Other • Re: what does it take to build LibreOffice from source

It's not rocket science just because it's a large program. There are good instructions on how to compile libreoffice on Debian at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Dev ... ingOnLinux. The only additional thing I've had to do was install autotools-dev as well but that may have been some quirk on my system.

Patience is indeed required, the compilation process has been running for 3 hours so far on my Pi 5 16GB, it seems to use '-j 4' so scheduling four jobs at the 'same' time. Memory usage seems to be mostly for file caches:

Code:

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   availableMem:           16219        2867        2603         496       11394       13351Swap:            199           0         199

<edit> It took 4h50m to compile.

Statistics: Posted by jamesh — Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:14 pm