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MartinMPL

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Registered: 2012-03-02

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] Removing components of LibreOffice

Hello,
I just installed #! on my Eee PC 701 4GB after trying several other distros, and I'm somewhat new to linux in general.
I installed LibreOffice but I only need Writer, Calc and Impress, so I would like to remove Draw and Base to save some memory (already at 2.49/3.47GiB). Is this possible? I hope this wasn't already asked

Last edited by MartinMPL (2012-03-02 16:50:56)

CBizgreat!

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 1,608

Re: [SOLVED] Removing components of LibreOffice

Good question, don't have a good answer. Am sure much is poss through the powa of #! though. Don't have libreoffice installed, messing around with apt-get to simulate an install to see what packages are involved.

Returned ...

libreoffice-core
libreoffice-calc
libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-draw
libreoffice-math
libreoffice-base
libreoffice-report-builder-bin
libreoffice-filter-mobiledev
libreoffice-java-common

So @ least let's ya know which packages are involved and their names. Can remove offending stuff in synaptic or terminal, though would pay close attention to anything else that may get removed along with. Remove some stuff see if libreoffice breaks, reinstall if needed and go on like that. Not really sure why libreoffice would use such an amount of RAM. Would think if an app isn't in use wouldn't do that. Maybe libreoffice loads the whole shebang when it's launched ? Imo that's a ridiculous amount of RAM for an office suite to need and removing stuff you don't want, if it doesn't break anything would save you a tad of diskspace.

An example of removing one of those packages in terminal.

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-base

Will tell ya how much diskspace will be recovered and/or any affected packages that would occur from removing the sucker. If breaks could always just reinstall the package(s) to fix it I guess. Assuming they are available in the statler software repo ? All this is o course done @ YOUR own RISK as to any borkage, headache or time needed to fix anything that results. It's not a big deal and doubt much of anything will befall. Feel better adding disclaimers though.

vll !

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-03-02 14:49:06)

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ivanovnegro

Ivan #000000

From: unstable madness

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 5,431

Re: [SOLVED] Removing components of LibreOffice

Just remove maybe first all of LibreOffice as you installed it with all recommends:

apt-get remove libreoffice

An autoremove will get rid of the rest I guess:

apt-get autoremove

but pay attention if it wants to remove something else than LibreOffice.

Then install only libreoffice-writer, that is what you want:

apt-get --no-install-recommends install libreoffice-writer

That should do the trick.

If for any reason LibreOffice should look ugly, install the Gtk appearance:

apt-get --no-install-recommends install libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-style-tango

Edit: Sorry, forgot, you need also Calc and Impress, install it the same way as above without recommends step by step. Debian makes much automatically, that is great but if you do not need it, just without recommends, it is versatile.

Last edited by ivanovnegro (2012-03-02 15:06:13)

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CBizgreat!

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 1,608

Re: [SOLVED] Removing components of LibreOffice

Afterthought babble too:

Could always monitoring in terminal with top for awhile to see what's using what ? Open terminal ..

top

Press the q key to exit top or o course x out of the terminal. Still sounds like a massive amount of system resources for an office suite to use, YIKES ...

ps, And thanks for those tips Ivan, kewl stuff what can be done with apt.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-03-02 15:12:01)

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Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !)

MartinMPL

Member

Registered: 2012-03-02

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Removing components of LibreOffice

Wow thanks for the help, I'll try what Ivan suggested. and edit this post

Edit: Ok that worked almost perfectly, except it seems that impress needs draw to function? I installed impress again with apt-get --no-install-recommends install libreoffice-impress, but it still installed draw along with it. Trying to remove draw afterwards would remove impress too. This isn't really a problem though, as together they only take about 12 mb of disk space apparently. So I guess this is a problem solved Thank you all very much for the help.

Last edited by MartinMPL (2012-03-02 15:57:25)

zengrapefruit

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Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 280

Re: [SOLVED] Removing components of LibreOffice

To add to this: if you use synaptic, there's an option under Settings > Preferences > General that replicates/works like "--no-install-recommends". Untick "Consider recommended packages as dependencies." (third box down).