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When I type

$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice<tab>

I see there are 141 tab completions. All the language packs are there as well as several support packages.

But libreoffice itself is absent.

Recently the LibreOffice package has been added to the Debian 7 (Wheezy) repository.

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John La Rooy
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    Are you sure you want to do this? It runs slow on my Atom PC. – Alex Chamberlain Sep 05 '12 at 06:25
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    @AlexChamberlain, Well I am not planning to use it every day. Just thought it would be handy to be able to edit a file occasionally – John La Rooy Sep 05 '12 at 06:28
  • http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/armhf/libreoffice/download Seems to be there. Sounds odd that there would be a build problem that would make just that disappear from raspbian. – XTL Sep 05 '12 at 07:28
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    It sounds like a Raspbian bug. – Alex Chamberlain Sep 05 '12 at 08:12
  • Depending on your requirements for "editing a file" there might be better options. If you just need text files then gedit would be fine. If you need more rich document editing capabilities, then Abiword might be worth looking into. I haven't used it much myself, but it doesn support the OpenOffice document format. – Kibbee Sep 05 '12 at 12:49
  • The distribution http://www.bodhilinux.com/ (Ubuntu derivat) seem to support libreoffice at least someone reported it to work with it. I dunno why libreoffice is not available, maybe it's too much too build (biggest package I know of) – keiki Sep 05 '12 at 17:07

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On Debian Wheezy, libreoffice is a meta-package, which installs the following packages:

  • libreoffice-writer: Word processor
  • libreoffice-calc: Spreadsheet
  • libreoffice-impress: Presentation
  • libreoffice-draw: Drawing
  • libreoffice-base: Database
  • libreoffice-math: Equation editor
  • libreoffice-filter-mobiledev: Mobile Devices filters

Therefore, you can install the equivalent by running

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-writer libreoffice-calc libreoffice-impress libreoffice-draw libreoffice-base libreoffice-math libreoffice-filter-mobiledev
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    Aha. I had to apt-get update even to install libreoffice-writer and noticed that libreoffice is also installable now. – John La Rooy Sep 25 '12 at 13:48