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Libreoffice is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for microsoft(r) office.

this metapackage installs all components of libreoffice:
* libreoffice-writer: word processor
* libreoffice-calc: spreadsheet
* libreoffice-impress: presentation
* libreoffice-draw: drawing
* libreoffice-base: database
* libreoffice-math: equation editor
* libreoffice-filter-mobiledev: mobile devices filters
you can extend the functionality of libreoffice by installing these packages:
* hunspell-*/myspell-*: hunspell/myspell dictionaries
for use with libreoffice
* libreoffice-l10n-*: ui interface translation
* libreoffice-help-*: user help
* mythes-*: thesauri for the use with libreoffice
* hyphen-*: hyphenation patterns for libreoffice
* libreoffice-gtk: gtk ui plugin, gnome file picker support,
quickstarter for gnomes notification are
* libreoffice-gnome: gnome vfs, gconf backend
* libreoffice-kde: kde ui plugin and kde file picker support
* menu: will add libreoffice menu entries for every debian window manager.
* unixodbc: odbc database support
* cups-bsd: allows libreoffice to detect your cups printer queues
automatically
* libsane: use your sane-supported scanner with libreoffice
* libxrender1: speed up display by using xrender library
* libgl1: opengl support
* openclipart-libreoffice: open clip art gallery with libreoffice index
files
* iceweasel | firefox | icedove | thunderbird | iceape-browser | mozilla-browser:
mozilla profile with certificates needed for xml security...
* openjdk-6-jre | gcj-jre | java5-runtime:
java runtime environment for use with libreoffice
* pstoedit / imagemagick: helper tools for eps thumbnails
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-*: gstreamer plugins for use with libreoffices
media backend
* libpaper-utils: papersize detection support via paperconf
* libldap-2.4-2: ldap client library; needed for libreoffice getting its
profiles from ldap
* libreoffice-filter-binfilter: legacy filters (e.g. staroffice 5.2)