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Hi,
I used the script get-LibreOffice and it run smooth. At the end installing was killed by a ,,no space on the device" error message. No I see that the rootfs is only about 1 GB.
Any idea what to do then?
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Michael Bischof
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Yes. Your rootfs is only 1GB. I'm assuming you split your partitions into one for SliTaz's root system and one for your home directory. I will further assume that you only left 1GB to SliTaz's root system. This means SliTaz is already taking up 160MB as a base install. Actually, let tell you how much my root system takes up. Without my home folder (which is 2.6GB at the moment), SliTaz with everything I need installed (slitaz-toolchain, abiword, gnumeric, deadbeef, pidgin, geany, