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Another Libre Office issue

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• Started 6 years ago by terrybull
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   terrybull
   

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   I have recently installed Slitaz 4. I have installed Libre Office from the get-libre office in package manager and it is installed but nothing shows in the menu. I can lauch it from usr/bin office.so
   I know there has been this issue raised before here:
   http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/libreoffice-53-very-imperfect-installation#post-44607
   but I do not understand. Can someone spell out in very basic terms how I can get the office application into the menu please.
   Thanks

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   wb-slitaz
   

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   I use slitaz-rolling-core
   and used these commands in terminal as root after installation of get-LibreOffice:

   rm -f /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-*

   cd /usr/share/applications

   ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/base.desktop libreoffice-base.desktop
   ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/impress.desktop libreoffice-impress.desktop
   ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/writer.desktop libreoffice-writer.desktop
   ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/calc.desktop libreoffice-calc.desktop
   ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/math.desktop libreoffice-math.desktop
   ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/draw.desktop libreoffice-draw.desktop
   ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/printeradmin.desktop libreoffice-printeradmin.desktop

   chmod +x /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/*.desktop

   cd /usr/bin

   rm -f /usr/bin/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice5.3
   ln -sf /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/program/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice5.3

   Good luck

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   terrybull
   

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   Thanks for the reply but it has not resolved the issue. No menu entries. I pasted every line into root terminal. When I paste this

   ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/base.desktop libreoffice-base.desktop

   and the other similar entries I get a text 'file already exists'
   I can still launch LibreOffice from user/lib.
   Where do I go now.

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   wb-slitaz
   

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   after that command:
   rm -f /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-*
   be shure that all files with the beginning with libreoffice- are deleted in /usr/share/applications

   or delete first only libreoffice-writer.desktop manually
   and try then
   ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/share/xdg/writer.desktop libreoffice-writer.desktop

   Then writer should appear in the menue

   when the menue is complete then again

   rm -f /usr/bin/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice5.3
   ln -sf /usr/lib/libreoffice5.3/program/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice5.3

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   terrybull
   

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   No joy. Done the above and still no menu. I just tried it with writer and nothing showing in the menu. I have /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/swriter
   for example and when I go to this in file manager it opens writer

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   terrybull
   

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   Just a bump on this. I really would like to get libre office working properly. Surely this cant be too hard for those who know what they're doing. I dont.
   Thanks

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   kultex
   

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   Switch to 5.0 and i think your Problems are gone.......

   4.0 is to old

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   terrybull
   

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   I'm having to do a network boot as this machine only has a floppy. When I try to boot 5 it just hangs after a while. I don't have the knowledge to troubleshoot this. I'd be happy with 4 if I could just get LibreOffice working. I have installed LO 3. From a tazpkg I used on slitaz 3 and that's gone on fine and created menu entries fine. However a newer version would be good if only I could get the menu entries or desktop shortcuts.

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   rerivero
   

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   Hi terrybull
   I run 4.0 with LibreOffice 5.3 and it works prefect.

   Steps
   1) check the PATH launcher files. Open Sakura:
   cd /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg
   ls

   base.desktop
   calc.desktop
   draw.desktop
   impress.desktop
   math.desktop
   qstart.desktop
   startcenter.desktop
   writer.desktop
   xsltfilter.desktop

   2) as root
   # cd /usr/share/applications
   # ls -la libreoffice-*

   

   3) Solve symbolic link. First delete link
   # rm libreoffice-writer.desktop

   Create new symbolic link
   # ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/writer.desktop libreoffice-writer.desktop

   Check your menu!

   

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   Posted 6 years ago #
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    terrybull
    

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    Thanks rerivero. I'll have another go over the weekend.

    Posted 6 years ago #
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    terrybull
    

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    I sat down this morning to go through the replies and try and solve my LibreOffice issue when I saw this post from rerivero
    http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/get-libreoffice-patched
    So I ran it and it automatically removed the previous installation and reinstalled LibreOffice, correctly creating the menu enteries so thanks rerivero I now have it installed. Will this make it to the repository so get libre office works in the future?

    Posted 6 years ago #

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