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AgBr Apprentice
Joined: 06 Nov 2010 Posts: 195
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:25 pm Post subject: libreoffice 4.0.2 |
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Does anyone know what keeps libreoffice 4.0.2 from becoming stable on gentoo? I'd much like to keep it in sync with our installation on windows boxes. |
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Yamakuzure Advocate
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2285 Location: Adendorf, Germany
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:18 am Post subject: |
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No idea how it works on your machine, but on mine I can no longer open xlsx (and some docx) files with libreoffice-4.x.
It uses liborcus-0.3 to open them, but 0.3 is rather old. Installing liborcus-9999 doesn't help either, because libreoffice compilation then fails.
As our CEO loves his MS-Office XLSX files, and plainly refuses to save as XLS, I had to downgrade again. _________________ Important German:- "Aha" - German reaction to pretend that you are really interested while giving no f*ck.
- "Tja" - German reaction to the apocalypse, nuclear war, an alien invasion or no bread in the house.
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salahx Guru
Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 530
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:58 am Post subject: |
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I know there is (was?) a problem with libreoffice and ffmpeg, libreoffice (indirectly, via gstreamer) requires libav rather than ffmpeg.
A quick check shows libreoffice has 4 dependencies that are still unstable: 2 of them are related to Boost, 1 liborcus and, 1 libmspub. Stabilizing Boost is not something to be taken lightly, you can track the progress in bug 425448, and other libreoffice dependencies in bug 458198.
Libreoffice is a very taxing (perhaps pathologically so) program to build - even compared to things like glibc, gcc, Firefox and all of the QT libraries , so hopefuly they'll be a -bin too. |
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AgBr Apprentice
Joined: 06 Nov 2010 Posts: 195
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:17 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for sharing your insight. So I will have to practice patience. |
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Mangoon n00b
Joined: 26 Apr 2013 Posts: 1
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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 2:53 pm Post subject: Try FreeOffice |
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Had several issues with LibreOffice, too, and now use SoftMaker FreeOffice since a few weeks - I like it a lot! Compatibility to Microsoft Office formats is much better than with LibreOffice, it takes just 57MB disk space, it's pretty fast, it's free, definitely worth a try:
freeoffice.com |
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kernelOfTruth Watchman
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 6111 Location: Vienna, Austria; Germany; hello world :)
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 2:42 pm Post subject: Re: Try FreeOffice |
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Mangoon wrote: | Had several issues with LibreOffice, too, and now use SoftMaker FreeOffice since a few weeks - I like it a lot! Compatibility to Microsoft Office formats is much better than with LibreOffice, it takes just 57MB disk space, it's pretty fast, it's free, definitely worth a try:
freeoffice.com |
good news !
weren't in the past only older versions available for free ?
gotta try it out (I still have a 2008 version around when having to open up powerpoint, etc. files instantly & for compatibility purposes) _________________ https://github.com/kernelOfTruth/ZFS-for-SystemRescueCD/tree/ZFS-for-SysRescCD-4.9.0
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