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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. |
* 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' | ||
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+ | ===== User-contributed notes ===== | ||
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+ | ==== Getting LibreOffice==== | ||
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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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+ | * Don't use a snap or appimage version as these don't interface with Greenstone. | ||
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+ | ==== Issues with running LibreOffice in conjunction with Greenstone ==== | ||
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