Office Suites

This chapter contains applications that bundle all the essential needs of everyday office workers into one neat 'little' package. The benefits are a consistent user interface and cooperation between applications.

KOffice-1.3.1

Introduction to KOffice

KOffice is the integrated office suite for KDE.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/kde/stable/koffice-1.3.1/src/koffice-1.3.1.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/koffice-1.3.1/src/koffice-1.3.1.tar.bz2
Download size: 11 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 155 MB
Estimated build time: 20.7 SBU

Additional downloads

KOffice has many internationalization packages in the form of:

koffice-i18n-[xx]-1.3.1.tar.bz2

where the [xx] is a two to five letter code for the country covered. The sizes of these files range from about 0.5 MB to 4.0 MB.

KOffice dependencies

Required

kdebase-3.2.2

Optional

libart_lgpl-2.3.16, Python-2.3.3, libxml2-2.6.9, libxslt-1.1.6, aspell-0.50.5, ImageMagick-5.5.7-16 and libwv2

Installation of KOffice

Install KOffice with the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$KDE_PREFIX --disable-debug \
    --disable-dependency-tracking &&
make &&
make install

The KOffice package provides karbon, kchart, kformula, kivio, koconverter, koscript, koshell, kprconverter.pl, kpresenter, kspread, kthesaurus, kudesigner, kugar and kword.

kchart

kchart is a chart drawing application.

kformula

kformula is a formula editor.

kivio

kivio is a flowchart program.

kpresenter

kpresenter is a presentation builder/display program.

kspread

kspread is a scriptable spreadsheet program.

kugar

kugar is a tool for creating reports.

kword

kword is a framemaker-like word processing and desktop publishing program.