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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:18:41 +0100
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet
Message-ID:  <50A4B371.8000004@eskk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20121115101235.4fccc098.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <50A4B0B0.2020009@eskk.nu> <20121115101235.4fccc098.freebsd@edvax.de>

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Polytropon skrev 2012-11-15 10:12:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:06:56 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
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>> Hello
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>> I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me.
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>> My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older
>> hardware is very long.
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> Why not use the binary install method (pkg_add -r)? The
> default options should work fine.

Maybe I'll try that. I never got into packages, I always ended up 
compiling dependencies anyway so I dropped it ;-)

Thanks!

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>> Is there an alternative to writer that does not take that long to build?
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> Yes, you can use abiword, part of the Gnome office suite, but
> it's a standalone word processor.

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>> If I can get an alternative to Calc also it's a plus but not a big problem.
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> There is gnumeric for that task, the "companion" of abiword. :-)
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