[Solved] Cannot install LibreOffice from source code

[kyonides]

I downloaded the 12.6 MB of the source code and tried to configure it with ./configure but it failed even if I thought I included the distro name as per the configure process request...

$ ./configure --with-distro UbuntuLucid
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for UbuntuLucid-pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for FOO_COMMON... yes
using /home/arkanthos/Downloads/libreoffice-build-3.2.99.1/patches/dev300/apply
checking for split sources... yes
checking for directory where to download sources ... /home/arkanthos/Downloads/libreoffice-build-3.2.99.1/src
checking for distribution name... configure: error: A distribution must be selected by the option --with-distro. You can choose one from:
    ArchLinux
    Ark
    Common
    CommonLinux
    CommonMac
    CommonWin32
    CrossWin32
    Debian
    DebianEtch
    DebianSarge
    DroplineGNOME
    DroplineGNOME64
    FSFhuLinux
    FSFhuMacOSX
    FSFhuWindows
    Frugalware
    Gentoo
    GoOoLinux
    GoOoMacOSX
    GoOoWin32
    LibreOfficeLinux
    LibreOfficeMacOSX
    LibreOfficeWin32
    Mandriva
    Mandriva64
    NovellWin32
    NovellWin32Eval
    NovellWin32ISO
    OOo4Kids
    OxygenOfficeLinux
    OxygenOfficeWindows
    Pardus2007
    Pardus2008
    PlainLinux
    Raw
    SUSE-10.0
    SUSE-10.1
    SUSE-10.2
    SUSE-10.3
    SUSE-11.0
    SUSE-11.1
    SUSE-11.2
    SUSE-9.1
    SUSE-9.2
    SUSE-9.3
    SUSE-reduced
    SUSE
    Slackware
    Solaris
    UbuntuHardy
    UbuntuJaunty
    UbuntuKarmic
    UbuntuL10n
    UbuntuLucid
    UbuntuMaverick
    Win32
    openmamba
    rpl2-64
    rpl2
    translate-org-za-linux
    translate-org-za-win32

[GreyGeek]

Re: Cannot install LibreOffice from source code

Try it with the distro name in lower case, or in single or double quotes...

OR, try the method given here:
http://blog.worldlabel.com/2010/inst...d-distros.html

And, I just found .deb files here:
http://download.documentfoundation.o...ffice/testing/

[GreyGeek]

Re: Cannot install LibreOffice from source code

Got LOo running!!!

First, I uninstalled every OOo file with a green box in the repository (Synaptic).

Then I unzipped the download deb file. It unzips as "en-US" in the directory you put it in.
CD to the DEBS directory and issue:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

It does NOT install any menu options, so you will have to do that yourself. It installs in
/opt/libreoffice3/program
so you will have to create your own menu option to soffice in that directory.

EDIT: found the swriter icon here:
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/mimetypes/soffice.png

[kyonides]

Re: Cannot install LibreOffice from source code

I downloaded the tarball with all deb packages included and even installed the libreoffice3.3-debian-menus_3.3-9526_all.deb found in the /en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/ directory and now I can even open it from Kickoff or any desktop file on my desktop.

I didn't need to uninstall OOo.

Thanks for helping!

[GreyGeek]

Re: [Solved] Cannot install LibreOffice from source code

The debs for the menu entries is here...
en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/

doing sudo dpkg -i *.deb

in that directory will create menu items to the LOo apps installed in /opt...