The simples solution I know for privacy office on the Pinephone: Abiword, Gnumeric & transferring your files to a PC & back over the external SD card of the PP

Last Updated on June 14, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

  • If you want an office solution on your Pinephone.
  • And if you want to transfer office files cloud-free from your Pinephone to your PC and back.
  • This is the easiest way I know to solve this problem.
  • This is a solution Google Inc. has killed on Adnroid phones after Android version 4.4. and that is to write to the external SD card.
  • Here is explained how to use the externral SD card of the Pinephone for file transfer to a PC.
  • The explanation is from a Linux beginner.
  • Further which Pinephone distro to choose which supports the Pinephone keyboard.
  • How alter the Pinephone keyboard layout for instance for your language, or to adapt it for Gnumeric and Abiword.
  • Issues i had with file transfer over the external Pinephone SD card to my Ubuntu PC and back.
  • I was not yet successful with this solution and I do not use it yet.
  • But it is suitable to be processed further.
  • Abiword and Gnumeric work satisfyingly on the Pinephone.
  • There are also versions for desktop PCs available for these applications.
  • You can use the same file format on the Pinephone as on your PC.
  • How to transfer files over the external SD card of the Pinephone with your PC is described here:
  • I failed up to this date with the external SD card solution with my Pinephone,but I was not far from being successful.
  • I had issues with the writing permission with my Ubuntu PC to write to the Pinephone SD card I have sticked into my Ubuntu PC.
  • But I have to admit that I am a Linux beginner.
  • For a professional this should be easy.
  • Most of it is aleady described how to solve it in the Pine64 forum by professionals.
  • But this is not easy to digest for me as a Linux beginner.
  • Adapting the Pinephone keyboard layout for Abiword and Gnumeric would aslo be helpful:
  • And to adapt it to your specific country
  • This would make the Pinephone more usable for office mobile.

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