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application Abiword (see Figure 2-6).

Figure 2-6 Abiword screen
You will notice that the text document in Abiword is actually part of this chapter. In fact, it is close
to this part of this chapter, as I am writing it. (I can feel myself falling into a recursive hole. I may
well vanish in a puff of logic.)
Abiword is a perfectly serviceable word processor. If I didn’t love my Mac quite so much, I would
be tempted to write this entire book on my Raspberry Pi.
While we are on the subject of office applications, the spreadsheet stable mate of Abiword is called
Gnumeric. To install it, here is all you need to type:

Once this application is installed, another option will have appeared in your Office menu—this one
for Gnumeric.
To find out about other packages you might want to install, look for recommendations on the
Internet, especially on the Raspberry Pi forum (www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3). You can also browse
the list of packages available for Raspbian Wheezy at http://packages.debian.org/stable/.
Not all of these packages will work, because the Raspberry Pi does not have vast amounts of
memory and storage available to it; however, many will.
If you want to remove a package, use the following command:

This removes both the package and any packages it depends on that are not used by something else
that still needs them. Be sure to keep an eye on the bottom-right corner of your File Manager window;
it will tell you how much free space is available.

Internet Resources
Aside from the business of programming the Raspberry Pi, you now have a functioning computer that
you are probably keen to explore. To help you with this, many useful Internet sites are available where
you can obtain advice and recommendations for getting the most out of your Raspberry Pi.
Table 2-1 lists some of the more useful sites relating to the Raspberry Pi. Your search engine will