>>>On 10.01.20 18:09, David Johnson wrote: >>> The environment I work in: >>> >>> Ubuntu 19.10 >>> LibreOffice 6.3.3.2 >>> >>> The LibreOffice SDK requires a path to a LibreOffice installation: >>> >>> "*OFFICE_HOME*: Path to an existing LibreOffice installation, e.g. >>> "/opt/libreoffice8". Be sure that it is not a user installation only." >>> >>> My question: can I use the LibreOffice that is in the Ubuntu repository >>> for this purpose? >>> >>> In other words, will the following suffice: >>> >>> $ sudo apt-get install libreoffice >>> >>> and then I tried to find the installation directory, which seems to be: >>> >>> /usr/lib/libreoffice/ >> >>yes and no. >> >>if you install the SDK from Ubuntu repository too then you have to use >>the Ubuntu libreoffice package. i'm not sure what it's called; in Fedora >>it's "libreoffice-sdk". > >Why is that so? (I pose this question just for improving my understanding of >the whole process.) If you manually download an SDK version (so from The >Document Foundation (TDF) site) that is compatible with the LibreOffice that >is in the repository of a given Linux distribution, shouldn't that also work? > >I did grep through the Ubuntu repositories and I found: > >libreoffice-dev - office productivity suite -- SDK -- architecture-dependent >parts > >That looks quite promising.
In the meanwhile I have tried installing the libreoffice-dev package -- with success! It turns out doing this installed all the required libraries/headers needed. Now, the LibreOffice extension examples seem to compile successfully. >>if you install the SDK from TDF upstream packages you have to install >>LibreOffice from TDF upstream packages. >> >>> Is this adequate? Or is this "only a user installation"? >> >>i'm not sure what "user installation" refers to here, but possibly it is >>the user configuration directory, cf. soffice -env:UserInstallation=... > >Thanks for the tip! Perhaps someone else can confirm this? If the semantics of >"user installation" is not clear to you, then it is definitely not clear to a >humble beginner in LibreOffice extension development (like me ;-( ). I now also think I know what they mean with "user installation". In probably all Linuxdistributions, many applications have two variants, a normal variant and a "developer's" variant. In Ubuntu these carry the postfix "-dev". See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1157192/what-do-the-dev-packages-in-the-linux-package-repositories-actually-contain I think that https://api.libreoffice.org/docs/install.html uses the phrase "user installation" to refer to the non-developer variant of the application in the package repository. For an experienced Linux developer this may clear, but I think many people would be helped if this would be explained a bit more. (Something like: "Install the developer's package of LibreOffice that is present in the repository of your Linux distribution, or install LibreOffice manually from ... . Examples of developer's packages on several distro's are: Ubuntu: libreoffice-dev; Fedora: libreoffice-sdk, etc.") _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
