OpenOffice.org. is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office. It is installed by fault in Ubuntu 10.10 and below. It is licensed under version 3 of the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
The metapackage installs all components of openoffice.org:
- openoffice.org-writer: Word processor
- openoffice.org-calc: Spreadsheet
- openoffice.org-impress: Presentation
- openoffice.org-draw: Drawing
- openoffice.org-base: Database
- openoffice.org-math: Equation editor
- openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev: Mobile Devices filters
- openoffice.org-filter-binfilter: legacy filters (e.g. StarOffice 5.2)
Functionality can be extended in OpenOffice.org by installing the following packages:
- hunspell-dictionary-*/myspell-dictionary-*: Hunspell/Myspell dictionaries
for use with OpenOffice.org
- openoffice.org-l10n-*: UI interface translation
- openoffice.org-help-*: User help
- openoffice.org-thesaurus-*: Thesauri for the use with OpenOffice.org
- openoffice.org-hyphenation-*: Hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org
- openoffice.org-gtk: Gtk UI Plugin, GNOME File Picker support,
QuickStarter for GNOMEs notification are
- openoffice.org-gnome: GNOME VFS, GConf backend
- openoffice.org-kde: KDE UI Plugin and KDE File Picker support
- menu: Will add openoffice.org menu entries for every Debian window manager.
- unixodbc: ODBC database support
- cups-bsd: Allows OpenOffice.org to detect your CUPS printer queues
automatically
- libsane: Use your sane-supported scanner with OpenOffice.org
- libxrender1: Speed up display by using Xrender library
- libgl1: OpenGL support
- openclipart-openoffice.org: Open Clip Art Gallery with OOo index files
- iceweasel | firefox | icedove | thunderbird | iceape-browser | mozilla-browser:
Mozilla profile with Certificates needed for XML Security...
- openjdk-6-jre | gcj-jre | java5-runtime:
Java Runtime Environment for use with OpenOffice.org
- pstoedit / imagemagick: helper tools for EPS thumbnails
- gstreamer0.10-plugins-*: GStreamer plugins for use with OOos media backend
- libpaper-utils: papersize detection support via paperconf
- libldap-2.4-2: LDAP client library; needed for OOo getting its profiles
from LDAP.