TUTORIAL: A Painless Way for Installing LIBREOFFICE !

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Tutorial: How to install LibreOffice

The following install was carried out successfully with LibreOffice 5.4.0 on the most recent version of SliTaz5 rolling core (22.9.2019). Prior to this, attempts to install more recent versions were made but failed (i.e. for LibreOffice 6.3.1 & 6.0.5) – this is the reason I went on to use 5.4.0, which proved to be trouble-free. This failure seems due to a dependency on avahi, which is currently not available on SliTaz: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg53814.html

There is more than one way of installing LibreOffice – the following is merely an account (in six steps) of what worked well for me: no woks, cookbooks or burnt food! It’s written very simply, as it’s aimed at those who feel like a complete newbie to Linux and struggle with command-line.

METHOD

Step 1. First you need to be logged in as root user. In the sakura terminal
type su, then enter password (root is the default password):
‘tux@slitaz:~$ su
Password:
root@slitaz:/home/tux#’

The ‘#’ prompt means you’re logged in as root-user (also known as 'superuser' or 'administrator')

Step 2. Remove any previously installed version of LibreOffice which is not working - this will also remove it from the Menu (Applications) gui:
‘# tazpkg remove LibreOffice’

If you don’t have any previously installed versions, then ignore Step 2

Step 3. Download LibreOffice-5.4.0.tazpkg from
http://slitaz.free.fr/public/LibreOffice-5.4.0.tazpkg
By default it will download to home/tux/Downloads (tux=default name, or use your username here)

Step 4. Now change the directory, using the ‘cd’ command, to the Downloads folder:
‘# cd /home/tux/Downloads’

Step 5. Then after the root prompt, type the following to install LibreOffice
‘# tazpkg install LibreOffice-5.4.0.tazpkg’

Using the GUI, the full LibreOffice suite of applications will now appear listed across Applications/Education, Applications/Office and Applications/Science. You will also now see it listed under My Packages in the SliTaz Panel. However, you wont yet be able to launch them from the Menu – this is the next step.

Step 6. Finally, to launch the LibreOffice applications from the Menu, type the following on separate lines, hitting the return key after each line:
# rm -f /usr/bin/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice5.4.0
# ln -sf /usr/lib/libreoffice5.4.0/program/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice5.4.0

You should be able to open the LibreOffice applications now, following a shutdown & reboot.

Acknowledgement: many thanks to terrybull for indicating a couple of useful weblinks which helped me navigate.

Posted 5 years ago #
HGT

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Did you try
# tazpkg -gi get-LibreOffice
# get-LibreOffice

Posted 5 years ago #
terrybull

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So you got there. Well done and thanks for the acknowledgement.

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@HGT
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, initially I tried '#tazpkg -gi get-LibreOffice'. It defaulted to the most recent version (6.3.1), didn't work, exiting with an Http error. Terrybull had a similar experience when he used this code for getting version 6.0.5. This is why I present a different way of doing this in the tutorial.

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@terrybull
Thanks Terry - well, if it hadn't been for your initial help, I think I would have completely given up !

I have to say there are some really good features with Slitaz & it has a lot of potential. Also, the most recent Slitaz rolling release looks much more polished.

Unfortunately Slitaz seems pretty buggy, to say the least, which is off-putting for anyone trying it. For example, I installed Htop (working well), and then went on to install the browsers Iron-Linux & Firefox, which launch in Slitaz4, but not in Slitaz5 ! I haven't had any luck either in getting the wifi to work. When I tried to set up the wifi, the ethernet stopped working - the only way I could find to get the ethernet back was to reinstall Slitaz !

Sadly, I feel on the backfoot with this distro as I'm not well-skilled in the command-line department - it's not a distro for beginners or the faint-hearted. It's a shame there isn't a Tutorial section to get newbies off to a flying start. However, I'll persevere for as long as time allows ...

Posted 5 years ago #
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HI.
I have just post "Libre Office 6.3.3" for a problem to install LibreOffice.
I apologize I don't have a look a the entire thread of question about libreoffice installation.
Thanks to mikey777; his tuto permits the installation.

Nabuchodonosor / Martin

Posted 4 years ago #
Boa Vida

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To Mikey777, can you assist me in my problem, to place have the OS connect to my wifi? I read your instructions and it seems I can follow your detailed instructions. It's the thread about the Panasonic Tough book cf-29

Posted 4 years ago #
aniguenni

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Hi guys,
why don't give a try to https://www.freeoffice.com/en/ ?
It runs on my system like a charme and is almost 100% compatible to the windows office package an dmany more. And it's for free as well ;-)

Posted 4 years ago #
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Hello mikey777, how are you?

Tutorial or Tutorials for SliTaz is exactly what we need, beginners at SliTaz need step by step, detailed explanations to be able to successfully install the programs. Perhaps even the most experienced may have doubts that they can be sandwiches through tutorials.

