On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 08:10:41AM -0600, Larry Evans wrote: > So: > > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_aoo34.html > > where it says gnome is required is wrong? IOW, it should just > say libgtk2?
Gnome is only a requirement for accessibility to work (via Orca), but you can use OpenOffice in any desktop environment as long as you have gtk2 libraries. > > What desktop environment do you have? > My os is ubuntu 10.04 LTS. However, it appears I've also > got gnome because on my panel, when I select System, > it shows an "About Gnome" item. What's confusing is > that synaptic shows gnome is not installed. If you have the default Ubuntu installation, then you already have all gtk2 libraries :) > > You > > don't need to install gnome, and sure you have gtk2 libraries already > > installed ;) > Yep, synaptic shows several packages installed with names > starting with libgtk2, in particular it shows: > > libgtk2.0-dev packages ending with *-dev are for development, you don't need them unless you are planning to develop with that library. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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