IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of free productivity tools for creating and sharing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. It is based on the Open Document Format (ODF) standard. With IBM Lotus Symphony, you not only can import, edit and save a variety of file formats including M$ Office files, but also can export your documents to PDF.
Installation
- Download installation package of IBM Lotus Symphony for Linux.
- Run the following commands in terminal:
chmod +x IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin
./IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux.bin
cd IBM_Lotus_Symphony_Linux/
./setup.bin
- Welcome.
- Accept license agreement.
- Choose installation directory.
- Ready to install.
- Installing.
- Finish.
Run
To start IBM Lotus Symphony Documents, click Applications → Office → Lotus Symphony Documents menu item.
To start IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations, click Applications → Office → Lotus Symphony Presentations menu item.
IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations
To start IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, click Applications → Office → Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets menu item.
IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets
You can also launch IBM Lotus Symphony from the command line. For example:
/opt/ibm/lotus/Symphony/framework/shared/eclipse/plugins/
com.ibm.productivity.tools.standalone.addin_3.0.0.20070913-1045/
apps/Lotus\ Symphony\ Documents
2 responses so far ↓
1 Artem Nosulchik // Sep 20, 2007 at 12:39 am
Seems to be that IBM Lotus Symphony becomes more popular. As for me, it seems more attractive than OOO. Thanks for howto!
2 Ruoshui // Nov 27, 2007 at 3:14 am
Good instruction!
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