[arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

Auguste Pop auguste at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 09:37:38 EDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder at lavabit.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
oh, i didn't install that. that was a blind guess. :-P

best regards,


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