Michael C. Robinson wrote: > I'm thinking that LibreOffice may require Gnome or KDE.
I've run LibreOffice on a Debian system without Gnome. There's a GTK+ version ( http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/libreoffice-gtk ). Chakra Linux is very strictly qt/KDE based and I believe they either run LibreOffice as a bundle (because it is GTK+ based) or were talking about switching to Calligra ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligra_Suite ). Checking the KDE version of LibreOffice from Debian ( http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/libreoffice-kde ) there are still GTK+ dependencies listed. >I've been pursuing a Gnome installation for a few different reasons. Education, I need to understand what is in a Linux system because I want to become Linux certified. You can run a GUI friendly system perfectly well without Gnome or KDE. Gnome is only one of many desktops available for Linux. Mate and Cinnamon are forks of Gnome that various groups are working on because they're not happy with certain aspects of Gnome. Plus, there's XFCE, LXDE, KDE, Razor-qt, Equinox Desktop Environment, Enlightenment and others. You don't need to run a specific desktop environment to run most programs. However, you may have to build and/or install libraries specific for a particular desktop to get certain applications to run. >Aside from adding some sort of PDF reader There are a wide variety of PDF readers that run with several different GUI libraries, everything from X Windows to SDL to GTK+ to Qt, etc. You might want to consider what back-end you want to use for your PDF reader (not just what GUI library) as the back-end will affect speed and functionality. Many use poppler, but mupdf is becoming popular because it's fast and efficient. Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
