Re: [libreoffice-users] How to reduce installation size?

Hi :)
Dohh!  Dunno why i thought 350Mb.

Going back to the space limitations ...
Are you sure you need all the apps?  If you only ever seem to use
Writer then perhaps AbiWord might be more than enough.  If you only do
spreadsheets then Gnumeric is sometimes even better than Calc or Excel
because it's a dedicated app that doesn't have to try to fit-in with
anything else.  I dunno how many apps you would need before it took up
as much space as the full suite.

AbiWord
http://www.abisource.com/download/

Gnumeric
https://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/downloads.shtml

However, since you are on debian it might be better to use one of your
package managers.  the command-line one might be something like

sudo apt-get abiword gnumeric

or just miss off whichever of those you don't really need.  I'm not
quite as keen on AbiWord because back when i used to use it i had to
use
File - "Save As ... "
to get into MS formats whereas LibreOffice/OpenOffice allows you to
set MS formats as their defaults.  Nowadays i tend to default to ODF
anyway and only do one-offs into Microsquish formats when someone
grumbles about not being able to read something i've sent.  Nowadays
i'll do that while in the email i now grumble about how limited MS is
and suggest they "install LibreOffice or OpenOffice or any of the
other wide variety of programs that can handle all the formats that MS
can't".  It's not good to set the defaults to be non-ODF so maybe it's
about time i try AbiWord again.

Regards from
Tom :)









On 28 November 2013 06:21, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 19:19 27/11/2013 +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
> > 350Mb is about the size of a Cd.
>
>
> Ask for a refund: it's faulty.
>
> Brian Barker
>
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