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3Apache OpenOffice (AOO)
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6    The Apache OpenOffice project provides a full featured office productivity suite
7    based on open standards. It is the continuation of the OpenOffice.org project.
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9    For detailed information about Apache OpenOffice please visit
10    http://openoffice.apache.org/
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12    Apache OpenOffice is a very large project with many components and mainly
13    implemented in C++ but also in Java, Perl, Python and other languages.
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15    Currently supported platforms include:
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17        Microsoft Windows
18        Linux variants
19        FreeBSD
20        Mac OS X
21        OS/2
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23    OpenOffice is used by millions of users worldwide and with more than 100 million
24    downloads it is one of the most successful open source projects.
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26Getting the latest sources via Subversion
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29    You can always checkout the latest source via subversion using the following
30    command:
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32    svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk aoo
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34    For further information visit http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html
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36Building Apache OpenOffice
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39    Apache OpenOffice is a big project and depends on several other external libraries.
40    The list of prerequisites varies for the different platforms.
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42    A comprehensive and complete building guide can be found in the project wiki under
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44    http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO
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46    With having all prerequisites in place you can simply run
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48    cd aoo/main
49    autoconf
50    ./configure <configure_switches>
51    ./bootstrap
52    source *.set.sh
53    cd instsetoo_native
54    build --all
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56    Note that building OpenOffice can take several hours.
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58    The default build will produce a setup version (e.g. setup program on windows, dmg on Mac OS,
59    rpm and deb packages on Linux, pkg packages on Solaris) and an archived version. The output
60    can be found in the <output> directory in instsetoo_native/<output_dir>/Apache_OpenOffice/...
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