Building OpenOffice.org in Debian

Building OpenOffice.org in Debian


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Building OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 from the latest apt-gettable Debian sources.

You will need about 6 GB free space to build the OpenOffice.org Debian packgage yourself (assuming you only build english using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="lang=en-US"). You will also need space in /tmp, so please be sure, that your / partition is big enough or link /tmp to a partition will plenty of space.

Then put in the debian-sources source list entry for debian-unstable (aka sid) in to /etc/apt/sources.list and run

  apt-get update
  apt-get build-dep openoffice.org
  apt-get source openoffice.org

So, you should now have the source in your current directory and all needed packages for building OpenOffice.org. Change into the directory and start the build:

  dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot

and wait. :)

The build will package openoffice.org packages for all supported $ARCHES, and many langpackages (-l10n-??) and helppackages (-help-??).

Building using the latest packaging scripts/patches from Debian bzr/GNOME SVN

Here is how to get the sources for OpenOffice.org for Debian:

Get the following file from here: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
Untar it and go in the freshly-created directory:

$ tar xfvz openoffice.org_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
$ cd openoffice.org-2.2.1/

Then get the up to date baz archive contents and create the debian/ directory:

bzr whoami NAME <EMAIL> if you don't have a bzr id yet.
bzr co http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-openoffice/packages/openofficeorg/2.2.1/unstable
mv unstable debian

Then, you need the ooo-build tree. There's a rule in debian/rules to make it easier:

debian/rules get-ooo-build

If you want to exact ooo-build state with which the packages are built, you might want to look here, the tag is DEBIAN-x_y_z-a. You need to do the svn co manually then, though.

That gives you the tree. Now read

debian/README

to find out about how the packaging system works.

Last modified: Mon Jun 25 11:00:03 2007 MST - Last compiled: Mon Jun 25 11:00:07 2007 MST