OpenOffice 3.1.1 sfs

[ttuuxxx]

In Puppy 4.2.1 it works like a charm (unfortunately the icons of all the open office progs pop back on my desktop but that is a minor problem. I like to have only the soffice icon on the desktop).

Ttuuxxx' openoffice.org-l10n-nl_3.1.1.pet however has no effect on the user interface. When I open /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

Then go to tools => options => language settings => languages => language of user interface

I still have only the choice between Default and English (which happens to be the same)

ohhhh its using /opt hmmmmmm that's why, I'm not using OO, so I can't test it, but its looks like its using a different default directory, kind of like how qt in 4 series does. The small pet I made up would have to be opened and move the directories to the right locations.
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

In Puppy 4.2.1 it works like a charm (unfortunately the icons of all the open office progs pop back on my desktop but that is a minor problem. I like to have only the soffice icon on the desktop).

Ttuuxxx' openoffice.org-l10n-nl_3.1.1.pet however has no effect on the user interface. When I open /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

Then go to tools => options => language settings => languages => language of user interface

I still have only the choice between Default and English (which happens to be the same)

Ok I have downloaded open office just to fix this for you, so be happy
anyways the directory and structure and nothing like ubuntu, so I had to move and change the dutch nsl for you, now please uninstall the first pet I made up and install this updated version.
ttuuxxx
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 1.1-v2.pet

[jasmac]

Hello and thankyou for the openoffice sfs, I have it working fine on Lighthouse Pup 4.4.2d frugal install. I was wondering if there is way to stop it from loading the icons on the desktop, as it doesn't draw the icons correctly. It will launch to applications fine just doesn't have the proper icons. I also like to keep a pretty clean desktop with just wbar as my prog launcher. If anyone can help with that it would be appreciated.

Cheers

Jason

[ttuuxxx]

I converted the sfs to a pet made the following changes
- deleted the fonts , then I system linked puppies default fonts
- removed the desktop icons/pinboard
this once again is a temp location, so another mirror would be good.

http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... e3.1.1.pet

ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Hello and thankyou for the openoffice sfs, I have it working fine on Lighthouse Pup 4.4.2d frugal install. I was wondering if there is way to stop it from loading the icons on the desktop, as it doesn't draw the icons correctly. It will launch to applications fine just doesn't have the proper icons. I also like to keep a pretty clean desktop with just wbar as my prog launcher. If anyone can help with that it would be appreciated.

Cheers

Jason

you have to edit the sfs and delete the /root folder
or just use the pet I supplied above that has those icons already removed.
ttuuxxx

[jasmac]

Hey ttuuxxx, thanks heaps for you quick reply, carried out the edit and all working great.

Cheers


Jason

[jakfish]

Now have ye olde version 3 sfs working again

A proven winner I used it for months.

Jake

[Dromeno]

I have just installed ttuuxxx' open office pet plus the new v2 language pet in a brand new puppy 4.2.1

Installation took about 10 minutes (quite normal for such a large pet), no missing dependencies, everything looks normal.

But unfortunately it does not work yet. Something is missing.

when I type swriter in rxvt I get

/root/my-applications/bin/swriter: line 4: /root/my-applications/bin/soffice: No such file or directory

/root/my-applications/bin/swriter: line 4: exec: /root/my-applications/bin/soffice: cannot execute: No such file or directory

[Dromeno]

OK, forget my former post. A ctrl-alt-backspace was all what I needed. Ttuuxxx thanks!

[tlchost]

Forgive the basic question, but the download page says:

how to add spellchecker working:
download en-us dict that contains also spellchecker- download dict
once downloaded, untar file and start OpenOffice

What is the cli command to untar the file?

Thanks

Thom

[Dromeno]

Some other thing: this new Open Office version still does not support the docx format. At many schools in the Netherlands students are required to use it. Is there a plugin somewhere which enables that function?

[Dingo]

What is the cli command to untar the file?

