How to reduce installation size?

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#1

Reduce the number of extensions, galleries, templates, etc., to start. You might need to do this by "removing" the associated ".deb" or ".rpm" files in the installs. But you need to be careful not to remove needed items. Remove any language pack that you do not need. Remove any other item that ends up in the extension manager list that you do not need. The "locked" ones can be "removed" by not installing them. Do not install the help pack. Do a full purge of LO and then do the install so there are not any files that are carried over from the previous versions. Delete LO's old config files before the new version.

The real question I have is why do you want or need to limit LO's install size?

Do you have a limited drive space?

I have installed packages on Windows that take up 1 or 2 GIG for the install space, so 400+/- is not bad for an office suite.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
350Mb is about the size of a Cd.

While most such projects try to bundle a few different programs
together onto a Dvd there is something to be said for trimming it down
to fit on Cd.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Herm, I might be mistaken, but a CD usually have a capacity ranging from
650MB​​ to 900MB...
This doesn't change the OP requirement, but I suppose it's more than just
the limitation of a CD here :slight_smile:

#4

Hi, Kracked_P_P:
Thanks for your suggestion, I will try it.

I do have a very limited drive space.
I use a 4GB CF card to install a Debian, and now I have only 500-600MB
leave for install Libreoffice and other use.
So I want reduce the size of Libreoffice as small as possible.

Regards,
Minshein0330

#5

Ask for a refund: it's faulty.

Brian Barker

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
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 :slight_smile:

#7

"minhsien0330":

So I want reduce the size of Libreoffice as small as possible.

You cannot do that without breaking functionality.