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LibreOffice-6.2.2
was released Thursday morning, https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...breoffice-622/ |
On my test machine one of my applications became unusable in a KDE5 environment when using the LibreOffice 6.2.x series. That bug has been fixed in 6.2.3 so I'm waiting until then.
btw the bug revealed itself in a base application when displaying a growing progress bar. The whole screen turned white with a noticeable flicker. Not pleasant when repeating many times a second for several minutes. One had to have faith and believe that the application hadn't crashed. The bug also revealed itself in one or more of the LibreOffice wizards. The bug was only seen in KDE5 environments. Everybody's mileage will be different, just depends how heavily you use LibreOffice. My production machines are 14.2 using KDE4 where the application behaved without error using the LibreOffice 6.2.x series. |
LibreOffice-6.2.3
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gawk-5.0.0 and LibreOffice-6.2.2
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Just a quick note here: I am on slackware64 current with ALL latest update. I had to rebuild LibreOffice-6.2.2 from slackbuild source: (https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds...ce/LibreOffice) after boost upgrade to 1.70.0, the build failed with gawk error about namespace ... I downgraded gawk to previous version (gawk-4.2.1-x86_64-3) and was able to build LibreOffice successfully. "gawk*" went into my slackpkg blacklist file. Wael |
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"The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 6.2.4"
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And Eric has released it for -current. I tried to build it yesterday using his script after changing the version number but that effort went south citing missing files in the /tmp area. I've installed 6.2.4 from Eric and it runs fine.
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Good news! Many thanks! AlienBob's LibreOffice packages can be found here, https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sl...s/libreoffice/ |
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I installed the 6.2.5 packages this morning (running -current64 and Plasma5). Started LO to change the default icon scheme as Eric recommends but after about five seconds LO crashes. Running from the command line I get -
XXXX@missi:~$ libreoffice X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8 Major opcode: 42 (X_SetInputFocus) Resource id: 0x6000197 X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8 Major opcode: 42 (X_SetInputFocus) Resource id: 0x6000197 xxxx@missi:~$ Anyone have any ideas on the cause or is anyone else seeing this?? |
Thought to go to .config and delete everything under libreoffice. Did that and it runs long enough to change the default icon setting to default and then after I click apply and finally OK it crashes with the same error as above.
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Went back and reinstalled 6.2.4 and everything runs fine. Does anyone alse have problems with 6.2.5 on -current64/Plasma5 ?
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The issues manifests as transparent menus and menu bar (which grabs something from video memory) and the menu items become blue on hoover, and stays this way. Tested on Intel HD2000 built in a Intel Pentim G870 on socket 1155, AMD motherboard with Radeon HD4250, discrete video card Radeon R5 240 and Radeon R3 built in Athlon 5350 on socket AM1 With all respect, but looks like Mr. Hameleers tested this build exclusively with the proprietary drivers from NVIDIA, because it is hard to believe that he does not noticed those obnoxious issues which manifests on Mesa usage, no matter which video card you use. |
Working fine here, so far.
I did Eric's recommended "tweak" a while back, when the problem first manifested itself. Since then the tweak seems to have carried over fine - I update via slackpkg+. I'm using Intel graphics on my main desktop and laptop, and AMD (open source drivers) on my secondary desktop. -- Pete |
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Current, x86_64, and Eric's Plasma5.
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In QEMU I only test in XFCE, and on my laptop I only test on Plasma5. I do not test on KDE4. |
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) |
I'm running Nvidia GTX-970 and their 430.26 proprietary (blob) driver. So looks like it's probably Nvidia related. After I saw that a couple of "x" packages were updated in today's updates I rebuilt nvidia-kernel package.
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https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/libreoffice-6-2-5-packages-available/#comments- Switched icon theme from Breeze to Elementary while still on 6.2.4 - KDE Integration not installed - A few dictionaries and l10n language support files installed - AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7 TKS |
I am able to confirm that removing the package "libreoffice-kde-integration" fixed my issues within Plasma5, at least.
Not yet able to test this removal under KDE4, because this particular computer is in another location, so I can/will test that on evening. EDIT: also under KDE4 this package removal fixes the issues. |
Thank you LuckyCyborg. I re-upgraded to 6.2.5 sans the integration package and that fixed my problem as well. Thanks too to Eric for the info and building 6.2.5. It looks great.
