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OxOOL v5 community edition compiling on Ubuntu 24.04 HOWTO

  1. First thing first, install a Ubuntu 24.04 server! Can it be run on Ubuntu 24.04 desktop? Yes, but why bother? :-)

  2. Upgrade the system:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
  1. Make sure you install OpenSSH and Vim (I'm a Vim guy! All right, but remember to install your favorite editor, okay?) and a couple of tools:
sudo apt install vim openssh-server net-tools curl git -y
  1. Import OSSII public key
sudo curl -o /etc/apt/keyrings/OSSII.asc http://www.oxoffice.com.tw/deb/OSSII.key
  1. Set up OxOOL repository
sudo curl -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oxool-community-v5-noble.list http://www.oxoffice.com.tw/deb/oxool-community-v5-noble.list
  1. Install software packages necessary for compiling OxOOL (use option apt install -y if you don't like to be asked everytime)
sudo apt update
sudo apt install oxoffice* libpoco-dev libgumbo-dev
sudo apt install -y build-essential libsqlite3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libcppunit-dev libcap-dev libcap2-bin libgit2-dev libtool libpng-dev automake m4 wget autoconf pkg-config openssl libgumbo-dev ccache fontconfig libfontconfig1-dev libpam-dev
sudo apt install -y devscripts debhelper dh-exec
sudo apt install -y libpcre16-3 libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 libpcrecpp0v5
sudo apt install -y hunspell
sudo apt install -y python3-polib python3-lxml
  1. Install and setup Node.js
cd ~
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo -E bash nodesource_setup.sh
sudo apt install -y nodejs
  1. Clone OxOOL-community code from GitHub and switch to branch v5
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/OSSII/oxool-community.git
cd oxool-community
git switch v5
  1. For debug and developing, run autogen.sh directly WITHOUT running configure
cd oxool-community
./autogen.sh

It will enable debug options so that you can test and debug by running make run.

  1. For installing, you can build deb packages with following command. The built deb packages will be one level up the compiling directory:
./autogen.sh
debuild -b -uc -us
cd ..
ls oxool_5.x.x-x.v5_amd64.deb

The generated deb files can be then installed in the system.

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