docs/155552: add LibreOffice to handbook/faq
Jason Helfman
jhelfman at experts-exchange.com
Mon Mar 14 13:10:12 UTC 2011
>Number: 155552
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: add LibreOffice to handbook/faq
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 14 13:10:11 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jason Helfman
>Release: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Experts Exchange, LLC.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD eggman.experts-exchange.com 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011 root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
Add LibreOffice to Handbook and Faq.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Index: faq/book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/jhelfman/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.1133
diff -u -r1.1133 book.sgml
--- faq/book.sgml 8 Mar 2011 09:42:08 -0000 1.1133
+++ faq/book.sgml 14 Mar 2011 12:45:31 -0000
@@ -4155,7 +4155,9 @@
<answer>
<para>The open-source <application><ulink
url="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</ulink></application>
- office suite works natively on &os;. The &linux; version of
+ and <application><ulink
+ url="http://www.libreoffice.org">LibreOffice</ulink></application>
+ office suites work natively on &os;. The &linux; version of
<application><ulink
url="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/index.html">Oracle Open Office</ulink></application>,
the value-added closed-source version of OpenOffice.org,
Index: handbook/config/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/jhelfman/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.245
diff -u -r1.245 chapter.sgml
--- handbook/config/chapter.sgml 1 Dec 2010 20:37:03 -0000 1.245
+++ handbook/config/chapter.sgml 14 Mar 2011 12:38:49 -0000
@@ -135,9 +135,9 @@
with &man.pkg.add.1; the packaging tools extract a temporary copy
of the packages under <filename class="directory">/var/tmp</filename>. Large
software packages, like <application>Firefox</application>,
- or <application>OpenOffice</application> may be tricky to install
- if there is not enough disk space
- under <filename class="directory">/var/tmp</filename>.</para>
+ <application>OpenOffice</application> or <application>LibreOffice</application>
+ may be tricky to install if there is not enough disk space under
+ <filename class="directory">/var/tmp</filename>.</para>
</note>
<para>The <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> partition holds many
Index: handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/jhelfman/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.101
diff -u -r1.101 chapter.sgml
--- handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml 25 Feb 2011 09:12:49 -0000 1.101
+++ handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml 14 Mar 2011 12:19:59 -0000
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@
<application>KOffice</application>,
<application>AbiWord</application>,
<application>The GIMP</application>,
- <application>OpenOffice.org</application>)</para>
+ <application>OpenOffice.org</application>,
+ <application>LibreOffice</application>)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -527,6 +528,14 @@
<entry>huge</entry>
<entry><application>&jdk;</application>, <application>Mozilla</application></entry>
</row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><application>LibreOffice</application></entry>
+ <entry>somewhat heavy</entry>
+ <entry>huge</entry>
+ <entry><application>Gtk+</application>, or <application>KDE</application>/
+ <application>GNOME</application>, or <application>&jdk;</application></entry>
+ </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
@@ -732,6 +741,87 @@
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>openoffice.org</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>LibreOffice</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary><application>LibreOffice</application></primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>office suite</primary>
+ <secondary><application>LibreOffice</application></secondary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <para><application>LibreOffice</application> includes all of the
+ mandatory applications in a complete office productivity
+ suite: a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager,
+ and a drawing program. Its user interface is very similar
+ to other office suites, and it can import and export in various
+ popular file formats. It is available in a number of
+ different languages — internationalization has been
+ extended to interfaces, spell checkers, and
+ dictionaries.</para>
+
+ <para>The word processor of <application>LibreOffice</application>
+ uses a native XML file format for increased portability and
+ flexibility. The spreadsheet program features a macro language
+ and it can be interfaced with external databases.
+ <application>LibreOffice</application> is already stable
+ and runs natively on &windows;, Linux, FreeBSD, and
+ &macos; X. More information about <application>LibreOffice
+ </application> can be found on the
+ <ulink url="http://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice web site</ulink>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>To install <application>LibreOffice</application> as package,
+ do:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r libreoffice</userinput></screen>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>When running a -RELEASE version of &os;, this should work.
+ </note>
+
+ <para>Once the package is installed, you need to type the following
+ command to run <application>LibreOffice</application>:
+ </para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>libreoffice</userinput></screen>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>During the first launch, you will be asked some
+ questions and a <filename>.libreoffice</filename> folder
+ will be created in your home directory.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>If the <application>LibreOffice</application> packages
+ are not available, you still have the option to compile the
+ port. However, you must bear in mind that it requires a lot of
+ disk space and a fairly long time to compile.</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/editors/libreoffice</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>If you want to build a localized version, replace the
+ previous command line with the following:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make LOCALIZED_LANG=<replaceable>your_language</replaceable> install clean</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>You have to replace
+ <replaceable>your_language</replaceable> with the correct
+ language ISO-code. A list of supported language codes are
+ available in the <maketarget>pre-fetch</maketarget> target of
+ the port <filename>Makefile</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>Once this is done,
+ <application>LibreOffice</application> can be launched with
+ the command:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>libreoffice</userinput></screen>
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="desktop-viewers">
@@ -1154,6 +1244,12 @@
</row>
<row>
+ <entry><application>LibreOffice</application></entry>
+ <entry><literal>libreoffice</literal></entry>
+ <entry><filename role="package">editors/libreoffice</filename></entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
<entry><application>&acrobat.reader;</application></entry>
<entry><literal>acroread</literal></entry>
<entry><filename role="package">print/acroread8</filename></entry>
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