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