Mr. Ceel was kind enough to inform me of the link to his post, without my knowing his step by step I had started another one at the link: http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/installing-libreoffice-on-slitaz-50- weekly-instalacao-do-libreoffice-no-slitaz-50-weekly # post-49266, where I describe the step by step I did, but it was unsuccessful. If you can be so kind as to check which step I took wrong, it will be of great help. I thank you for your tutorial, for providing the complete package for offline installation, because that is exactly what I need, which is to perform offline installations on other computers not connected to the internet.

HGT, how are you?

I found error in get-LibreOffice.tazpkg, I managed to identify that:

"The LibreOffice package is not downloaded and installed, I believe it is due to the script having the download link http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/, at the link http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable /6.3.6/rpm/x86/ has no files to download, there are only files to download at the link: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.3.6/rpm/x86_64/ "

I still haven't been able to verify if the current get-LibreOffice.tazpkg file, after the update on July 18, 2020, has already been corrected or not, because with it I was unable to install it online.

Thankful.
marcelocripe

Original text in Brazilian Portuguese, translated into English by Google translator.

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Olá mikey777, tudo bem com você?

Tutorial ou Tutoriais para SliTaz é exatamente isso que precisamos, iniciantes no SliTaz precisam de passo a passo, explicações detalhadas para poderem realizar com sucesso as instalações dos programas. Talvez até os mais experientes possam ter dúvidas que podem ser sandas por meio de tutoriais.

O sr. Ceel fez a gentileza de me informar o link de sua postagem, sem eu saber do seu passo a passo eu havia iniciado outro no link: http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/installing-libreoffice-on-slitaz-50-weekly-instalacao-do-libreoffice-no-slitaz-50-weekly#post-49266, onde eu descrevo o passo a passo que realizei, mas que foi sem sucesso. Se puder fazer a gentileza de verificar qual foi o passo que eu realizei errado, será de grande ajuda. Eu agradeço por seu tutorial, por fornecer o pacote completo para a instalação offline, pois é justamente isso que eu preciso, que é realizar instalações offline em outros computadores não conectados na internet.

HGT, tudo bem com você?

Eu encontrei erro no get-LibreOffice.tazpkg, eu consegui identificar que:

"O pacote LibreOffice não é baixado e instalado, acredito eu que seja devido ao script possuir o link do download http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/, no link http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.3.6/rpm/x86/ não possui arquivos para download, apenas existem arquivos para download no link: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.3.6/rpm/x86_64/"

Eu ainda não consegui verificar se o arquivo get-LibreOffice.tazpkg atual, após a atualização do dia 18-07-2020 já foi corrigido ou não, pois com ele eu não consegui fazer a instalação online.

Grato.
marcelocripe

Texto original em idioma português do Brasil, traduzido para o inglês por Google tradutor.

Posted 4 years ago #
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/usr/bin/get-LibreOffice has now default version 6.2.8.2, because that is the newest version with a 32-bit-flavour.
# tazpkg -gi get-LibreOffice # get-LibreOffice
should work properly.

# get-LibreOffice --version=latest
will fail!

When an existing version older than 6.2.8.2 is required, it can be installed with

# get-LibreOffice --version=old_version_number
The updated package is immediately available from
http://cook.slitaz.org/cooker.cgi?download=get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg

Posted 4 years ago #
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HGT,

Thank you for responding.

Unfortunately I only managed to test today (25-07-2020), here are the test results:

tux @ slitaz: ~ / Downloads $ sudo tazpkg -gi get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg
Password:
Not found: get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg in the mirror package list.
Not found: get-get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg in the mirror package list.
Unable to find "get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg" in the extra list of
packages.
tux @ slitaz: ~ / Downloads $ sudo tazpkg install get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg
Password:

The "get-LibreOffice" package is already installed.
You can use the --forced option to force the installation.

tux @ slitaz: ~ / Downloads $ sudo get-LibreOffice
Password:

Package LibreOffice will be build as SliTaz package and installed
================================================== ==============================
Options in use:
root: /
version: latest
lang: automatic
install package: yes
keep tazpkg: no
source directory: / tmp / src-LibreOffice
build directory: / tmp / get-LibreOffice
logging file: /tmp/get-LibreOffice.log

================================================== ==============================

LibreOffice is already installed.
Would you like to remove and reinstall this package [y / N]? y
Removing installed version ... Remove LibreOffice (5.4.0)? (y / N) y

Removing: LibreOffice
================================================== ==============================
Removing all installed files ... Restoring Busybox applet ar ... Restoring Busybox applet findfs ... Updating system database ... Removing receipt files ... Fetching the archives ... Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org (89.238.68.185:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP / 1.1 404 Not Found
Fetching the archives ... Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org (89.238.68.185:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP / 1.1 404 Not Found
Fetching the archives ... Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org (89.238.68.185:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP / 1.1 404 Not Found
Could not get LibreOffice_6.3.6_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz. Exiting.

Note that when "error: HTTP / 1.1 404 Not Found" occurs, it is when the page was not found.

Please access the LibreOffice website at http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/ and http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable /6.3.6/rpm/x86/, note that the correct link that should be in the code would be http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.3.6/rpm/x86_64/, unfortunately I don't know how to make the necessary changes to the code.

