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#1 2009-07-17 09:20:26

samsom
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Office equivalent for Arch

Hi,
I am a LInux Newbie and have been using Ubuntu for a a few months now. Quite interested in Arch and was thinking of taking the plunge. Could you please tell me if OpenOffice exists for Arch...or is there an alternative that helps open and edit Microsoft office documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
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#2 2009-07-17 09:37:50

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Re: Office equivalent for Arch

you can search packages here http://www.archlinux.org/packages/
(and yes, openoffice is in the repo)

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#3 2009-07-17 09:37:52

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Re: Office equivalent for Arch

samsom wrote:

Hi,
I am a LInux Newbie and have been using Ubuntu for a a few months now. Quite interested in Arch and was thinking of taking the plunge. Could you please tell me if OpenOffice exists for Arch...or is there an alternative that helps open and edit Microsoft office documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Cheers
Samsom

Yes, OpenOffice is in the Arch repositories, if that is what you mean by "OpenOffice for Arch". You can install it with a simple

# pacman -S openoffice-base

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#4 2009-07-17 09:43:00

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Re: Office equivalent for Arch

Thanks a lot, guys. 2 replies in less than 10 minutes. Thats brilliant community support. Definitely installing Arch.


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#5 2009-07-17 09:54:53

whordijk
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Re: Office equivalent for Arch

samsom wrote:

Thanks a lot, guys. 2 replies in less than 10 minutes. Thats brilliant community support. Definitely installing Arch.

Nice cool Make sure to check out the ArchWiki: I think you'll find it to be very informative and extensive!

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#6 2009-07-17 11:40:08

Chokkan
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Re: Office equivalent for Arch

You can also try go-openoffice.


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#7 2009-07-17 14:39:34

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Re: Office equivalent for Arch

Also Abiword is nice.


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