Hi Pedro, I wasn't able to install gconf on Ubuntu and there is no information on how to install the package on bing.com.
ubuntu@i-2dmws819:~/aoo-4.1.8/main$ sudo apt install libgconf2-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libgconf2-dev ________________________________ From: Pedro Lino <pedro.l...@mailbox.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 8:09 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org <dev@openoffice.apache.org>; Hao Wang <hao...@live.com> Subject: Re: Problem Building OpenOffice On Ubuntu 18.04 you need sudo apt-get install g++ gcc bison flex libarchive-zip-perl libcups2-dev libpam0g-dev \ gperf libfreetype6-dev libxaw7-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxrandr-dev patch \ libgconf2-dev libgnomevfs2-dev ant libgtk2.0-dev junit junit4 libidl-dev liborbit2-dev \ openjdk-8-jdk liblablgl-ocaml-dev Hope this helps ;) Regards, Pedro > On 01/13/2021 1:48 PM Hao Wang <hao...@live.com> wrote: > > > I'm building Open Office 4.1.8 on Ubuntu 18.04.1. I fixed the freetype > problem and I'm trying to fix new package missing errors. > > ________________________________ > From: Mechtilde > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 7:33 AM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Problem Building OpenOffice > > Hello, > > which version of Ubuntu do you use? > > which branch of AOO do you wnat to build? > > Kind regards > > Mechtilde > > > Am 13.01.21 um 14:13 schrieb Hao Wang: > > Dear OpenOffice Dev Team, > > > > I've been trying to build Open Office today, but I couldn't install > > freetype2 on my ubuntu machine. > > > > When I did a "./configure" in the main folder, I got the following error : > > > > checking whether freetype is available... checking for FREETYPE... no > > configure: error: Package requirements (freetype2 >= 2.0 ) were not met: > > > > No package 'freetype2' found > > > > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you > > installed software in a non-standard prefix. > > > > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables FREETYPE_CFLAGS > > and FREETYPE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. > > See the pkg-config man page for more details. > > > > Then I downloaded freetype 2 and installed it into /usr/local/freetype and > > added /usr/local/freetype in the .bashrc file , but I got the same error. > > > > Best Regards, > > Hao Wang > > > > -- > Mechtilde Stehmann > ## Apache OpenOffice > ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacOSX, Windows und OS/2 > ## Debian Developer > ## PGP encryption welcome > ## F0E3 7F3D C87A 4998 2899 39E7 F287 7BBA 141A AD7F