I don't master SliTaz, I'm starting in the Linux world, but I have experience in HTML and CSS, I ask you to observe the code, accessing / usr / bin, right-click on get-LibreOffice, click on Leafpad, the code searches the site http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/ with the suffix Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz, if we put everything together it would be http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz, accessing this page does not start the download , but results in "he page you requested could not be found. For a list of all mirrors please go to this page: https://download.documentfoundation.org/mirmon/allmirrors.html"

Thankful.
marcelocripe

Original text in Brazilian Portuguese, translated into English by Google translator.

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HGT,

Agradeço por responder.

Infelizmente eu só consegui testar hoje (25-07-2020), seguem os resultados dos testes:

tux@slitaz:~/Downloads$ sudo tazpkg -gi get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg
Password:
Não encontrado: get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg na lista de pacotes do mirror.
Não encontrado: get-get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg na lista de pacotes do mirror.
Incapaz de encontrar "get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg" na lista extra de
pacotes.
tux@slitaz:~/Downloads$ sudo tazpkg install get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg
Password:

O pacote "get-LibreOffice" já está instalado.
Você pode usar a opção --forced para forçar a instalação.

tux@slitaz:~/Downloads$ sudo get-LibreOffice
Password:

Package LibreOffice will be build as SliTaz package and installed
================================================================================
Options in use:
root : /
version : latest
lang : automatic
install package : yes
keep tazpkg : no
source directory: /tmp/src-LibreOffice
build directory : /tmp/get-LibreOffice
logging file: /tmp/get-LibreOffice.log

================================================================================

LibreOffice is already installed.
Would you like to remove and reinstall this package [y/N]? y
Removing installed version... Remover LibreOffice (5.4.0)? (y/N) y

Removendo: LibreOffice
================================================================================
Removendo todos os arquivos instalados... Restoring Busybox applet ar... Restoring Busybox applet findfs... Atualizando banco de dados do sistema... Removendo arquivos receipt... Fetching the archives... Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org (89.238.68.185:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Fetching the archives... Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org (89.238.68.185:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Fetching the archives... Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org (89.238.68.185:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Could not get LibreOffice_6.3.6_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz. Exiting.

Observe que quando ocorre o "error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found" é quando a página não foi encontrada.

Por favor acesse o site do LibreOffice nos links http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/ e http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable /6.3.6/rpm/x86/, observe que o link correto que deveria estar no código seria http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.3.6/rpm/x86_64/, infelizmente eu não sei fazer as alterações necessárias no código.

Eu não domino o SliTaz, estou iniciando no mundo Linux, mas possuo experiência em HTML e CSS, peço que observe o código, acessando /usr/bin, botão direito do mouse sobre get-LibreOffice, clicar em Leafpad, o código busca no site http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/ com o sufixo Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz, se juntarmos tudo seria http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz, acessando esta página não começa o download, mas resulta em "he page you requested could not be found. For a list of all mirrors please go to this page: https://download.documentfoundation.org/mirmon/allmirrors.html"

Grato.
marcelocripe

Texto original em idioma português do Brasil, traduzido para o inglês por Google tradutor.

Posted 4 years ago #
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get-LibreOffice-1.31 is not yet copied to the packages repository.
By now it can be fetched from
http://cook.slitaz.org/index.cgi?download=get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg
only.

Posted 4 years ago #
marcelocripe

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HGT,

That's what I did, I downloaded and tried to install get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg, the result I described above.

I opened the get-LibreOffice that was installed, the download links for the ".rpm" files are wrong.

I ask you to look at the code and compare it with the LibreOffice website.

marcelocripe

Original text in Brazilian Portuguese, translated into English by Google translator.

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HGT,

Foi o que fiz, eu baixei e tentei instalar o get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg, o resultado eu o descrevi acima.

Eu abri o get-LibreOffice que foi instalado, os links de download dos arquivos ".rpm" estão errados.

Peço que olhe o código e compare com o site do LibreOffice.

marcelocripe

Texto original em idioma português do Brasil, traduzido para o inglês por Google tradutor.

Posted 4 years ago #
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@ marcelocripe

$ sudo tazpkg -gi get-LibreOffice will load the package from the mirror that is not still updated.
Download the latest version of get-LibreOffice-1.31 from the cooker clicking on the link in HGT's post and then
$ sudo tazpkg install get-LibreOffice-1.31.tazpkg

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@marcelocripe
Many thanks for your kind post: please excuse the one-week delay in getting back to you, but I hardly ever come here these days. I just drop by sometimes to see if Slitaz has got fixed as there were many issues..

It is with much regret that I had to stop using Slitaz, as there were too many seemingly unresolvable problems with it and not enough people available to help with basic questions. I finally left Slitaz and am now with antiX: it's the only useable distro that will work well on a single-core CPU (1.66GHz) Samsung netbook, like Slitaz used to be.

I really wish I could help the Slitaz community to resurrect the distro, but unfortunately I don't have the advanced coding skills required.

Kind regards
Mikey777

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