libreoffice not working on latest ktown on sw64-current; how to roll back to 4.10.5?
Dear slackers,
I have recently (for the first time) tried out AlienBOB's latest ktown, on 64-bit current. It has been chugging along without incident, until I went to open libreoffice, which didn't open in fact. I searched Alien Pastures and found this comment on http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/libr...chromium-news/: Quote:
...so I guess this is a known issue. My 6 year old daughter has started using Microsoft Word at school and I'd really love to be able to get her just as excited using libreoffice at home on this machine (calligra words is too different-looking...I'm hoping libreoffice is not..). So does anyone know
Ideally I would prefer the first option but this may not be possible at present. I could probably reverse engineer the second option by carefully going through AlienBOB's README for upgrading to ktown, but there is a very good chance I might miss a step or some other package; if someone has worked it out already though that would be cool. Thanks in advance, Michael PS I've got libreoffice-4.3.4-x86_64-1alien installed. |
Probably the easiest way to roll back in with slackpkg. It can put all your upgraded system packages back to stock -current. Just make sure that the kde/alien/ktown builds aren't blacklisted.
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Your issues will be resolved if you just go back to the harfbuzz package that comes with Slackware itself.
Code:
# wget http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/harfbuzz-0.9.16-x86_64-1.txz Eric |
Thanks very much Eric, it is now working. I appreciate your quick response (I understand you are very busy).
As a quick followup, now of course slackpkg wants to upgrade harfbuzz to the ktown version . My slackpkgplus.conf is as follows: Code:
REPOPLUS=( slackpkgplus alienbobcurrent alienbob ktown4 ktown5) Code:
ktown5:.* Code:
ktown5:<regexp indicating everything except harfbuzz> Am I on the right track here and if so do you (or anyone else) know what this regexp should be? Or is there an easier/different solution? Cheers, Michael PS. Blacklisting harfbuzz in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist won't do either since then it will miss the next -current upgrade, right? EDIT I'll mark this as solved and then ask a separate question about slackpkg+. Thanks again, Michael |
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