OpenOffice.org



OpenOffice.org. is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office. It is installed by fault in Ubuntu 10.10 and below. It is licensed under version 3 of the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.

The metapackage installs all components of openoffice.org:
 * openoffice.org-writer: Word processor
 * openoffice.org-calc: Spreadsheet
 * openoffice.org-impress: Presentation
 * openoffice.org-draw: Drawing
 * openoffice.org-base: Database
 * openoffice.org-math: Equation editor
 * openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev: Mobile Devices filters
 * openoffice.org-filter-binfilter: legacy filters (e.g. StarOffice 5.2)

Functionality can be extended in OpenOffice.org by installing the following packages: for use with OpenOffice.org QuickStarter for GNOMEs notification are automatically Mozilla profile with Certificates needed for XML Security... Java Runtime Environment for use with OpenOffice.org from LDAP.
 * hunspell-dictionary-*/myspell-dictionary-*: Hunspell/Myspell dictionaries
 * openoffice.org-l10n-*: UI interface translation
 * openoffice.org-help-*: User help
 * openoffice.org-thesaurus-*: Thesauri for the use with OpenOffice.org
 * openoffice.org-hyphenation-*: Hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org
 * openoffice.org-gtk: Gtk UI Plugin, GNOME File Picker support,
 * openoffice.org-gnome: GNOME VFS, GConf backend
 * openoffice.org-kde: KDE UI Plugin and KDE File Picker support
 * menu: Will add openoffice.org menu entries for every Debian window manager.
 * unixodbc: ODBC database support
 * cups-bsd: Allows OpenOffice.org to detect your CUPS printer queues
 * libsane: Use your sane-supported scanner with OpenOffice.org
 * libxrender1: Speed up display by using Xrender library
 * libgl1: OpenGL support
 * openclipart-openoffice.org: Open Clip Art Gallery with OOo index files
 * iceweasel | firefox | icedove | thunderbird | iceape-browser | mozilla-browser:
 * openjdk-6-jre | gcj-jre | java5-runtime:
 * pstoedit / imagemagick: helper tools for EPS thumbnails
 * gstreamer0.10-plugins-*: GStreamer plugins for use with OOos media backend
 * libpaper-utils: papersize detection support via paperconf
 * libldap-2.4-2: LDAP client library; needed for OOo getting its profiles