OpenOffice 3

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h0ax · Post by **h0ax** » Wed May 07, 2008 4:28 pm

Hi all,
will be openoffice 3 beta in portage? I would like to install it (binary package) but OOo 3 beta is not in portage. I tryied OOo3b in windows and I like it very much

(OOo, not windows

). Many thanks for answers and ideas.

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Wed May 07, 2008 4:34 pm

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Unsupported Software.

xvalentinex · Post by **xvalentinex** » Wed May 07, 2008 6:37 pm

Please note I take no responsibility if you hose your system.

This is what I did to install it quickly

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mkdir ~/oo3

(Download the tar.gz from openoffice to the oo3 folder in your home directory)

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cd ~/oo3
tar xzvf OOo_3.0.0beta_20080429_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz
cd BEA300_m2_native_packed-2_en-US.9301/
mkdir TAR
mkdir EXTRACT
cd RPMS
for i in *; do rpm2tar ${i}; done
mv *.tar ../TAR
cd ../TAR
for i in *; do tar xvf ${i} -C ../EXTRACT

That's it, you can now `cd ~/oo3/BEA300_m2_native_packed-2_en-US.9301/EXTRACT/opt/openoffice.org3/program/`
and execute the binaries (ie `./soffice`)

Someone smarter than me may be able to integrate this better to coexist with oo2, but I just did a path in the mean time:
Open ~/.bashrc with a text editor.
edit or create a line like this:
export PATH=/home/<USERNAME>/oo3/BEA300_m2_native_packed-2_en-US.9301/EXTRACT/opt/openoffice.org3/program/:$PATH
NOTE THE oo3 path comes before :$PATH

then run `source ~/.bashrc`

Now you can run all the apps from terminal, sdraw, swriter, simpress, scalc, etc
I just created an Icon that runs soffice and open the app I need from there.

Note that everything except soffice in oo2 was prefixed with oo (such as oocalc) but in 3 beta it is prefixed with s (such as scalc).
Also note this does not effect mime-types (if you double click and ods file it will still open oo2)

When it comes time to uninstall:

rm -fr ~/oo3
Open .bashrc and return the "export PATH" back to it's original state
source ~/.bashrc

h0ax · Post by **h0ax** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:12 pm

Thanks. After all I decided to do it your way. OOo3b really works fine from rpm. Maybe somebody will make an ebuild for it later, but now it is everything I need. Thank you for your idea and have a nice day

alienvenom · Post by **alienvenom** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:45 pm

I'd like to make a special request...

When openoffice-bin-3.x is released, can we PLEASE have an option to install the version with BCI enabled for freetype? I really really don't want to compile from source AGAIN.

Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Wed May 07, 2008 8:40 pm

For those interested, there is an ebuild in my overlay here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5086550.html

alienvenom · Post by **alienvenom** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:18 am

For some reason, when I attempt to use OpenOffice 3, X completely freezes and uses 100% CPU. Running "soffice" from the console, I get a warning about how it can't find the Java Runtime Environment.

alienvenom · Post by **alienvenom** » Fri May 09, 2008 2:21 am

alienvenom wrote:For some reason, when I attempt to use OpenOffice 3, X completely freezes and uses 100% CPU. Running "soffice" from the console, I get a warning about how it can't find the Java Runtime Environment.

Actually, I think I may have found a bug. I was using RealVNC... so apparently there is a bug between the Xorg VNC module and OpenOffice-3... interesting

cctsurf · Post by **cctsurf** » Sat May 17, 2008 8:26 pm

I was wondering if anyone is putting together a standard (not binary) ebuild for openoffice 3?

code933k · Post by **code933k** » Sun May 18, 2008 11:49 am

alienvenom wrote:For some reason, when I attempt to use OpenOffice 3, X completely freezes and uses 100% CPU. Running "soffice" from the console, I get a warning about how it can't find the Java Runtime Environment.

