KOffice-1.6.3

Introduction to KOffice

KOffice is the integrated office suite for KDE. It provides native OASIS OpenDocument format support.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

KOffice has many localization packages in the form of: koffice-l10n-<xx>-1.6.3.tar.bz2. The <xx> is a two to seven character code for the country covered. The sizes of these files range from about 0.2 MB to 15 MB.

KOffice Dependencies

Required

kdebase-3.5.9

Recommended

Optional

Aspell-0.60.5, Python-2.5.2, Ruby-1.8.6-p111, libpqxx (for kexi, requires PostgreSQL-8.2.4), MySQL-5.0.41 (plugin), little cms-1.16 and ImageMagick-6.3.5-10 (required for krita), OpenEXR (for enhanced image processing), libwv2 (for MS Word filter), libwpd (for Wordperfect filter), libpaper, Graphviz-2.12, and Doxygen-1.5.2 (the last two to build API documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/koffice

Installation of KOffice

Install KOffice with the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix) --disable-debug \
    --disable-dependency-tracking &&
make
[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.

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: karbon, kchart, kexi, kformula, kivio, koconverter, koshell, kplato, kprconverter.pl, kpresenter, krita, krossrunner, kspread, ksqlite, ksqlite2, ksqlite2to3, 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.

kexi

is an integrated data management application.

kformula

is a formula editor.

kivio

is a flowchart program.

kplato

is a project management application.

kpresenter

is a presentation builder/display program.

krita

is a painting and image editing application for KOffice..

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 2008-03-11 13:57:01 -0500