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apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

wallarug

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.

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  • 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.