Re: Please recommend office package on NetBSD

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 30 October 2015 at 17:38, Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
> I am using NetBSD 7.0 i386.
>
> I do not create documents using office software, but have no control over
> people sending those to me. So need a minimal reader for open/MS office
> files.
>
> Am trying to build misc/libreoffice and somewhere gave up due to
> dependencies. (I mean why do I need postgresql for above simple purpose)?
>
> May be there are other users who face above situation and the frustration.
> So curious how they work around this.
>
> Besides trying to compile, I also tried pkgin, though looks like binary
> repo doesn't have it.
>
> Tried libreoffice4-bin, though looks like it's too big a package.
>
> Are there ways, such as increasing more options to cut down functionality
> in libreoffice?
>
> Alternatively is there any other package that will be light and quick to
> install and serve above limited purpose?
>

I've recently installed libreoffice4 from binaries on NetBSD7/amd64
(too scared to try building libreoffice5 from sources) and I'm quite
happy, even without a full set of fonts.


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Ottavio