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

Download (HTTP): http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/kde/stable/koffice-1.4/src/koffice-1.4.0a.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/koffice-1.4/src/koffice-1.4.0a.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 9a8494144962ea5434397289ed326385
Download size: 18.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 303 MB (additional 55 MB for API docs)
Estimated build time: 28.2 SBU (additional 0.5 SBU for API docs)

Additional Downloads

The following patch brings koffice up to version 1.4.0b.

Download mirrors: http://www.koffice.org/bugfixes/koffice_1.4.0_patchset_1b.diff.bz2

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 l10n package listing: http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.4/src/koffice-l10n/
Download MD5 sums: http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/kde/stable/koffice-1.4/src/MD5SUMS

KOffice Dependencies

Required

kdebase-3.4.1

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

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

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

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