If you are running an amd64 system with any x86 java-VM or you haven't set eselect(?) to work with a proper java-VM that is what you get.
The problem remains since 2.x versions if your problem is what I am suspecting [...]

PS:// Have you checked out your $JAVA_HOME environment?

Strayer · Post by **Strayer** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:52 am

cctsurf wrote:I was wondering if anyone is putting together a standard (not binary) ebuild for openoffice 3?

Sorry for pushing up the old thread, I did not find any newer...

Is there any new information about this? I'd also like to install openoffice 3 from source.

Need4Speed · Post by **Need4Speed** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:54 am

Any update on a source based ebuild? I'm surprised one isn't in portage; big applications like this usually get beta ebuilds.

wrc1944 · Post by **wrc1944** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:02 am

There's this one at bugzilla- I haven't tried it, but it might work. However, the comments posted don't sound too encouraging, but maybe it could be improved? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233465

slycordinator · Post by **slycordinator** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:41 pm

Need4Speed wrote:Any update on a source based ebuild? I'm surprised one isn't in portage; big applications like this usually get beta ebuilds.

wrc1944 wrote:There's this one at bugzilla- I haven't tried it, but it might work. However, the comments posted don't sound too encouraging, but maybe it could be improved? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233465

openoffice-bin != source-based

Though the bug title and summary make it seem that it is for openoffice but the actual ebuild there is for openoffice-bin

zdavatz · Post by **zdavatz** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:19 pm

Thanks for this HowTo! Very good stuff!

It just works.

Also see:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=93817

Zeno

gringo · Post by **gringo** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:49 pm

betas for ooo-3 have been in the tree for a while, hardmasked though.
rc1 was added yesterday.

cheers

Need4Speed · Post by **Need4Speed** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:33 pm

I was able to build the latest openoffice3 in the tree and it works fine, but it looks very ugly. Anyone know why it's not following my system's gtk2's theme?

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gentoo ~ # paludis -ip openoffice
Building target list...
Building dependency list...

These packages will be installed:

* app-office/openoffice [R 3.0.0_rc1] <target>
    -binfilter cups -dbus -debug -eds -gnome gstreamer gtk java -kde -ldap -mono -nsplugin -odk opengl -pam -seamonkey elibc: (-FreeBSD) linguas: -af -ar -as_IN -be_BY -bg -bn -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -dz -el en -en_GB en_US -en_ZA -eo -es -et -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -it -ja -km -ko -ku -lt -lv -mk -ml_IN -mr_IN -nb -ne -nl -nn -nr -ns -or_IN -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -sh -sk -sl -sr -ss -st -sv -sw_TZ -ta_IN -te_IN -tg -th -ti_ER -tn -tr -ts -uk -ur_IN -ve -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu

screenshot

Need4Speed · Post by **Need4Speed** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:42 pm

nevermind. finally found a simple solution on google:

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OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome ooffice

(even though i use openbox, not gnome..)

El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:35 pm

I can't even get openoffice-3.0.0_rc1 to build. It fails at configure telling me I need to install pam-devel

musv · Post by **musv** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:52 pm

Same here. I don't have pam installed too. I already wrote a bug-report for 3.0.0_beta2. And I wrote a new one into the same thread:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233465

DeathCarrot · Post by **DeathCarrot** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:36 am

Has anyone managed to get spellcheck working on openoffice-bin-3.0.0_rc2?
It doesn't seem to be enabled by default and I can't find an english language extension for it here. There are dictionaries in /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/, but they don't seem to help (they're from a myspell package, which supposedly I can't use with openoffice-bin).
If it matters, it's built with USE="-gnome -java -kde" LINGUAS="en_GB".

I can set the language of the document to English (UK), but it doesn't seem to have a dictionary associated with it.

