(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

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

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.

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.

To clarify about the non-printing problem I have with 3.4: This is in the same perfectly stable version of QNop12 that I always use.

Lo3.4 will not even start to print from, e. g. Writer. Other apps, like Gimp, print as usual to my Laserjet 2100 and PhotoSmart 4480. I now have both 3.4 and 3.3 installed. 3.3 prints. 3.4 does not but seems to work otherwise.

I noticed Tronkel's posts to a forum here:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Li ... 26425.html He starts:

"Has anyone had a printing problem with 3.4.0?
3.2.2 was fine in this regard.
3.4.0 shows a correctly installed CUPS printer but refuses to actually print the job.
What has changed between the two versions?"

Henry wrote:To clarify about the non-printing problem I have with 3.4: This is in the same perfectly stable version of QNop12 that I always use.

Lo3.4 will not even start to print from, e. g. Writer. Other apps, like Gimp, print as usual to my Laserjet 2100 and PhotoSmart 4480. I now have both 3.4 and 3.3 installed. 3.3 prints. 3.4 does not but seems to work otherwise.

I noticed Tronkel's posts to a forum here:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Li ... 26425.html He starts:

"Has anyone had a printing problem with 3.4.0?
3.2.2 was fine in this regard.
3.4.0 shows a correctly installed CUPS printer but refuses to actually print the job.
What has changed between the two versions?"

Space in the url.. it's a known forum issue

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

01micko wrote:

Henry wrote:To clarify about the non-printing problem I have with 3.4: This is in the same perfectly stable version of QNop12 that I always use.

Lo3.4 will not even start to print from, e. g. Writer. Other apps, like Gimp, print as usual to my Laserjet 2100 and PhotoSmart 4480. I now have both 3.4 and 3.3 installed. 3.3 prints. 3.4 does not but seems to work otherwise.

I noticed Tronkel's posts to a forum here:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Li ... 26425.html He starts:

"Has anyone had a printing problem with 3.4.0?
3.2.2 was fine in this regard.
3.4.0 shows a correctly installed CUPS printer but refuses to actually print the job.
What has changed between the two versions?"

Space in the url.. it's a known forum issue

Thanks, it's a known issue with me now!

As far as printing is concerned - OK, I'm happy with Lo3.4 now for my purposes. I can't print out an .odt but I can save it as a .pdf and print it from the .pdf reader.

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

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

DC wrote: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

Support for 64bit Pups is now added

See main post

So far the main code has survived since LibreOffice-3.4.0 was released, now up to 3.4.3. This will likely change when they get to 3.5x, as some stuff is hard coded to 3.4. Let me know as soon as this app fails and I'll fix it, or if you are adventurous fix it yourself and post fix here.

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

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

DC wrote: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

There is a patch for this here.

Thanks rcrsn51,
I'd forgot already about that patch

And thanks 01micko,

Everything working fine now with fatdog 520 (frugal)

DC

works perfectly in french
puppy 528 frugal hdd

thank's a lot

Hi 01micko,

Just tried with wary513 frugal.
excellent and fast enough on my 1.5GHz box.

Just 1 comment:
I know that JRE is required
I had none at installing
LO could not exit always the message: Install JRE....
OK and endless loop.

No problem for me, but maybe a check on existing JRE at beginning could be helpful for others

Thank you
L

L18L wrote:Hi 01micko,

Just tried with wary513 frugal.
excellent and fast enough on my 1.5GHz box.

Just 1 comment:
I know that JRE is required
I had none at installing
LO could not exit always the message: Install JRE....
OK and endless loop.

No problem for me, but maybe a check on existing JRE at beginning could be helpful for others

Thank you
L

I did test in Wary awhile back, can't recall any issues. In Slacko I get the java warning 5 times and dismiss it then start LO again and it's ok. Maybe just a warning that Java is "desired" and if LO fails then is "required", what do you think? I guess LO devs know about this and I'm a bit surprised that with the split from Oracle that they don't eliminate Java dependency.

Cheers

01micko wrote:

L18L wrote:Hi 01micko,

Just tried with wary513 frugal.
excellent and fast enough on my 1.5GHz box.

Just 1 comment:
I know that JRE is required
I had none at installing
LO could not exit always the message: Install JRE....
OK and endless loop.

No problem for me, but maybe a check on existing JRE at beginning could be helpful for others

Thank you
L

I did test in Wary awhile back, can't recall any issues. In Slacko I get the java warning 5 times and dismiss it then start LO again and it's ok. Maybe just a warning that Java is "desired" and if LO fails then is "required", what do you think? I guess LO devs know about this and I'm a bit surprised that with the split from Oracle that they don't eliminate Java dependency.

Cheers

Java is apparantly needed only for the Impress and Database functions. All other features appear to work well without Java.

Encountered odd behavior with this program today. I am running 5.25 retro and 5.28 on a desktop. I am also running 5.28 on a netbook. I tried this program without success in each os on each computer. It will only download the help file. It will not download the english language pack or the main program. I ran the program several times throughout the day thinking that it might be a temporary issue on their server but no success even after coming back to it several hours later.

roadkill13 wrote:I ran the program several times throughout the day thinking that it might be a temporary issue on their server but no success even after coming back to it several hours later.

Working ok for me as I type.. . It certainly is possible that it is(was) a server issue, I have encountered it on numerous occasions. Maybe try another day?

I'd also be interested to know what feedback the program gave you, any error messages? There is error control in place but it could be improved upon.