Hey, > I'm a computer science student and want to get into the libre office > development. I went on to IRC # libre office channel for sometime and got > help regarding the git repository cloning and have fetched the source code.
Welcome on board! :-) > I already have Libreoffice installed on my ubuntu 10.04 system using PPA; > so if I try to buld it libre office from the source which I just fetched > will it affect the existing installation of libre office. No, doesn't necessarily have to ... > Do I need to remove the pre exesting libre office before I start building > from source ? ... and no, not at all. You can have your own (development/debugging) instance of LibO running from the fetched source tree. Issuing 'make dev-install' after building with 'make' will create such instance for you, it will then live in /wherever/libo/source/tree/is/install/program/ B. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
