Hi...
We now have Openoffice.org packages for debian on i386 and and powerpc.
These are currently the only supported linux architectures. I saw, that
someone is working on ports on sparc, alpha and IRIX, but it will take some
time.
Openoffice.org 1.0 was announced yesterday, and we already have .debs
available for i386. Building on powerpc takes longer, so they will be ready
in the next day or so.
The sources and .debs are now available from three sources. The master
server is at Moscow State University, and we now have a fast mirror in
Germany, thanks to the guys at vpn-junkies.de! A slower source at
Sourceforge is also available.
You can get openoffice.org and the needed files, libstlport4.5gcc3 for i386
and libstlport4.0 for powerpc, by adding one of the following lines to your
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.mx1.ru/~chris/openoffice unstable main contrib
or
deb ftp://ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contrib
or
deb http://apt-proxy.sf.net/openoffice unstable main contrib
Sources are also available from these servers (replace deb with deb-src).
If you are using apt-proxy (maintained by one of our team!), you can
configure it to pick up openoffice packages like this:
apt-proxy.conf:
add_backend /openoffice/ $APT_PROXY_CACHE/openoffice/ http://www.mx1.ru/~chris/openoffice/
sources.list:
deb http://SERVERNAME:9999/openoffice unstable main contrib
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You can participate in development by getting the debian-directory for
openoffice.org from here:
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@island.po.cs.msu.su:/var/lib/cvs
cvs login
<empty password>
cvs co oo-deb
CVS commits are mailed to the debian-openoffice mailing list, so you can
follow our development and comment there.
If you are planning on building openoffice.org more than once, we recommend
the use of ccache (apt-get install ccache). This reduces the build time
from 10 hours to 4 on i386 on the second and subsequent builds. To activate
use of ccache during the build, set the environment variable
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=ccache before you build.
If you have issues, please mail them to debian-openoffice, so we can
discuss them! :)
What has been done:
We have packages for debian on i386 and powerpc. I hope, alpha/sparc and
perhaps MIPS will follow once they are supported upstream. The dependency
bugs are fixed and the sort in the MANIFEST-File, but there is much to do!
01. Port OpenOffice.org on powerpc to gcc3. In the module bridges there is
assembly code, which has not yet been ported to gcc3. I talked to Kevin
B. Hendricks, the whoswho of OpenOffice.org on powerpc, and he told me,
that he does not plan to do the port for gcc 3.0.4 and is concentrating
on being ready for gcc 3.1. I will help him.
02. We have a report about ugly fonts after installation. We have not yet
investigated this problem to find a fix.
We need to look at SAL_FONT_PATH variable.
03. Where should the configuration files go?
Tim Wheeler pointed out, that the splash screen should be disabled.
Showing the splashscreen couses a high load on his computer (Athlon
1.2GHz). In this issue he asks about the location of the
config-files. They should be saved global in /etc. sofficerc is in
/usr/lib/openoffice.org/program is a kandidate for /etc/openoffice.
The name of the dir in /etc could be changed to openoffice.org :)
I'm not really sure that it is splashscreen that makes a load. --Nidd.
04. Tim Wheeler also mentioned:
I had to add /usr/lib/openoffice/program to /etc/ld.so.conf so that i
could run spadmin (to add fonts). i couldn't find a wrapper/link to
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin.bin.
We will fix this when we start looking at the file locations. Most files
are still in their default locations as installed by openoffice setup.
Many of these locations are not correct for a Debian system and are not
necessarily FHS compliant.
You can work around this by running spadmin like this:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program /usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin.bin
05. OpenOffice.org ready for debian main?
Peter Novodvorski is working on patches for two problems that will let
OpenOffice.org be put into main. The problems we have are two
build dependencies: Java 1.3.1 and libgcpl0. Both packages
are non-free, which means that currently OpenOffice.org can only be
uploaded to contrib. Since Openoffice.org is due to release 1.0 in the
next week or so, we will not be able to get rid of these in time for the
release. Hopefully it will be possible to announce Openoffice.org for
main soon :)
gpc patch is already in CVS --Nidd.
it is in the 1.0 .deb :) --Chris
07. Upload OpenOffice.org to debian experimental?
If we decide to upload OpenOffice.org to experimental, we have the
advantage of the debian-BTS for handling bugs. But we are not ready to
do this yet.
So, please, if you have some reports, bugs or issues, mail them to
debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org.
08. Problems with setup
The openoffice script tries to start setup if it has not already been
run, but this fails if a previous version was already installed. If you
have problems, please check that you do not have any old installations
around, and delete ~/.sversionrc.
Will work on this. --Nidd.
09. Other languages. See http://lang.openoffice.org
There is simple support for building .debs for other supported languages
by changing the language number in debian/scripts/vars:
BUILDLANG=01
Change 01 to the country code for the language that you wish to build
for, e.g. 49 for German, then rebuild the deb.
We need to improve this process so that several languages can be built at
once, and .debs with different names generated.
You also need to edit /etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf and change
LAGUAGELIST=01 to your language code.
11. Problems with S3 Savage chip
If you are running XFree86 4.x and have an S3 Savage chip, you must use
this workaround. Export this variable before starting openoffice:
SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true
export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50
If you do not do this, OOo will not work and the Xserver will eventually
hang. If you are very unlucky, the machine must be _powered off_ and
rebooted to clear the problem!
Alternatively, you can install XFree86 4.2, or update the driver to
version 1.1.20 or above from:
http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
12. KDE/GNOME integration
The desktop integration has not yet been done. The files are not put
into the correct places yet.
Setup wants to put files in ~/.kde2, which does not exist on Debian
systems. You can get rid of the ugly error message with:
ln -s .kde .kde2
But this has the disadvantage that setup will copy files into ~/.kde for
every user, which is a waste of disk space.
13. ODBC libraries
It was pointed out that OOo possibly looks for libodbc.so, which is only
available in the lib*-dev package. This needs to be tested.
14. Breaking up openoffice.org?
The package is currently the biggest in Debian to date! We will look at
breaking the package into smaller pieces, but there will probably still
be quite a large openoffice.org-core package (100-180MB unpacked?) that is
needed whichever application is installed.
15. libstlport4.5
On i386 architecture, the libstlport shared library that is needed for
Openoffice.org must be compiled with gcc 3, due to the ABI change. This
library is available from the apt archive, too. Currently, this
conflicts with the libstlport built with gcc 2.95, which means you cannot
install Openoffice.org and packages that depend on libstlport4.5
(libboost-xxx). We need to change the soname for this library.
This list can be found in /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/TODO.debian.gz
Cheers
The
Debian OpenOffice Team
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One time, you all will be emulated by linux!
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Jan- Hendrik Palic
Url:"http://www.billgotchy.de";
E-Mail: "palic@billgotchy.de"
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