====================================================================== LibreOffice 3.4 ReadMe ====================================================================== For latest updates to this readme file, see http://www.libreoffice.org/welcome/readme.html This file contains important information about the LibreOffice software. You are recommended to read this information very carefully before starting installation. The LibreOffice community is responsible for the development of this product, and invites you to consider participating as a community member. If you are a new user, you can visit the LibreOffice site, where you will find lots of information about the LibreOffice project and the communities that exist around it. Go to http://www.libreoffice.org/. Is LibreOffice Really Free for Any User? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LibreOffice is free for use by everybody. You may take this copy of LibreOffice and install it on as many computers as you like, and use it for any purpose you like (including commercial, government, public administration and educational use). For further details see the license text packaged with this LibreOffice download. Why is LibreOffice Free for Any User? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use this copy of LibreOffice free of charge because individual contributors and corporate sponsors have designed, developed, tested, translated, documented, supported, marketed, and helped in many other ways to make LibreOffice what it is today - the world's leading Open Source productivity software for home and office. If you appreciate their efforts, and would like to ensure that LibreOffice continues to be available far into the future, please consider contributing to the project - see http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ for details. Everyone can make a contribution of some kind. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes on Installation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- System Requirements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or higher), XP, Vista, or Windows 7 * Pentium compatible PC (Pentium III or Athlon recommended) * 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended) * Up to 1.5 GB available hard disk space * 1024x768 resolution (higher resolution recommended), at least 256 colors Please be aware that administrator rights are needed for the installation process. Registration of LibreOffice as default application for Microsoft Office formats can be forced or suppressed by using the following command line switches with the installer: * /msoreg=1 will force registration of LibreOffice as default application for Microsoft Office formats. * /msoreg=0 will suppress registration of LibreOffice as default application for Microsoft Office formats. If you perform an administrative installation using setup /a, you need to make sure that the file msvc90.dll is installed on the system. This file is required for LibreOffice to start after an administrative installation. You can get the file from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF Please be aware that administrator rights are needed for the installation process. Please make sure you have enough free memory in the temporary directory on your system, and please ensure that read, write and run access rights have been granted. Close all other programs before starting the installation process. Installation of LibreOffice on Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have a previous version of LibreOffice already installed, then you will need to de-install it before proceeding further. For instructions on how to do that, please read the section below entitled Deinstallation of a Previous Version of LibreOffice. For instructions on how to install a language pack (after having installed the US English version of LibreOffice), please read the section below entitled Installing a Language Pack. When you unpack the downloaded archive, you will see that the contents have been decompressed into a sub-directory. Open a file manager window, and change directory to the one starting with "LibO_", followed by the version number and some platform information. This directory contains a subdirectory called "DEBS". Change directory to the "DEBS" directory. Right-click within the directory and choose "Open in Terminal". A terminal window will open. From the command line of the terminal window, enter the following command (you will be prompted to enter your root user's password before the command will execute): sudo dpkg -i *.deb The above dpkg command does the first part of the installation process. To complete the process, you also need to install the desktop integration packages. To do this, change directory to the "desktop-integration" directory that is within the "DEBS" directory, using the following command: cd desktop-integration Now run the dpkg command again: sudo dpkg -i *.deb The installation process is now completed, and you should have icons for all the LibreOffice applications in your desktop's Applications/Office menu. Installation of LibreOffice on Fedora, Suse, Mandriva and other Linux systems using RPM packages ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have a previous version of LibreOffice already installed, then you will need to de-install it before proceeding further. For instructions on how to do that, please read the section below entitled De-installation of a Previous Version of LibreOffice. For instructions on how to install a language pack (after having installed the US English version of LibreOffice), please read the section below entitled Installing a Language Pack. When you unpack the downloaded archive, you will see that the contents have been decompressed into a sub-directory. Open a file manager window, and change directory to the one starting with "LibO_", followed by the version number and some platform information. This directory contains a subdirectory called "RPMS". Change directory to the "RPMS" directory. Right-click within the directory and choose "Open in Terminal". A terminal window will open. From the command line of the terminal window, enter the following command (you will be prompted to enter your root user's password before the command will execute): For Fedora-based systems: su -c 'yum install *.rpm' For Mandriva-based systems: sudo urpmi *.rpm For other RPM-based systems (Suse, etc.): rpm -Uvh *.rpm The above command does the first part of the installation process. To complete the process, you also need to install the desktop integration packages. To do this, change directory to the "desktop-integration" directory that is within the "RPMS" directory, using the following command: cd desktop-integration Now run the installation command again: For Fedora-based systems: su -c 'yum install *redhat*.rpm' For Mandriva-based systems: sudo urpmi *mandriva*.rpm For other RPM-based systems (Suse, etc.): rpm -Uvh *suse*.rpm The installation process is now completed, and you should have icons for all the LibreOffice applications in your desktop's Applications/Office menu. Notes Concerning Desktop Integration for Linux Distributions Not Covered in the Above Installation Instructions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It should be easily possible to install LibreOffice on other Linux distributions not specifically covered in these installation instructions. The main aspect for which differences might be encountered is desktop integration. The desktop-integration directory also contains a package named libreoffice3.3-freedesktop-menus-3.3.1.noarch.rpm (or similar). This is a package for all Linux distributions that support the Freedesktop.org specifications/recommendations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org), and is provided for installation on other Linux distributions not covered in the aforementioned instructions. Installing a Language Pack ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Download the language pack for your desired language and platform. They are available from the same location as the main installation archive. From the Nautilus file manager, extract the downloaded archive into a directory (your desktop, for instance). Ensure that you have exited all LibreOffice applications (including the QuickStarter, if it is started). Change directory to the directory in which you extracted your downloaded language pack. Now change directory to the directory that was created during the extraction process. For instance, for the French language pack for a 32-bit Debian/Ubuntu-based system, the directory is named LibO_, plus some version information, plus Linux_x86_langpack-deb_fr. Now change directory to the directory that contains the packages to install. On Debian/Ubuntu-based systems, the directory will be DEBS. On Fedora, Suse or Mandriva systems, the directory will be RPMS. From the Nautilus file manager, right-click in the directory and choose the command "Open in terminal". In the terminal window you just opened, execute the command to install the language pack (with all of the commands below, you may be prompted to enter your root user's password): For Debian/Ubuntu-based systems: sudo dpkg -i *.deb For Fedora-based systems: su -c 'yum install *.rpm' For Mandriva-based systems: sudo urpmi *.rpm For other RPM-using s...
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