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:16 pm

*subscribes*

I'll also try to compile it in the near future, so it's handy to have some info on problems ...

gustafson · Post by **gustafson** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:58 pm

DeathCarrot wrote:Has anyone managed to get spellcheck working on openoffice-bin-3.0.0_rc2?
It doesn't seem to be enabled by default and I can't find an english language extension for it here. There are dictionaries in /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/, but they don't seem to help (they're from a myspell package, which supposedly I can't use with openoffice-bin).
If it matters, it's built with USE="-gnome -java -kde" LINGUAS="en_GB".

I can set the language of the document to English (UK), but it doesn't seem to have a dictionary associated with it.

Same trouble here. I thought it worth bumping since it is pointless to create docs without the ability to spell check.

Post by **asturm** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:03 am

Hmm, tried to compile openoffice-3.0.0_rc3 but got the same error as with rc1 & 2:

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app-office/openoffice-3.0.0_rc3 [2.4.1] USE="cups dbus kde ldap nsplugin%* opengl pam -binfilter -debug -eds -gnome -gstreamer -gtk -java -mono -odk (-firefox%*) (-seamonkey%) (-xulrunner%*)"

[snip...]


Making: ../unxlngx6.pro/bin/rptuien-GB.res                                                         
using rsc multi-res feature                                                                        
rsc -presponse @/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-3.0.0_rc3/temp/mkbGxV88 > /dev/null         
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Running processes: 0                                                                               
deliver -- version: 1.130                                                                          
Module 'reportdesign' delivered successfully. 37 files copied, 2 files unchanged                   

1 module(s): 
        stax 
need(s) to be rebuilt

Reason(s):

ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-3.0.0_rc3/work/ooo/build/ooo300-m8/stax                                                                               

Attention: if you build and deliver the above module(s) you may prolongue your the build issuing command "build --from stax"                                                                          

rmdir /tmp/21656
make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1
 *                             
 * ERROR: app-office/openoffice-3.0.0_rc3 failed.
 * Call stack:                                   
 * ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile     
 * environment, line 5458:  Called die           
 * The specific snippet of code:                 
 * make || die "Build failed"                    
 * The die message:                              
 * Build failed

rolis · Post by **rolis** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:08 pm

i've got the same error but for different module:

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Building index for all classes...
Generating /var/tmp/paludis/app-office-openoffice-3.0.0_rc3/work/ooo/build/ooo300-m8/xmerge/unxlngx6.pro/class/javadoc/stylesheet.css...
117 warnings

main:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 6 seconds
Running processes: 0
deliver -- version: 1.130
Module 'xmerge' delivered successfully. 8 files copied, 4 files unchanged

1 module(s):
        i18npool
need(s) to be rebuilt

Reason(s):

ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /var/tmp/paludis/app-office-openoffice-3.0.0_rc3/work/ooo/build/ooo300-m8/i18npool/source/localedata/data

Attention: if you build and deliver the above module(s) you may prolongue your the build issuing command "build --from i18npool"

rmdir /tmp/25220
make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1

!!! ERROR in app-office/openoffice-3.0.0_rc3:
!!! In src_compile at line 6653
!!! Build failed

!!! Call stack:
!!!    * src_compile (/var/tmp/paludis/app-office-openoffice-3.0.0_rc3/temp/loadsaveenv:6653)
!!!    * ebuild_f_compile (/usr/libexec/paludis/1/src_compile.bash:49)
!!!    * ebuild_main (/usr/libexec/paludis/ebuild.bash:470)
!!!    * main (/usr/libexec/paludis/ebuild.bash:485)

diefunc: making ebuild PID 14208 exit with error
die trap: exiting with error.

Install error:
  * In program /usr/bin/paludis (--log-level warning --dl-reinstall if-use-changed --dl-upgrade always --continue-on-failure if-independent) -i world:
  * When performing install action from command line:
  * When executing install task:
  * When installing 'app-office/openoffice-3.0.0_rc3:0::gentoo':
  * Install error: Install failed for 'app-office/openoffice-3.0.0_rc3:0::gentoo'

rc1 and rc2 built ok, though.

OpenOffice 3

OpenOffice 3

Very good stuff! Thank you very much!