Error with building libreoffice 4.0.2.2 (in a virtual machine)

Question

I tried to build libreoffice 4.0.2.2 on Ubuntu 13.04 x86-64 using VirtualBox. An error has occurred which says: no suitable windowing system found, exiting .

Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

The official wiki says:

sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice # only on Debian/Ubuntu
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core libreoffice
cd libreoffice
./autogen.sh
make dev-install

You can get the compiled version here. Just choose x86_64 or x86 and deb.
Unpack the file:

• Click on your downloaded package (or right click and do a "Open With" and choose your unpacking tool).
• Extract the folder to a location you have easy access to (your Home directory is fine)

Installation of the packages

• Change into the unpacked folder, in it you will see some files and a DEBS/ folder.
• Change into this folder
• Select ALL files within this folder (except the "desktop integration" folder).
• Do a right-click and in the drop-down menu select something like "Open with Ubuntu Software center"

• You may be prompted to install dependencies, generally the system will tell you if these dependencies will break something.

• Change into the desktop integration folder. This contains a LibreOffice*debian-menus_*.deb file

• Again right-click and open with Ubuntu Software Center to install.