Thanks

Thom

tar -xzf file.tar.gz or tar -xf file.tar

or alternatively you can extract with pupzip

[Dingo]

Some other thing: this new Open Office version still does not support the docx format. At many schools in the Netherlands students are required to use it. Is there a plugin somewhere which enables that function?

I Remember

*Go-OO*
- http://go-oo.org/

an openoffice fork, supports docx; I tried to package for Puppy some times ago, but it seems require MONO that is an huge dependency

[SilverPuppy]

Well, that's sad. The Windoze version DOES support it as of 3.0, so I guess an easy (?) way to get it would be to WINE the doz version if you must have support for the x files. Just give your my-documents folder a drive letter in WINE.

DISCLAIMER: I haven't tried it. The doz version might not even work in WINE, it just sounds worth trying.

BTW, does anyone know WHY the decision was made to not support the x formats in the official *nix versions? It seems a bit backward to me.......

[DaveS]

I have played a bit with 3.1, but there is a bug that screws up a lot of my work: In Base, documents that contain columns with text centred, display with the text justified left. Sticking with the smaller 3.0 for now.

[SilverPuppy]

That's nice, except that the only .PET I have for 3.0 borks the pinboard with its attempt at iconizing. Do you know of a dependable one?

I ONLY use .PET files because when I'm running Puppy, it's usually in a "Full Install" situation. I take computers in the 300mhz range and load Puppy onto them for seniors. If you know a link to a dependable non-desktop-borking 3.0 .PET, I'd love to have it.

On a side note, why are we using that horrid Ziddu or whatever it's called for anything? That site is awful........it must be free.

My longstanding offer is still good, BTW....you want a mirror for any Puppy files, let me know and I'll email you FTP creds. Just don't waste my time setting them up if you're not going to actually use them (like someone here did.....)

[tlchost]

I have played a bit with 3.1, but there is a bug that screws up a lot of my work

I tried it in ChoicePup where I am running Xampp1.7.2 ... as soon as the OO sfs loads in, MySQL stops running.

Thom

[ttuuxxx]

That's nice, except that the only .PET I have for 3.0 borks the pinboard with its attempt at iconizing. Do you know of a dependable one?

I ONLY use .PET files because when I'm running Puppy, it's usually in a "Full Install" situation. I take computers in the 300mhz range and load Puppy onto them for seniors. If you know a link to a dependable non-desktop-borking 3.0 .PET, I'd love to have it.

On a side note, why are we using that horrid Ziddu or whatever it's called for anything? That site is awful........it must be free.

My longstanding offer is still good, BTW....you want a mirror for any Puppy files, let me know and I'll email you FTP creds. Just don't waste my time setting them up if you're not going to actually use them (like someone here did.....)

Did you try this one http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... e3.1.1.pet
I removed all that stuff.
ttuuxxx

ps don't waste our time with FTP creds

[SilverPuppy]

Yessir, and thank you much. That is my new go-to .PET for OOo. I wondered if there was a proper (done like yours) pet for 3.0.1, since there was some concern about bugs in 3.1. If it's not available, no big deal. I've not had trouble personally with 3.1, though I've hardly used it myself. I mostly just load these up and turn them loose.

On a side note, my favorite thing to gripe about......4.1.2 runs fast and everything works properly on computers in the 200-400mhz range. 4.2.1 looks great, (I grudgingly admit) but it runs very slooooooowly on these machines, and has many things that just plain don't work right on any machine I've tried them on (from 350mhz to 1.7ghz). I guess it's a very pretty runt....... I look forward to seeing what 4.3 is like, since it sounds like it hasn't been loaded up with frills like 4.2 has. But let's not discuss that here. I don't know why I brought it up, except that I mentioned the 300mhz boxes.

It really is awesome that I can load a modern, pretty much trouble-free OS on a 12-year-old computer and have it serve a useful purpose for the foreseeable future. It even runs modern software like OOo 3.1. Long live Puppy!

[ttuuxxx]

I would say if your using an older pc use http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... /214X9.iso
plus that openoffice pet package, it will run way faster, less memory etc
ttuuxxx
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