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# goffice 0.1.2
# =============
# Prerequisites:
# gawk
# intltool >= 0.27.2
# perl
# iconv
# gettext
# bison
# flex
# sed
# grep
# pkg-config
# cairo >= 0.5.0 (if --with-cairo is specified)
# gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0
# libglade-2.0 >= 2.3.6
# libgnomeprint-2.2 >= 2.8.2
# libart-2.0 >= 2.3.11
# The next three are required unless --without-gnome is specified
# gconf-2.0
# libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.0.0
# libgsf-gnome-1 >= 1.12.2 (this lib is part of libgsf)
# glib >= 2.6.3
# libgsf-1 >= 1.13.3
# libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.12
# pango >= 1.8.1

cd
test -f installed/goffice-0.1.2.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/goffice-0.1.2.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f goffice-0.1.2.tar.bz2 &&
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/goffice/0.1/\
goffice-0.1.2.tar.bz2

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "74de4548603a35f8cdf95b52ac31d8c6 goffice-0.1.2.tar.bz2" | md5sum -c

mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "goffice-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xjvf ~/goffice-0.1.2.tar.bz2
cd goffice-0.1.2
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# If make fails mentioning an error related to gog_renderer_cairo_clip_push
# you may want to rebuild (make distclean, then configure again) it
# without specifying --with-cairo. These may shed some light on it:
# http://www.mail-archive.com/gnumeric-list@gnome.org/msg00680.html
# http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/goffice/

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib \
--with-cairo
make

# Become root to install it
su

rm -f /usr/lib/libgoffice-1.*
make install
ldconfig

# I don't need these because I only read/write (well) English:
find /usr/share/locale -type f -name "goffice.mo" -exec rm {} \;

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/goffice-*.tar.*
mv goffice-0.1.2.tar.bz2 installed/

# If you ever want to uninstall goffice, cd into the source directory,
# run 'make uninstall', remove the source directory, then remove the
# tarball.