Continued from the thread entitled: "Installing LibreOffice: please can we have tutorial that works for total Linux newbies..."
@terrybull
Many thanks for your reply terry. After much hair-pulling, I abandoned Slitaz5, and replaced it with a Slitaz4 install: perhaps it's a bit easier (more stable) than the rolling version 5 ...
Then I downloaded LibreOffice-5.4.0.tazpkg and placed it at /home/tux/Desktop/ and installed the package from there using:
'tazpkg install LibreOffice-5.4.0.tazpkg'
Using the GUI, I checked 'Office' under 'Applications' and the full LibreOffice suite is now listed there - good :-)
However, when I click on any of the LibreOffice applications, they do not open - they just flash up momentarily on the screen.
In the TazPanel, I checked to see if LibreOffice is now listed in 'Office' under 'My Packages'. However, it appears to be absent.
I thought maybe that the 'menu launcher' was missing so I attempted to install this in terminal as shown by Alex K in the second link you gave me, using:
'tux@slitaz:~$ su
Password:
root@slitaz:/home/tux# rm -f /usr/bin/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice5.4.0
root@slitaz:/home/tux# ln -sf /usr/lib/libreoffice5.4.0/program/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice5.4.0
root@slitaz:/home/tux#'
... however this didn't work :-(
I checked the TazPanel again (as above), and LibreOffice 1.2 now appears installed in 'Office' under 'My Packages' , though the LibreOffice applications still don't open when I click on them under Menu.
So what do I need to do to make them open fully?
Am I missing some dependencies?
I couldn't find an 'extras' package for LibreOffice version 5.4.0 - does one exist?
Many thanks in advance to terrybull or any others for any further help with this
