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====== Greenstone Extensions ====== | ====== Greenstone Extensions ====== | ||
- | ==== OpenOffice==== | + | ===== OpenOffice===== |
The Open Office extension provides a document conversion facility if **Open Office //or// LibreOffice** is already installed on the system. In order to use the Open Office extension, | The Open Office extension provides a document conversion facility if **Open Office //or// LibreOffice** is already installed on the system. In order to use the Open Office extension, | ||
- | * You will need [[http:// | + | * You will need [[http:// |
* you're on Windows and have OpenOffice/ | * you're on Windows and have OpenOffice/ | ||
* you're on Linux and have OpenOffice or LibreOffice installed in a location different from "/ | * you're on Linux and have OpenOffice or LibreOffice installed in a location different from "/ | ||
- | * Once you have Open Office set up, download the Greenstone extension for it, available in tar.gz and zip formats. The latest version is available from [[http:// | + | * Once you have Open Office set up, download the Greenstone extension for it, available in tar.gz and zip formats. The latest version is available from [[http:// |
- | * Before you can use this (or any other Greenstone extension), you will need to quit GLI and GS3-server if either are open and then you will need to relaunch GLI (or run Greenstone scripts) from a fresh command terminal, in order for the extension to become available in the Greenstone environment. (Once again, if you have openoffice or libreoffice installed outside the customary locations, then before doing so, make sure to have set up SOFFICE_HOME and updated the PATH environment variables.) | + | * Before you can use this (or any other Greenstone extension), you will need to quit GLI and GS3-server if either are open and then you will need to **relaunch GLI** (or run Greenstone scripts) from a **fresh command terminal**, in order for the extension to become available in the Greenstone environment. (Once again, if you have openoffice or libreoffice installed outside the customary locations, then before doing so, make sure to have set up SOFFICE_HOME and updated the PATH environment variables.) |
* With OpenOffice and the extension installed and the Greenstone environment set up for this, Greenstone' | * With OpenOffice and the extension installed and the Greenstone environment set up for this, Greenstone' | ||
+ | ==== User-contributed notes ==== | ||
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+ | === Getting LibreOffice=== | ||
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+ | * Don't use a snap or appimage version as these don't interface with Greenstone. | ||
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+ | LibreOffice is available directly from their website at: | ||
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+ | www.libreoffice.org/ | ||
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+ | These are the latest releases for most deb and rpm based linux | ||
+ | distributions and for windows and macOS. | ||
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+ | The packages are large, and in the case of deb packages are | ||
+ | themselves a collection of deb packages. | ||
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+ | === Issues with running LibreOffice in conjunction with Greenstone === | ||
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+ | Note that with these newer versions of the open office extension, you cannot already have an instance of OpenOffice running when using GLI, you will need to terminate any previously running instance. It is also unlikely that you can get a separate instance of OpenOffice running after quitting GLI. If you wish to do so, you will need to use Task Manager to terminate the open office process launched by the extension upon running GLI. | ||
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