Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[01micko]

Hi rhadon, wuwei, Henry

I just booted into Wary 512 and am testing out libreoffice3.4 I built from the script in spup and it seems sane to me.

Rolf, trying to run the DOTdesktop files doesn't work.

The exec line in most of them should read:

Exec=libreoffice3.4 --draw (or --writer or --base or whatever)

You can run that command in a terminal

libreoffice3.4 --draw and draw should start, working for me in Wary.

This is the big change from previous versions where they were using the Openoffice method of calling the scripts in the program directory

Some thing like:

/opt/libreoffice3.4/program/sdraw

I wouldn't be surprised if those scripts disappear in future versions.

So just check the .desktop files and make sure they have that exec line. The only mod the script does to that line is remove the %U argument that was in the original. (apart from adjusting the icon path to fit with puppy's menu system).

By the way.. there should be a file in /usr/bin called libreoffice3.4 which is a symlink to /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/soffice.

HTH

[wuwei]

Fortunately Libre Office 3.4 is not the only available Office Suite.
None of these problems were present in LO3.3 or in Open Office 3.3.

To reiterate:

LO3.4 runs fine, prints and is entirely without any unusual behaviour in these Puppies:
525
spup
432

It does not even start in
ICE012

It does start but won't accept Java and won't print in
Wary 512

All of these are the exact same /mnt/home "installation" with starters dragged to the respective desktop.

Thank you Micko for the hint with the content of the .desktop files. Those are present after an SFS has been installed. I might try this route some time later, but for the time being this is just a caveat against LO3.4. With several alternatives available, there is not exactly a pressing need to get this small problem resolved.

[01micko]

Thanks for clarification wuwei.

I just installed Java update 24 (tho it's actually up to 26) to Wary and it's ok.. however with all the problems surfacing I think maybe the libre guys made the "stable" call too early.
I am of the opinion that the app is still a bit immature, still finding it's feet after a major fork from OpenOffice. As you say, alternatives are there.

[Henry]

[01micko]

[Jim1911]

Hi 01micko,

Your "GUI to download LibreOffice" program worked perfectly in your latest spup to prepare and install stable version 3.4. It is working great, printing is also fine, I haven't observed the problems with this one as reported previously.

Thanks for keeping this up-to-date, I know that you are shooting at a moving target since they keep updating it. Incidentally, the unstable versions listed as available don't appear to be the latest.

Above also posted on spup thread.

Cheers,
Jim

[Henry]

[DC]

Hi 01micko,

Thanks for the pet it makes keeping up with the LO releases very easy.

One little request

Would it be easy / hard to make a version for Fatdog 520? (i.e. x86-64)


DC

[01micko]

Hi DC

Actually, I did intend to support FD and LHP 64.. there is commented code already in the script. I think the paths were different or something and it required extra coding. I'll look at that for the next version.

Cheers

[01micko]

[DC]

Hi 01micko,

Just tried with fatdog frugal 520

got this error message

fatal:Required squashfs version 3, but 'LibreOffice-3.4.3_64_en-
GB.sfs' seems squashfs version 4

not sure where the problem is as I'm also getting this message with other SFS's

DC

[01micko]

DC

Thanks for testing

I actually tested in FD-520-rc1 as I didn't have time to download FD-520-final and it loaded fine with sfs_load in the fly. It worked too with limited testing.

It seems the sfs must have built ok?

If it's happening with other sfs designed for FD then you may have to take it up with kirk, there is probably a very simple fix.

Cheers

[rcrsn51]

[DC]

Thanks rcrsn51,
I'd forgot already about that patch

And thanks 01micko,

Everything working fine now with fatdog 520 (frugal)

DC

[Delph]

works perfectly in french
puppy 528 frugal hdd

thank's a lot