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"The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.3"
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.3.2:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...nces-lo-6-3-2/ |
LibreOffice 6.3.4 available for download
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...eoffice-6-3-4/ |
Eric has released LibreOffice 6.3.4 packages for -current today:
https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/lib...kware-current/ https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...e/pkg/current/ https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...pkg64/current/ |
Many thanks, Eric! Installed 6.3.4 on my work stations yesterday. :)
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LibreOffice 6.4.0 is available:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...breoffice-6-4/ Edit 2020-02-01 Eric has uploaded 6.4.0 packages for -current now: https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...e/pkg/current/ https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...pkg64/current/ |
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I'm facing a problem with libreoffice from alien repo.
I've just completed a successful upgrade to latest current, and running soffice I get a problem: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.56: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The installed version is libreoffice-6.2.8-x86_64-1alien and thus the error is expected, as the upgrade lift the icu4c version to icu4c-65.1-x86_64-1. Thus I've tried the ( masked ) libreoffice-6.4.0-x86_64-1alien but this time the error is: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_locale.so.1.72.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This time I'm confused as the libbost from current is boost-1.71.0-x86_64-2 The only 1.72 I can find is from alien repo boost-compat-1.72-x86_64-2alien but in my understanding is the compat. Installing this last fix the problem, but my question is: why there is the need for a lib version greater then the one in -current. Is a problem with my configuration or I'm simply missing something ? T.I.A. Pigi |
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That's my thought too, but the libreoffice 6.4.0 seems to be compiled with a version greater than the current ( which is in compat too ).
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Thanks Eric !
That was my fear. I suspect it's a problem with my mirror list: Code:
topolinux root /var/cache# slackpkg search boosthttp://ba.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Sla...are64-current/ but it's Changelog is: Code:
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ChangeLog.txt 2020-02-03 20:47Sorry for the trouble :) Pigi |
Yeah I had issues as well with that same mirror not updating, switched to a german one some time ago.
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LibreOffice 6.3.5 is available:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...eoffice-6-3-5/ LibreOffice 6.3 is now considered the still version suitable for business deployment. |
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I installed LibreOffice on Slackware 14.2 32-bit & 64-bit on two different computers. I used slackbuilds.org this required downloading openjdk (or JDK if you want to use Oracle). Also, there are a bunch of dependencies but they are well documented on slackbuilds.org it can take a bit of time to compile from source code, but it works well.
The other option is ~alienbob which can make the job faster and easier. But, both are excellent ways to install it. |
LO 6.4.2.2 from alienbob works fine on 64-current.
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I use Libreoffice a lot. Writer, Calc, Base as a front end to Mariadb, Mailmerge and with Macros holding them all together. Over the years I've had an active interest in the resolution of over 20 Libreoffice bugs. Occasionally I've had to fall up to a year behind the Libreoffice release plan because of various Libreoffice regressions. We are all testers.
On Slackware 14.2 with multilib I use the Libreoffice 6.2.8 SlackBuild maintained by Christoph Willing. I use this for day to day work. This 6.2.8 release is the last for 14.2 as Libreoffice 6.2 series has reached End of Life. The 6.3 series on-wards won't compile on Slackware 14.2. On Slackware Current with ktown and multilib I use Libreoffice 6.4.1 SlackBuild maintained by Christoph Willing. See ponce.org. I use these newer Libreoffice releases to determine whether any regressions have crept in to Libreoffice. This will put me in a good place when Slackware 15.0 hits the road. I will then start using the most recent stable release of Libreoffice, assuming regression free, for day to day work. At the moment both suit my purposes and appear to work well. |
LibreOffice 6.4.3 is out:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...eoffice-6-4-3/ Edit: AlienBOB's LibreOffice packages has been updated to 6.4.3 for -current https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...e/pkg/current/ https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...pkg64/current/ |
LibreOffice 6.4.4 is out:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...breoffice-644/ AlienBOB's LibreOffice packages have been updated to 6.4.4 for -current: https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...e/pkg/current/ https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...pkg64/current/ |
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LibreOffice 6.4.5
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Before I do all that I've got to work out what's ailing my wifi network. btw SweetHome3D doesn't appear to work with JDK11 LO 6.4.5.2 seems to be OK, compiled on my machine, as does NetBeans and mariadb-java-client-2.4.0 As I said earlier early days. Alex |
Looking at the recent JDK documentation it seems to suggest that JRE is no longer shipped with JDK11(LTS). Further digging suggests that the latest JRE is Version 8 Update 251.
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I've made a rudimentary SlackBuild to package jre-8u251-linux-x64.tar.gz obtained from https://www.oracle.com/java/technolo...downloads.html This package is required in addition to JDK11 obtained from SlackBuilds.org
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