Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Jim1911]

According to PC World "Some developers of the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite announced a break from Oracle on Tuesday, introducing a new name for the project and establishing a new foundation to guide its future.

They will distribute a version of the open-source office productivity suite under the name "LibreOffice," under the purview of an independent organization called The Document Foundation."

I have prepared and uploaded a new LibreOffice_3.3.0_beta2_sfs4.sfs that works fine on Puppy Lucid 5.1.1, Base 5.2 (2.3,1 and 2.3.2), Wary 0.9.2, and Lighthouse 5.0 F. It is available for download here courtesy of playdayz. Java is also needed for some functions to work. It works fine with jre-1.6.0.20 which is the current version downloaded by Quickpet.

It has only been tested on above pups, therefore please post only problems using it with the above pups. Also, any success with other pups.

Edit: 5 Dec 2010
Beta 3 is available thru Quickpet in Luci-246. It's also available on ibiblio for users of different versions.

Enjoy,
Jim

[tubeguy]

[Terryphi]

[musher0]

[technosaurus]

To be honest I would rather goffice get some leadership (corporate or otherwise) and unify a good set of small but powerful gtk apps including an access compatible sqlite based database and a powerpoint compatible presentation app to complement abiword and gnumeric.

[musher0]

[tronkel]

Yes, this is an important development for Linux in general and Puppy in particular.

Goffice or LibreOffice? Both have their upsides and downsides.

I'd like to see an LibreOffice Lite getting built that would be ideal for Puppy. This is the perfect time to join the DocumentFoundation and put this exact point to them.

I'm already registered with the foundation. If there is more interest shown by Puppians, I'll contact them and request this.

I've already tried LibreOffice. It is very beta-ish, maybe even alpha-ish in many ways. It bombs out when attempting to print on my system. Early days, so you can expect this sort of thing.

I tried to compile it in Debian Squeeze, but no joy as yet.

For the moment, just as an exercise in slimming down, a Puppy sfs containing just the WP and spreadsheet DEBS plus other core stuff could be attempted.

[Lobster]

[Roy]

I have always used OpenOffice instead of Goffice, but only because of it's compatibility with the professional world that uses MS products. Pri had packaged a cut-down OpenOffice that had fit all of my needs nicely:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=893510419&t=52716

I think Pri was smart to use only writer, calc, and impress.

If Abiword and Gnumeric would both behave AND have full compatibility with the business world, I would still miss the ability to view the required PowerPoint presentations....

Thinking about trying Softmaker (30 day trial but then must pay for it) next, if I can figure out how to do the menu entries and stuff. tgz is 138M. I've never compiled and never made .pets before so face a steep learning curve if I go that route.
http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofl_en.htm

Just my 2 cents.

-Roy

[puppymartin]

Bèta 2 works in Puppy.

Install HowTo:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=459908#459908

[Jim1911]

[Jim1911]

Duplicate post

[DaveS]

I am intending to make available sfs and pets of LibreOffice and OpenOffice, and keep them up to date. Cut down versions will also be included (I hope), but they are not THAT much smaller. So far, LibreOffice.sfs is up and if testing is successful, the .pet plus OpenOffice.sfs/pet will be up by the end of the day.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61153

[hillside]

DaveS,

Will your version have the database module included? Even though it's compatibility with MS Office is poor at best, it works for the things I need to do.

[DaveS]