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generic_

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From: Jacksonville,FL US

Registered: 2008-12-21

Posts: 182

Only OpenOffice writer?

The only thing about open office I use is the writer. Is there a way to install just the writer?

Last edited by generic_ (2008-12-23 11:38:19)

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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,642

Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

Simply - no, it's not possible with the packages we are shipping.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,672

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Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

You could give AbiWord a try.

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andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

I'm not sure if it's possible, but maybe you could edit go-oo PKGBUILD on AUR to install only the base packages and writer.

edit: I mean it's possible to edit, I'm only not sure if it will work.

Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2008-12-23 15:29:47)

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dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

As a last resort, you could modify the official package's INSTALL script to rm everything not related to the writer - I'm not sure how pacman manages packages' internal filesystems, so that may cause massive b0rks.

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sirius

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-12-25

Posts: 68

Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

From LWN Weekly, December 25, 2008:

We asked openSUSE developers to share a little about their views of the best new features or what they are most excited about? We will conclude this article with their responses.

Michael Meeks:

My favourite OpenOffice.org feature, and a world-first, is the split build; this allows you to quickly compile just 'writer' against your installed libraries (finally, like all other applications); so you can get involved with OO.o much more easily.

andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

From LWN Weekly, December 25, 2008:

We asked openSUSE developers to share a little about their views of the best new features or what they are most excited about? We will conclude this article with their responses.

Michael Meeks:

My favourite OpenOffice.org feature, and a world-first, is the split build; this allows you to quickly compile just 'writer' against your installed libraries (finally, like all other applications); so you can get involved with OO.o much more easily.

Do you know if he's talking about Sun's OpenOffice or Suse's fork (also called Go-OO)?

As I said, go-oo-bin-base (from aur) downloads some pre-compiled rpms and pack them all in a single package for Arch. By editing go-oo-bin-base, you can see that the rpms are split in packages as core, writer, calc, etc. He can edit it to only install the packages he wants, probably core and writer.

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sirius

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-12-25

Posts: 68

Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

Do you know if he's talking about Sun's OpenOffice or Suse's fork (also called Go-OO)?

As I said, go-oo-bin-base (from aur) downloads some pre-compiled rpms and pack them all in a single package for Arch. By editing go-oo-bin-base, you can see that the rpms are split in packages as core, writer, calc, etc. He can edit it to only install the packages he wants, probably core and writer.

I think he's talking about the packages included in openSUSE 11.1.

gladstone

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Registered: 2009-01-03

Posts: 74

Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

There are a few go-oo packages in AUR.

Firstly, I see the seperate packages for calc, base (etc. -- but strangely no writer package) all depend on 'go-oo-base', so why install these packages?

Secondly, how can I edit the PKGBUILD of go-oo-bin-base to only install what I want? -- I see a few (counter-intuative) "-calc" etc. lines in there, so it doesn't look as straight forward as it should be.

andrew123456

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Registered: 2008-08-31

Posts: 32

Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

i know this is a super old thread, but thought i would add that i successfully got this working, i compiled go-oo-bin-base from AUR with only writer. i edited the PKGBUILD and removed the references for calc, impress, draw - all the stuff i didn't want. the result is go-oo using only about 150mb instead of the 500mb!

hatten

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From: Sweden, Borlange

Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 736

Re: Only OpenOffice writer?

Could you upload it to the AUR? I'm definitely interested.