Last time, I built .deb packages of OpenOffice.org for Ubuntu Gutsy with backport patch, i18n38, that fixes critical bug regarding ICU. Now it's time to redo it again to the latest source.

1. Get the latest source.

   apt-get source openoffice.org
   

2. Then update version number using dch and add 2 patches. Obtain the patches from the previous source.

3. Edit debian/rules to disable system ICU.

   USE_SYSTEM_ICU=n
   

4. Make sure you have 10+ GB of free space and then run debuild. It took me about 13 hours.

Hope you have some fun. In case you want to read more, check out at http://sugree.com/node/3.

Tags: ubuntu, openoffice.org