LibreOffice, OpenOffice

This description how you install LibreOffice or OpenOffice on Plop Linux.

LibreOffice

Download LibreOffice from the offical homepage.

Example file name: LibreOffice_5.0.3_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz

• You can run the script install_office.sh

chmod 700 install_office.sh
sudo ./install_office.sh -L LibreOffice_5.0.3_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz

• Or install manually

Extract the archive: tar xfz LibreOffice_5.0.3_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz

Change to the RPMS directory: cd LibreOffice_5.0.3_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS

Extract the RPM files: rpm2targz *.rpm

Create a temporary directory: mkdir /tmp/office-install.tmp

Extract the TAR files: for i in *.tar.gz; do tar xfvz $i -C /tmp/office-install.tmp; done

Copy the opt and usr directory: sudo cp -fvr /tmp/office-install.tmp/{opt/*,usr/*} /opt

You can remove now the LibreOffice_5.0.3_Linux_x86-64_rpm and /tmp/office-install.tmp directories.

Done. Now you can start LibreOffice with the command libreoffice5.0 or from the Application menu.

OpenOffice

Download OpenOffice from the offical homepage.

Example file name: Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

• You can run the script install_office.sh

chmod 700 install_office.sh
sudo ./install_office.sh -O Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

• Or install manually

Extract the archive: tar xfz Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

Change to the RPMS directory: cd en-US/RPMS

Copy some files: cp -v desktop-integration/* .

Extract the RPM files: rpm2targz *.rpm

Create a temporary directory: mkdir /tmp/office-install.tmp

Extract the TAR files: for i in *.tar.gz; do tar xfvz $i -C /tmp/office-install.tmp; done

Copy the opt and usr directory: sudo cp -fvr /tmp/office-install.tmp/{opt/*,usr/bin,usr/share} /opt

You can remove now the en-US and /tmp/office-install.tmp directories.

Done. Now you can start OpenOffice with the command soffice or from the Application menu.

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