diff --git a/pkgs/applications/office/openoffice/disable-uimpress-test.patch b/pkgs/applications/office/openoffice/disable-uimpress-test.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bdeb3708426..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/office/openoffice/disable-uimpress-test.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-We've to disable this test, because it wants a working fontconfig.
-Otherwise it fails telling fontconfig can't read its config file.
-
-diff --git a/sd/Module_sd.mk b/sd/Module_sd.mk
-index 4fd3a95..10fa388 100644
---- a/sd/Module_sd.mk
-+++ b/sd/Module_sd.mk
-@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ $(eval $(call gb_Module_add_targets,sd,\
- ))
- 
- ifneq ($(OS),DRAGONFLY)
--$(eval $(call gb_Module_add_check_targets,sd,\
--    CppunitTest_sd_uimpress \
--))
-+#$(eval $(call gb_Module_add_check_targets,sd,\
-+#    CppunitTest_sd_uimpress \
-+#))
- # disabled for now, seems to have incomplete deps and hangs on a build from scratch
- #    CppunitTest_sd_filters_test \
- 
-diff --git a/sc/Module_sc.mk b/sc/Module_sc.mk
-index 9c8696b..b36535b 100644
---- a/sc/Module_sc.mk
-+++ b/sc/Module_sc.mk
-@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ $(eval $(call gb_Module_add_targets,sc,\
- ))
- 
- $(eval $(call gb_Module_add_check_targets,sc,\
--    CppunitTest_sc_filters_test \
-+#    CppunitTest_sc_filters_test \
-     CppunitTest_sc_ucalc \
- ))
- 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/office/openoffice/libreoffice.nix b/pkgs/applications/office/openoffice/libreoffice.nix
index 3f15488431b..5d4bd01e6cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/office/openoffice/libreoffice.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/office/openoffice/libreoffice.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0kk1jb4axjvkmg22yhxx4p9522zix6rr5cs0c5rxzlkm63qw6h8w";
   };
 
+  src_help = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/3.5.0/libreoffice-help-3.5.0.3.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0wvlh2r4cy14rs0svr4yb4fidp2g9wbj8vxx2a5swnjf2fdf8qda";
+  };
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/3.5.0/libreoffice-core-3.5.0.3.tar.xz";
     sha256 = "04hvlj6wzbj3zjpfjq975mgdmf902ywyf94nxcv067asg83qfcvr";
@@ -30,12 +35,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   configureScript = "./autogen.sh";
 
-  # patches = [ ./disable-uimpress-test.patch ];
-
   preConfigure = ''
     tar xf $src_translation
-    # I think libreoffice expects by default the translations in ./translations
+    # Libreoffice expects by default the translations in ./translations
     mv libreoffice-translations-3.5.0.3/translations .
+    tar xf $src_help
+    # Libreoffice expects by default the help in ./helpcontent2
+    mv libreoffice-help-3.5.0.3/helpcontent2 .
 
     sed -i 's,/bin/bash,${bash}/bin/bash,' sysui/desktop/share/makefile.mk solenv/bin/localize
     sed -i 's,/usr/bin/env bash,${bash}/bin/bash,' bin/unpack-sources \
@@ -51,6 +57,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   buildPhase = ''
+    # This is required as some cppunittests require fontconfig configured
     export FONTCONFIG_FILE=${fontsConf}
     mkdir src
     for a in $srcs_download; do
@@ -85,40 +92,30 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--without-system-mythes"
 
     # Without this, it wants to download
-    "--with-cairo"
+    "--with-system-cairo"
     "--with-system-libs"
-    "--with-system-python"
+    "--enable-python=system"
     "--with-system-boost"
     "--with-system-db"
 
     # I imagine this helps. Copied from go-oo.
     "--disable-epm"
-    "--disable-fontooo"
     "--disable-mathmldtd"
     "--disable-mozilla"
     "--disable-odk"
-    "--disable-pasf"
     "--disable-dbus"
     "--disable-kde"
     "--disable-kde4"
-    "--disable-mono"
     "--disable-postgresql-sdbc"
     "--with-package-format=native"
     "--with-jdk-home=${jdk}"
     "--with-ant-home=${ant}"
     "--without-afms"
-    "--without-dict"
     "--without-fonts"
     "--without-myspell-dicts"
-    "--without-nas"
     "--without-ppds"
-    "--without-system-agg"
     "--without-system-beanshell"
     "--without-system-hsqldb"
-    "--without-system-xalan"
-    "--without-system-xerces"
-    "--without-system-xml-apis"
-    "--without-system-xt"
     "--without-system-jars"
     "--without-system-hunspell"
     "--without-system-altlinuxhyph"
@@ -130,7 +127,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--without-system-redland"
     "--without-system-libvisio"
     "--without-system-libcmis"
-    "--without-system-nspr"
     "--without-system-nss"
     "--without-system-sampleicc"
     "--without-system-libexttextcat"