apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

wallarug over 12 years ago

How can I get a powerpoint viewer on linux Raspbian?

the command "sudo apt-get install pptviewer" does not seem to work and nor does openoffice.org.

Can someone please help me.

Former Member over 12 years ago

openoffice should open powerpoint, but sometimes has problems with font sizes etc. What version of openoffice, and is it a ppt or a pptx file ?

try LibreOffice ?
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wallarug over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Openoffice does not work/ has not been ported to Raspbian. Other options please
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to wallarug

Sorry, no other options that I'm aware of.

If you were using linux on an x86 pc you'd have options of either Wine or Crossover office and using the native windows viewer.

I haven't looked closely at Raspbian, but if there's a PDF viewer and your powerpoint doesn't use too too many fancy features then perhaps converting it to PDF would work ?

Or try google docs ?
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wallarug over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Google Doc does not work for my purpose.

I need a ppt viewer becasue I have linked stuff to the file and it will be constantly changing.
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wallarug over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

libreoffice and openoffice.org seem to have been ported now.

I am currently installing openoffice.org and will report back later (after the 330mb of stuff is installed)
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wallarug over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

apt-get install openoffice.org
That worked for me and the powerpoint progam (although very slow) works great.

Also, are LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org the same thing? I think the command above installed all the LibreOffice packages.
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to wallarug

LibreOffice is a fork of Openoffice. There are many reasons for the fork, but it's mainly due to the difficulty of getting new code into OpenOffice - Sun used it as the base for the commercial StarOffice - and as the whole thing is now owned by Oracle there were many more concerns over the future of OpenOffice.

Regardless, LibreOffice currently seems to be progressing more rapidly and appears to have more developer support. So it would seem to have more likelyhood of keeping up with changes in the microsoft file formats.

I will say that in my experience the support for pptx files isn't perfect. Various things don't work the same as in the real powerpoint application, fonts can be wrong etc. Where I work, they have this habit of embedding Outlook emails in powerpoint presentations and that really just doesn't work right in LibreOffice on linux as far as I can tell.
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