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koffice - Office suite for KDE ChangeLog

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http://www.koffice.org/

HOWTO

# koffice 1.4.2
# =============
# Note: the home page link is to www.koffice.org, which is down right now.

# This failed to build for me with errors mentioning libjasper.  I told it
# to skip that particular app, happened with another.  I removed the static
# lib, tried a shared lib.  Googled for a while.  Rebuilt several things.
# Tried someone else's package from linuxpackages.net  Eventually I just
# gave up and installed the koffice package from Slackware-current
# (it's also version 1.4.2).

# Slackware 8.1's 'koffice' package includes version 1.1.1, 9.0 and 9.1's
# include 1.2.1, 10.0's includes 1.3.1, 10.1's includes 1.3.5, and 10.2's
# includes 1.4.1
#
# Slackware 10.2 includes KDE 3.4.2

# Check out my KDE 3.5 howto for more info.

# If you ever want to uninstall koffice, cd into the source directory, run
# 'make uninstall' (as root), remove the source directory, and remove the
# tarball.

# Prerequisites:
# gawk
# sed
# grep
# gettext
# XFree86 or X.org
# zlib >= 1.1
# libpng
# libjpeg
# Perl
# Qt >= 3.3.2
# kdelibs
# aRts
# libxml2 >= 2.4.8 (recommended)
# libxslt >= 1.0.7 (recommended)
# doxygen
# ImageMagick
# wv2
# pkg-config
# freetype >= 2.0.0 (recommended)
# libart
# readline
# MySQL or PostgreSQL
# Python (optional)
# lcms
# Ghostscript (recommended)
# TeX (optional)

# I create a directory for KDE source directories and one for tarballs and
# put all of them in there
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src/kde ~/installed/kde

cd
test -f installed/kde/koffice-1.4.2.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/kde/koffice-1.4.2.tar.bz2 .
test -f installed/koffice-1.4.2.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/koffice-1.4.2.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f koffice-1.4.2.tar.bz2 &&
wget http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.4.2/src/koffice-1.4.2.tar.bz2

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "6b456fb7d54c84b11396b27a96ae0cf8  koffice-1.4.2.tar.bz2" | \
md5sum -c

find src/kde src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "koffice-*" \
-exec rm -r {} \;
cd src/kde
tar xjvf ~/koffice-1.4.2.tar.bz2
cd koffice-1.4.2
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --disable-debug
make

# Become root to install it
su

test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg koffice
make install

# Add /opt/kde/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf if it's not already in there:
grep "^/opt/kde/lib$" /etc/ld.so.conf > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
echo "/opt/kde/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
ldconfig

# Create a /etc/profile.d/kde.sh
cat << EOF > /etc/profile.d/kde.sh
#!/bin/sh
KDEDIR=/opt/kde
PATH="\$PATH:\$KDEDIR/bin"
MANPATH="\$MANPATH:\$KDEDIR/man"
export KDEDIR PATH MANPATH
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/kde.sh

# Become yourself again
exit

# Update your non-root shell
echo $PATH | grep -q "/opt/kde/bin" ||
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/kde/bin"
echo $MANPATH | grep -q "/opt/kde/man" ||
export MANPATH="$MANPATH:/opt/kde/man"

cd
rm -f installed/kde/koffice-*.tar.* \
installed/koffice-*.tar.*
mv koffice-1.4.2.tar.bz2 installed/kde/