Post 2: Download and install LibreOffice

Even Slackware's full DVD install does not seem to come with LibreOffice, so I had to manually download the binaries from OpenOffice.org.

Step1: Download the appropriate tar file from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=src&version=4.0.3. I assume that the first file should be alright.

Step2: Go to the directory where you downloaded the file and do the following. For example

cd /home/rahul/Downloads
unxz libreoffice-4.0.3.3.tar.xz
tar -xf libreoffice-4.0.3.3.tar
cd /libreoffice-4.0.3.3

Step3: Now, you are inside libreoffice-4.0.3.3. You need to do the following:

./configure
make
make install


Problems you might face:

PERL:
 
- You may be told that certain Perl modules aren't found. You need to follow the subsequent commands to solve the issue. (You may be prompted to install cpan):

$ su -
cpan
cpan> install Archive::Zip
cpan>quit

JAVA:

- Problem of the sort of 'JDK not found'
Follow this. If that didn't help, see if this tells you where you are going wrong.

krb5_sendauth (KERBEROS):

- 'could not find function 'krb5_sendauth' required for Kerberos 5'

Go here and download and install the appropriate package.

Gnome-VFS:

- Download your version of gnome-vfs here and install it using the following command (also present on the site):

# upgradepkg --install-new gnome-vfs-2.24.4-x86_64-1sl.txz

Junit:

- Chances are that you will be informed about the unavailability of 'Junit' . It is safe to ignore junit. You do this by configuring without junit:

./configure --without-junit


 make install: throws an error when I try running it. Specifically, the error is as follows:

ERROR: Include file cliureversion.mk not found!
: ADD_INCLUDE_FILES = cliureversion.mk,clioootypesversion.mk at /home/rahul/Downloads/libreoffice-4.0.3.3/solenv/bin/modules/installer/worker.pm line 960.

 Once I figure out what the fix is, I will update the post.