Apache OpenOffice (AOO) ======================= The Apache OpenOffice project provides a full featured office productivity suite based on open standards. It is the continuation of the OpenOffice.org project. For detailed information about Apache OpenOffice please visit http://openoffice.apache.org/ Apache OpenOffice is a very large project with many components and mainly implemented in C++ but also in Java, Perl, Python and other languages. Currently supported platforms include: Linux variants Windows Mac OS X OS/2 OpenOffice is used by millions of users worldwide and with more than 100 million downloads it is one of the most successful open source projects. Getting the latest sources via Subversion ========================================= You can always checkout the latest source via subversion using the following command: svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/trunk aoo For further information visit http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html Building Apache OpenOffice =========================== Apache OpenOffice is a big project and depends on several other external libraries. The list of prerequisites varies for the different platforms. A comprehensive and complete building guide can be found in the project wiki under http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO With having all prerequisites in place you can simply run cd aoo/main autoconf ./configure ./bootstrap source *.set.sh cd instsetoo_native build --all Note that building OpenOffice can take several hours. The default build will produce a setup version (e.g. setup program on windows, dmg on Mac OS, rpm and deb packages on Linux, pkg packages on Solaris) and an archived version. The output can be found in the directory in instsetoo_native//OpenOffice/...