[OpenIndiana-discuss] LibreOffice

[Paolo Marcheschi]

On 10/22/13 06:27 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>
>> It seems that the only usable libreoffice runs on Sonicle
>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xstreamos/) distribution.
>> The distro is not yet ready, and it is very difficult to run libreoffice in other
>> distributions, like Openindiana.
> OK this particular binary may not work on a different platform but in principle
> one could compile it. Of course, one should use gcc and other GNU tools. On
> the other hand, Apache OpenOffice seems to compile more easily on OI, but
> I haven't tried anything.
So try it out , I have but without any success.
>> Using wine is possible to run the windows version in Openindiana, but it is not very stable.
>
> This is *not* a solution! Wine is for closed sourced things that run only on
> Windows...
ehehe, yes I agree. :-D

Another bad solution is to use virtualbox seamless mode with a small linux distro .


Paolo