Ubuntu Build Instructions

This tutorial will assume a stock Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) system as a starting point.

Obtaining ooo-build

One may obtain the stable 2.0.2 version of ooo-build via CVS with the following commands:

export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'
cvs login
cvs -z3 checkout -P ooo-build
cvs update -Pd -r ooo-build-2-0-2

You should then enter the ooo-build directory and run ./autogen.sh --with-distro=Ubuntu. Most likely you'll also want to add the --disable-kde flag (unless you're using Kubuntu).

Additional Required Packages

Packages may be obtained as follows:

 sudo apt-get install package_name [additional_package(s)]

To obtain the source, you need:

• cvs

To complete autogen.sh, you need:

• automake1.9
• build-essential
• libpam0g-dev
• libpng12-dev
• flex
• bison
• libgtk2.0-dev

For make to finish its configuration stage, you need:

• tcsh
• libcupsys2-dev
• java-gcj-compat-dev
• libarchive-zip-perl
• libjpeg62-dev
• libxml2-dev
• python-dev
• libdb4.3-dev
• libdb4.3-java-dev
• libcurl3-dev
• unixodbc-dev
• libldap2-dev
• mozilla-dev
• libnss-dev
• libsane-dev
• libxaw-headers
• libaudio-dev
• libsndfile1-dev
• libneon24-dev
• libgnomevfs2-dev
• kdebase-dev (KDE only?)
• libstartup-notification0-dev
• ant

• ??libmono-dev
• [please help populate the rest of this list!]

Failed patches

Some of the patches listed in ooo-build/patches/src680/apply may not apply successfully. You can try to comment them out in the apply file, but this is an experimental solution...

Tips

A shell script like the one below will alert your attention upon completion of the quite lengthy build process. Run it after ./download completes in place of make.

#!/bin/bash
echo "Starting 'make' wrapper..."
cd ~/ooo-build
make
echo "\n\nCompilation finished."
mplayer -really-quiet ~/Music/My_Music_File.mp3

Caveats

Don't do something silly like execute udatedb while make is in progress. This will result in locking the filesystem as read-only and cause the build to fail.

See also

• Building
• Debug Build Problems