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oldcastle

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Can we move OnlyOffice to a "community" or "extra" repo?

Hi,

I'm new here, so apologise if this is not the right subforum. Please advise.

I was having issues with LibreOffice and wanted to try something new. Then I tried OnlyOffice and it was an excellent surprise. For my needs, OO beats LO easily. It has a way better compatibility with Microsoft Office than LO. Plus, NO JAVA!

It’s also open source.

So, for now, it’s only available via AUR. I think it would be nice to move it to “extra” or “community” repository.

Any thoughts?

jasonwryan

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Re: Can we move OnlyOffice to a "community" or "extra" repo?

Packages are moved to the official repos when they are adopted by a dev.

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digitalone

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Re: Can we move OnlyOffice to a "community" or "extra" repo?

Java is optional for LO.

Stefan Husmann

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Re: Can we move OnlyOffice to a "community" or "extra" repo?

For inclusion in one of the main repos a real native build is needed (the AUR package just includes the binaries upstream provides). I do not find build instructions anywhere, though.

Trilby

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Re: Can we move OnlyOffice to a "community" or "extra" repo?

The source code is available but as you note build instructions appear absent.  There doesn't seem to be a Makefile or any other build system input or build script. (edit: nevermind, I missed it, see the next post)

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A PKGBUILD should be created for a native build and tested.  At that point it will be much easier for a dev / TU - and while it's certainly no guarantee that any of them would be interested in putting it in the main repos, I'm pretty sure this would hugely increase the odds (as in huge increase from 0% chance to some modest percent chance).

Last edited by Trilby (2022-05-01 13:21:37)

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progandy

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Re: Can we move OnlyOffice to a "community" or "extra" repo?

The source code is available but as you note build instructions appear absent.  There doesn't seem to be a Makefile or any other build system input or build script.

There is a makefile in the desktop-apps submodule. It seems to reference all the other submodules. I guess you clone the DesktopEditors repository and all submodules. Then enter the desktop-apps submodule and run make.
Edit: There is even documentation for an ubuntu build: https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/insta … mpile.aspx

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oldcastle

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Re: Can we move OnlyOffice to a "community" or "extra" repo?

Understood. Thanks.