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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