OpenOffice available?

David Favor david at davidfavor.com
Fri May 11 14:11:48 UTC 2018


Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> LibreOffice is now the defacto standard free office application, I would 
> say. It forked from OpenOffice a while back, and whilst OpenOffice is 
> largely in decline, LibreOffice is far from it. For the reasons why, ask 
> your favourite search engine.
> 
> https://www.libreoffice.org/
> 
> Not sure why though you are looking for a port, for either, from 
> MacPorts ? What benefit do you expect from just using the installer from 
> the above link. LibreOffice would be a huge build, so whilst presumably 
> possible (linux distributions do it) a lot of work for someone for what 
> I could see to be minimal gains...
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 11/05/18 15:01, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> Is there a port of OpenOffice available for the Mac?  I used to use it 
>> many moons ago on BSDi (a predecessor to FreeBSD), and quite liked it.
>>
>> I'm particularly interested in using Impress, but a few searches have 
>> been less than successful,
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>

You can just use the Mac Installer from the LibreOffice site.


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