It looks like Oracle is trying to rush their OpenOffice 3.3.0 ahead of the LibreOffice fork. Yesterday I thought there was actually going to be a stable release but no, it was only their tenth release candidate. Do we really care?

Anyway, there is a fourth release candidate available now of LibreOffice. Obviously I built some cool packages for Slackware. An official  LibreOffice 3.3.0 is not far off, and what we already have in this Release Candidate looks really good.

I want to stress again: my packages have been compiled from source, as opposed to repackaging the official RPM files. My packages are native Slackware stuff. Language packs for a lot of non-english locales are available – anyone miss their own language here?

Get a dictionary for your language at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/dictionaries . I would like to have feedback about including dictionaries for some of the major languages in the build.

My Slackware LibreOffice package and language packs – and associated build scripts – can be downloaded from the usual locations (it may take a little while for the UK mirror to be updated):

There is an rsync access as well:

  • rsync://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/

I am running LibreOffice on Slackware 13.1 as well as -current without issues. Read my older blog posts for my experiences with LibreOffice, and tips on compiling it from source.

Have fun, Eric