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-1.4.0b

Introduction to KOffice

KOffice is the integrated office suite for KDE.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

The following patch brings koffice up to version 1.4.0b.

KOffice has many localization packages in the form of: koffice-l10n-[xx]-1.4.0.tar.bz2. The [xx] is a two to seven character code for the country covered. The sizes of these files range from about 0.4 MB to 4.6 MB.

KOffice Dependencies

Required

kdebase-3.4.1

Recommended

libjpeg-6b, libart_lgpl-2.3.17, libxml2-2.6.20, libxslt-1.1.14

Optional

Aspell-0.60.3, Python-2.4.1, PostgreSQL-8.0.3, ImageMagick-6.2.3-5, libwv2, libwpd, libpaper, GraphViz, and Doxygen-1.4.3

Installation of KOffice

Install KOffice with the following commands:

patch -Np0 -i ../koffice_1.4.0_patchset_1b.diff &&
./configure --prefix=$KDE_PREFIX --disable-debug \
    --disable-dependency-tracking &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install
[Note]

Note

If you wish to create the API documentation and you have Doxygen and GraphViz installed, make apidox must be done before make install.

Contents

Installed Programs: karbon, kchart, kformula, kivio, koconverter, koscript, koshell, kprconverter.pl, kpresenter, kspread, kthesaurus, kudesigner, kugar, and kword
Installed Libraries: Numerous libraries (about 50) in $KDE_PREFIX/lib
Installed Directory: Numerous directories in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

kchart

is a chart drawing application.

kformula

is a formula editor.

kivio

is a flowchart program.

kpresenter

is a presentation builder/display program.

kspread

is a scriptable spreadsheet program.

kugar

is a tool for creating reports.

kword

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

Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600