Hi, On Mon 06 August 2012 at 11:02 , Andre Fischer wrote:
> Hi, > > I just wanted to let you know that over the weekend I played around > with Ubuntu metapackages and came up with one that pulls in all > packages that have to be installed in order to build Apache OpenOffice. > > I have put the relevant files in my public_html directory on > people.apache.org (http://people.apache.org). Try it out by adding it as > additional package > repository and install package "build-aoo". > > A. With the synaptic package manager: > > 1. Open the repositories dialog via menu Settings->Repositories > > 2. Select tab page "Other Software" > > 3. Click the "Add..." button > > 4. Fill in after "APT line:" > deb http://people.apache.org/~af/repository/ ./ > > 5. Close all dialogs. > > 6. Update package list by clicking on the "Reload" button of the > tool bar. > > > B. or via the command line: > > 1. Add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb http://people.apache.org/~af/repository/ ./ > deb-src http://people.apache.org/~af/repository/ ./ > > 2. Execute in a shell > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install build-aoo > > > The build-aoo metapackage is not signed and on installation you will > be asked whether you want to install it anyway. > > Comments are welcome. > > Andre Do we have any comparison information for AOO on Ubuntu vs. LibreOffice? I ask b/c I'm consulting right now for a company distributing Ubuntu builds with LO and naturally I am encouraging them to use AOO but I'd love to have numbers to abet good reasoning. Thanks Louis
