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Distribution: Slackware 64 -current multilib from AlienBob's LiveSlak MATE
Posts: 1,090
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Originally Posted by cwizardone
LibreOffice-7.4.0 Community has been released.
Thanks for the heads-up. Apparently containing quite a few improvements for handling MSOffice files, remains to be seen how far this goes. I took the easy way out, built a package from the .rpm files. So far, so good.
libreoffice: updated to 7.4.0 for Slackware 15.0 and -current.
Re-added Java support, backed by my new openjdk11 package.
On -current, please also install boost-compat and icu4c-compat to get back
the older libraries that are part of Slackware 15.0 but not -current.
I'm unable to compile 7.4 version from Alien BOB tree on Slackware 15 x64 current. I receive error:
Code:
configure: error: Ant not found - Make sure it's in the path or use --with-ant-home
Error running configure at ./autogen.sh line 322.
sed: can't read Makefile: No such file or directory
libreoffice.SlackBuild FAILED at line 1446
I do
Code:
lftp -c 'mirror http://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/build/'
cd build
sh libreoffice.SlackBuild
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,170
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Originally Posted by cwizardone
03-28-22.
Removed all traces of libreoffice (using removepkg) including the user configuration file, rebooted and re-installed. Still the spell checker does not work.
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. At this point it isn't worth any more effort.
Thanks, again.
FWIW: On a hunch I updated the hunspell package and that solved the problem.
Last edited by cwizardone; 08-20-2022 at 01:18 PM.
Distribution: Slackware 64 -current multilib from AlienBob's LiveSlak MATE
Posts: 1,090
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Originally Posted by gildbg
Of curse not, the whole idea of Eric to building the libreoffice is to be able to build the package without modifying the system packages.
You'll have to search his blog, but he does state in posts from last year that apache-ant is a dependency for compiling OpenJDK. Not sure, but I guess that re-adding JDK support to his package makes apache-ant a (build-only) dependency.
Quite a few of Eric's packages have dependencies not found in the official slackware repo.
That actually is not necessary to be installed. I don't know why Eric use this approach. I will send him an email letter of the day to asked him, it's seems something else missing.
I build successful the libreoffice. It's seems Ant is required only for building so I do:
4. I create the empty file slack-required with touch because the file is required from build script but is not present.
5. Write: sh libreoffice.SlackBuild
After one hour the project was build successful.
Last edited by gildbg; 08-21-2022 at 09:02 AM.
Reason: added name of build script
Maybe I misinterpret the instructions for the new improved method. It seems we should take a binary package (the same tarball whose content is rearranged to create the apache-ant package that was meant to be pre-installed to build LO) and, rather than installing it in the usual way (effectively unpacking it at /), it is unpacked somewhere else (/tmp) and the SlackBuild is modified to point to the new location.
I'm struggling to see much advantage in this new method. I guess, since apache-ant is not officially installed, there's the potential saving of ~42M of disk space if later removal of the version unpacked in /tmp is remembered (not mentioned in the method description however). Just as easily, the officially installed apache-ant package could also be uninstalled after building LO, resulting in exactly the same saving.
I have a strange problem with LibreOffice. I have both libreoffice and libreoffice-helppack from SBo.
Quote:
$ ls /var/log/packages/ | grep libreoffice
libreoffice-7.4.0-x86_64-1_SBo
libreoffice-helppack_en_US-7.4.0-x86_64-1_SBo
When I click the Help menu item it opens a file in my Geany program editor. In kde application preferences for HTML, Firefox is preferred, with Geany second (now removed with no change). I don's see anything relevant in user preferences. I tried safe-mode with factory defaults with no difference. The file is called "/tmp/lunnnnnxjob.tmp/NewHelp0.html
I have found a solution to my strange problem with LibreOffice. In Firefox settings, I clicked the "Make Firefox your default browser" button. Apparently that changed something. I had also removed the SBo libreoffice and libreoffice-helppack packages and installed the ones from AlienBob at http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac...ce/pkg64/15.0/ which place the program at /usr/lib64/libreoffice/ and also include the help files. However, that alone did not fix the problem. Since I have had my Slackware for so long and have done so many adjustments, I have no idea of what actually happened. Now, I hope Firefox is happy being designated the "default browser" and I don't have a bunch of new mysteries arise.
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