[arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Wed Aug 3 09:32:08 EDT 2011


Excerpts from Auguste Pop's message of 2011-08-03 15:12:21 +0200:
> 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.

I'm not sure about this, it pulls in at least phonon, which is kde
specific.



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