LibreOffice in Slackware.

enine · 09-02-2021, 08:09 PM

well, that's interesting. I was building from SBo rather that using Alien's because I was running an a Raspberry Pi. 7.1 built fine there and I recently bought a new x86_64 desktop and just used the same Slackbuild since I already had it there and 7.1 built fine.
So I downloaded 7.2 from ponce and it failed. Just for grins I went back into the 7.1 slackbuild and tried and it failed.

something odd there

chrisretusn · 09-03-2021, 07:00 AM

Code:

Version: 7.2.0.4 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 20(Build:4)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.14; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: en-PH (en_PH.UTF-8); UI: en-US
SlackBuild for 7.2.0 by Eric Hameleers
Calc: threaded

I use LibreOffice every day. Mostly Calc (with some large and complex spreadsheets) and Writer, I see nothing different on startup time or CPU usage.

hish2021 · 09-03-2021, 09:02 AM

What do users of Calc in version 7.2 feel about the "new" autoinput? There's a discussion here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/....cgi?id=142214.

chrisretusn · 09-03-2021, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by hish2021

What do users of Calc in version 7.2 feel about the "new" autoinput? There's a discussion here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/....cgi?id=142214.

I'm not seeing this. It works as it always has. I get suggestions from only the column I am working with.

EDIT: Never mind, I am see this. Arggggg!

lecramyajiv · 09-03-2021, 10:17 AM

Hi guys,

Libreoffice 7.2.0.4 Appimage works in slackware current 64 bit, but it doesn't come with Libreoffice base. I don't use libreoffice base so no problems there.

chrisretusn · 09-04-2021, 05:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hish2021

What do users of Calc in version 7.2 feel about the "new" autoinput? There's a discussion here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/....cgi?id=142214.

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisretusn

I'm not seeing this. It works as it always has. I get suggestions from only the column I am working with.

Guess I didn't fully grasp the issue. Today while adding data to a column I discovered it's NOT working as it was and to put it lightly sucks! Makes entering data a pain in the butt. In this particular column the cell above is blank, cells above that blanks cell are filled, also there are cells several rows below that are filled with common entries. Since the cell above and cell below was empty nothing was suggest when I started to type. Alt-Down does not bring up a list of items like it used to either. This is a royal pain the rear. Just added my own comment to that "enhancement" "Improve Calc's auto-complete feature"; which in my opinion breaks it.

hish2021 · 09-04-2021, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by chrisretusn

Guess I didn't fully grasp the issue. ...

I first thought I'd done something wrong but it's "one person's" idea of improving LibO! A TDF member said something to that effect here: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice...eb2x&context=3.

Anyway, my quick-n-dirty workaround is to fill all empty cells in affected columns with a single space.

chrisretusn · 09-04-2021, 06:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hish2021

I first thought I'd done something wrong but it's "one person's" idea of improving LibO! A TDF member said something to that effect here: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice...eb2x&context=3.

Anyway, my quick-n-dirty workaround is to fill all empty cells in affected columns with a single space.

Yeah, one guy who thinks it should work like "other popular alternatives" READ Microsoft Excel. Why? I have a lot of empty cells, to many to go back and add spaces to them, that and that make them no longer empty.

I'm one of those who think Calc is much better than Excel.

hish2021 · 09-04-2021, 08:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisretusn

I have a lot of empty cells, to many to go back and add spaces to them, that and that make them no longer empty. ...

I agree that it's a pain to do it individually, but
- one can enter a range in the Name Box to select the desired range of cells
and then
- use search and replace to do the job.

I agree that having cells no longer empty can be an issue when filtering for non-empty cells but that too can be worked around.

All the same, I hope they revert to the previous functionality.

hish2021 · 09-04-2021, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lecramyajiv

Hi guys,

Libreoffice 7.2.0.4 Appimage works in slackware current 64 bit, but it doesn't come with Libreoffice base. I don't use libreoffice base so no problems there.

The 7.2.0.4 AppImage does come with Base but lacks Java which is to be provided by your OS:

Quote:

LibreOffice AppImages will run on the distributions that will run an installed version of LibreOffice, but expect the user’s system to have some libraries that aren’t bundled with the AppImage, like Java (used in Base) and GStreamer (used in Impress).

Source: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/appimage/

enine · 09-05-2021, 01:25 AM

What is the old saying about those who forget history repeat it so something like that? It appears the LibreOffice build may have a repeating issue, I found https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...297/page2.html and while some said to uninstall first then unset the variables I found all that was needed was unset the two variables to get a successful build

Code:

UNO_PATH=/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program
URE_BOOTSTRAP=vnd.sun.star.pathname:/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/fundamentalrc
JAVA=no ./LibreOffice.Slackbuild

cwizardone · 09-10-2021, 06:09 PM

LibreOffice 7.1.6

Quote:

The Document Foundation announced today the release and general availability of LibreOffice 7.1.6 as the sixth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 7.1 open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite series.

Coming almost two months after LibreOffice 7.1.5, the LibreOffice 7.1.6 update is here to fix more bugs across all core components of the open-source software suite used by millions of users worldwide on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms. A total of 44 bugs were squashed, according to the changelogs from RC1 and RC2.

LibreOffice 7.2 is already here as the next major release of the popular and free office suite, but you are probably still using the LibreOffice 7.1 series on your GNU/Linux distribution, so I suggest you keep an eye on the stable software......

The full story can be found here, https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-7-...s-download-now

The official announcement, https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...1-6-community/

chrisretusn · 09-13-2021, 08:19 AM

This new 7.2 "improvement" to Calc's "auto complete" has really changed the behavior of data entry in columns of cells, for years I've been used to the LibreOffice way, then someone suggest that LibreOffice should behave like MS Excel does.

I do a lot of data entry using Calc, I found a patch the "reverts" this behavior back to the default way from
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/....cgi?id=142214

I have successfully rebuilt libreoffice 7.2 with the patch using Alien Bob's build and I do see some of the old behavior back; however it not completely back.

Does anyone have the old package libreoffice-7.1.4-x86_64-1alien.txz that I could access to I can install it and verify my findings. Does Eric keep an archive of old packages?

My attempts at building 7.1.4 from Alien Bob's build set is not finishing.

allend · 09-13-2021, 08:48 AM

libreoffice-7.1.4-x86_64-1alien.txz You have got seven days.

chrisretusn · 09-14-2021, 01:41 AM

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Originally Posted by allend

You have got seven days.

Thank you very much, downloaded and installed. I have confirmed my suspicions that this fix to revert back the old behavior in Calc is not complete. I use Calc everyday I know how it worked before, just wanted to make sure I was not imagining things. it did work as I expected. This new behavior is terrible. Again thanks.

Side note: I was a bit concerned as I realized on download this that I also have installed libreoffice-dict-en-7.2.0-x86_64-1alien and libreoffice-kde-integration-7.2.0-x86_64-1alien. Not to worry though, working okay.

Now to work on my bug report.

Second side note: I have backups of all my packages except the 12 packages I get from Alien Bob's repository via slackpkg w/slackpkg+. Guess I need to change that.