANGS is set. Thus building with, for example, - LOLANGS="de" sh LibreOffice - would build LibreOffice with support for german and US english languages. - Additionally, setting LOLANGS="ALL" will build in support for all available - languages. + It is also possible to build LibreOffice without any Java support + (with somewhat reduced capability in LO Base) by running: + JAVA=no sh LibreOffice.SlackBuild -4. A number of Java Development Kits are suitable for building LibreOffice. - The default JDK for this SlackBuild is openjdk7. Others may be chosen by - setting the JAVA environment variable when running the SlackBuild. Recognised - values are openjdk7 (the default, not explicitly required), openjdk8 and jdk - e.g. JAVA=jdk (to use SBo jdk package with Oracle binary version). Using an - alternate JDK will require presence of the appropriate package when building - LibreOffice. Since the apache-ant package is already required by openjdk7, - hence openjdk8, its listing in the REQUIRES field is redundant in these cases. - However it remains listed to accomodate the case of JAVA=jdk, in which the - apache-ant package is needed to build LibreOffice. - Finally, setting JAVA=no will build LibreOffice without any Java support. - -5. The number of parallel make jobs used by the LibreOffice build system defaults - to the number of available cpu cores. If the MAKEFLAGS environment variable - contains the -j option e.g. +3. The number of parallel make jobs used by the LibreOffice build + system defaults to the number of available cpu cores. If the + MAKEFLAGS environment variable contains the -j option e.g. MAKEFLAGS=-j6 then the SlackBuild will pass this to the LibreOffice build system - (via its --with-parallelism configure option). The number of parallel make jobs - is further controlled with the PARALLEL environment varaiable e.g. + (via its --with-parallelism configure option). The number of parallel + jobs is further controlled by the PARALLEL environment variable e.g: PARALLEL=1 sh LibreOffice.SlackBuild - which would limit building to a single make process, overriding any value set - with the -j option in MAKEFLAGS. + which would limit building to a single make process, overriding any + value set with the -j option in MAKEFLAGS. -6. Use of ccache during building is turned off by default to save disk space (and - possible build failure due to lack of disk space). It may be reinstated by - setting the USE_CCACHE environment to "yes" e.g. +4. Use of ccache during building is turned off by default to save disk + space (and possible build failure due to lack of disk space). It may + be reinstated by setting the USE_CCACHE environment to "yes" e.g. USE_CCACHE=yes sh LibreOffice.SlackBuild -For performance reasons, this Slackbuild sets GTK2 to be used at runtime. -Alternatives (gen, gtk3, kde4) may still be used by setting SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN -in the user's runtime environment. +5. PyUNO is a Python interface to the LibreOffice API. It is disabled by + default due to interference with Openshot (therefore possibly other + packages). It may be enabled by setting the PYUNO environment + variable e.g. + PYUNO=yes sh LibreOffice.SlackBuild + + Even without PyUNO enabled in this way, PyUNO scripts may still be + executed by suitably extending the PYTHONPATH in the environment at + runtime e.g. + PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program my_python_uno_script.py + -Spell checking of documents at runtime requires installation of a suitable -wordlist for the language concerned. This can be achieved in either of two -ways: +Spell checking of documents at runtime requires installation of a +suitable wordlist for the language concerned. This can be achieved in +either of two ways: 1. Build & install hunspell-en (or hunspell-es, hunspell-pl) from SBo 2. Search for the desired language dictionary at: - http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center?getCategories=Dictionary -and download the relevant file e.g. dict-en.oxt. Now open LO's extension -manager and press the "Add..." button which will open a file browser with which -to locate and open the downloaded .oxt file. The new dictionary will now appear -in the Extension Manager. +http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center?getCategories=Dictionary +and download the relevant file e.g. dict-en.oxt. Now open LO's +extension manager and press the "Add..." button which will open a file +browser with which to locate and open the downloaded .oxt file. The +new dictionary will now appear in the Extension Manager. -Some people have experienced difficulties building LibreOffice while a previoius -version is still installed. It is therefore recommended that any previous -version should be removed before building LibreOffice. As well as removing any -LibreOffice installation, it is important to also clear environment variables -that were set by the installation i.e. +Some people have experienced difficulties building LibreOffice while a +previous version is still installed. It is therefore recommended that +any previous version should be removed before building LibreOffice. As +well as removing any LibreOffice installation, it is important to also +clear environment variables that were set by the installation i.e. /sbin/removepkg LibreOffice unset UNO_PATH unset URE_BOOTSTRAP +Good luck! |