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
3 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!
3 tony // Aug 1, 2008 at 4:32 am
Thanks for this. I had just installed Symphony, and couldn’t find the launcher for the life of me. I’m not using KDE or Gnome (using fluxbox), so I had no automatically generated menu link. With this info, I was able to find it, then wrote a script and stuck it in /usr/local/bin to launch the program quickly, like this:
!/bin/bash
cd /usr/share/ibm/lotus/Symphony/framework/shared/eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.productivity.tools.standalone.addin_3.0.1.20080602-1703/apps
./symphony
(I had to rename IBM Lotus Symphony to “symphony”, since the script wouldn’t launch it with spaces in the name). I named the script “symp”, so, now all I have to do is open fbrun with my keybinding (alt+c), or open a terminal, and type “symp” to launch Symphony’s main window.
I’m not sure how much I will use Symphony, since OOo has pretty well all the same functionality that I need, and I prefer FOSS, but, I confess, it does look nice. I just figured I’d give it a try.
be well, tony
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