diff --git a/office/full-pack/README b/office/full-pack/README
index cf984a9b95..cea1b41773 100644
--- a/office/full-pack/README
+++ b/office/full-pack/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-full-pack is a set of dictionaries for kbg/gbgoffice.  It includes a 
-bidirectional English-Bulgarian dictionary, a dictionary of computer 
-terms, a polytechnical dictionary and a dictionary of the Bulgarian 
-North-West dialect.  
+full-pack is a set of dictionaries for kbg/gbgoffice.  It includes a
+bidirectional English-Bulgarian dictionary, a dictionary of computer
+terms, a polytechnical dictionary and a dictionary of the Bulgarian
+North-West dialect.
 
 The dictionary engine is provided by either kbgoffice or gbgoffice,
-so this package depends either from one or the other.
+so this package is only useful if one or both are installed.
diff --git a/office/full-pack/full-pack.SlackBuild b/office/full-pack/full-pack.SlackBuild
index 9086132bb9..b83e1bd121 100644
--- a/office/full-pack/full-pack.SlackBuild
+++ b/office/full-pack/full-pack.SlackBuild
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@
 # Modified by Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> 20101209
 #   * My changes are all good, so flames should still go to Martin...  ;-)
 
+# 20220217 bkw: Modified by SlackBuilds.org: get rid of the Makefile
+# check for an installed copy of gbgoffice or kbgoffice. Allows the
+# package to be built standalone. Having them installed doesn't change
+# the contents of this package one whit, anyway.
+
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=full-pack
@@ -21,9 +26,6 @@ PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
 ARCH=noarch
 
-# If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
-# the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
-# could be useful to other scripts.
 if [ ! -z "${PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME}" ]; then
   echo "$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE"
   exit 0
@@ -46,11 +48,17 @@ cd $PRGNAM
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
  \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
- -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
+ -exec chmod 755 {} \+ -o \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
- -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+ -exec chmod 644 {} \+
 
-make DATA_DIR=$PKG/usr/share/bgoffice install || exit 1
+# 20220217 bkw: get rid of the check for installed gbgoffice or
+# kbgoffice. The data dirs are the same for both (DATA_DIR in the
+# make command), so it doesn't matter which one (or if neither one)
+# is installed, as far as creating this package is concerned.
+sed -i '/^install:/s, .*$,,' Makefile
+
+make DATA_DIR=$PKG/usr/share/bgoffice install
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild