[arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

Auguste Pop auguste at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 09:12:21 EDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Mauro Santos <registo.mailling at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03-08-2011 07:41, Hector Martinez-Seara wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm aware that recently there has been some changes in libreoffice
>> package. The problem is that yesterday I updated my system and
>> surprisingly only libreoffice-common was updated. By that I mean that
>> I mean that not base, writer, impress... were available after the
>> update, they dissapered. Moreover, if I make "pacman -S libreoffice"
>> only  "libreoffice-common" is targeted and there is no traces of
>> libreoffice-calc,  libreoffice-base,  libreoffice-draw.... The thing
>> is that there seems to be a container called libreoffice which it is
>> suppose to contain all this basic packages but in my case only
>> installs "libreoffice-common". What I'm doing wrong? I hope it is not
>> expected that we install one by one the components we want.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Hector
>
> My only (small) gripe is that libreoffice-gnome maybe should be called
> libreoffice-gtk.
>
> As a user of xfce I was slightly puzzled but the naming saying gnome as
> it sort of implies that it is specific to gnome, however the description
> clarifies that it applies to any gtk dependent DE. Maybe the naming
> should be general and the description should state gnome,xfce and
> anything else gtk dependent that is officially supported by arch.
>
> --
> Mauro Santos
>
and libreoffice-kde4 should be libreoffice-qt.


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