LibreOffice-4.1.1

Installation of LibreOffice

Warning

Untaring the libreoffice-4.1.1.2 tarball as root has the curious effect of changing the ownership of the parent directory to a user with numerical id 11012 and with the permissions set to allow read, write and execute for that user only! If you untared as root in your home folder you could end up unable to log in again. If you untared it in /usr you would find your user account unable to access any file in /usr.

You can avoid this unpleasantness by not untaring it as root. If you must untar it as root pass the option --no-overwrite-dir to tar. This is the default when you untar as a user but has to be passed as an option when untaring as root:

tar -xf libreoffice-4.1.1.2.tar.xz --no-overwrite-dir &&
cd libreoffice-4.1.1.2

Unpack the dictionaries file and create symlinks to tarballs from the source directory so they won't get downloaded again (it is not necessary to unpack the help nor the translations tarballs):

install -dm755 src &&

tar -xf ../libreoffice-dictionaries-4.1.1.2.tar.xz --no-overwrite-dir --strip-components=1 &&

ln -sv ../../libreoffice-dictionaries-4.1.1.2.tar.xz src/ &&
ln -sv ../../libreoffice-help-4.1.1.2.tar.xz src/

If you have downloaded the translations tarball, create a symlink:

ln -sv ../../libreoffice-translations-4.1.1.2.tar.xz src/

Note

During the build process, some packages will be downloaded (including the ones listed as recommended and optional dependencies) if they are not present on the system. Doing so, build time may be different for everyone.

In the rest of the page, locales "en-US" and "pt-BR" are examples; the user will change them to suit his needs - you might want to read the "Command Explanations", further below, before proceeding. Due to the large size of the package, the user may prefer to install in /opt, instead of /usr. In order to do that, replace /usr by /opt/libreoffice-4.1.1.2 in the rest of the page, except in the commands fixing the menu icons. Prepare LibreOffice for compilation by running the following commands:

sed -e "/gzip -f/d"   \
    -e "s|.1.gz|.1|g" \
    -i bin/distro-install-desktop-integration &&
sed -e "/distro-install-file-lists/d" -i Makefile.in &&

chmod -v +x bin/unpack-sources &&
sed -e "s/target\.mk/langlist\.mk/"                \
    -e "s/tar -xf/tar -x --strip-components=1 -f/" \
    -e "/tar -x/s/lo_src_dir/start_dir/"           \
    -i bin/unpack-sources &&

patch -Np1 -i ../libreoffice-4.1.1.2-system_neon-1.patch    &&
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr              \
             --sysconfdir=/etc          \
             --with-vendor="BLFS"       \
             --with-lang="en-US pt-BR"  \
             --with-help                \
             --with-alloc=system        \
             --without-java             \
             --disable-gconf            \
             --disable-odk              \
             --disable-postgresql-sdbc  \
             --enable-python=system     \
             --with-system-boost        \
             --with-system-cairo        \
             --with-system-curl         \
             --with-system-expat        \
             --with-system-harfbuzz     \
             --with-system-icu          \
             --with-system-jpeg         \
             --with-system-lcms2        \
             --with-system-libpng       \
             --with-system-libxml       \
             --with-system-mesa-headers \
             --with-system-neon         \
             --with-system-nss          \
             --with-system-odbc         \
             --with-system-openldap     \
             --with-system-openssl      \
             --with-system-poppler      \
             --with-system-redland      \
             --with-system-zlib         \
             --with-parallelism=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)

The instructions below will only build the package without running any unit tests. If you prefer to run the unit tests, replace make build with make

Build the package:

make build

Now, as the root user:

make distro-pack-install

If the dictionaries have been built, again as root user:

chown -cR 0:0 dictionaries/                                                  &&
mkdir -pv /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/dict-en                      &&
cp -vR dictionaries/en/*    /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/dict-en    &&
mkdir -pv /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/dict-pt-BR                   &&
cp -vR dictionaries/pt_BR/* /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/dict-pt-BR

In the following, do not replace /usr by /opt/libreoffice-4.1.1.2. If installed in /opt and there are no icons in the new items of the desktop menu, optionally run the following commands, as root user (it may be necessary to logout the session, before the icons appear):

mkdir -pv /usr/share/pixmaps &&
for i in writer base calc draw impress math startcenter writer
do
  ln -svf /opt/libreoffice-4.1.1.2/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/libreoffice-$i.png \
          /usr/share/pixmaps/
done
unset i