Hi,
On Mon 06 August 2012 at 11:02 , Andre Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to let you know that over the weekend I played around
> with Ubuntu metapackages and came up with one that pulls in all
> packages that have to be installed in order to build Apache OpenOffice.
>
> I have put the relevant files in my public_html directory on
> people.apache.org (http://people.apache.org). Try it out by adding it as additional package
> repository and install package "build-aoo".
>
> A. With the synaptic package manager:
>
> 1. Open the repositories dialog via menu Settings->Repositories
>
> 2. Select tab page "Other Software"
>
> 3. Click the "Add..." button
>
> 4. Fill in after "APT line:"
> deb http://people.apache.org/~af/repository/ ./
>
> 5. Close all dialogs.
>
> 6. Update package list by clicking on the "Reload" button of the
> tool bar.
>
>
> B. or via the command line:
>
> 1. Add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> deb http://people.apache.org/~af/repository/ ./
> deb-src http://people.apache.org/~af/repository/ ./
>
> 2. Execute in a shell
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install build-aoo
>
>
> The build-aoo metapackage is not signed and on installation you will
> be asked whether you want to install it anyway.
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> Andre
Do we have any comparison information for AOO on Ubuntu vs. LibreOffice?
I ask b/c I'm consulting right now for a company distributing Ubuntu builds with LO and naturally
I am encouraging them to use AOO but I'd love to have numbers to abet good reasoning.
Thanks
Louis
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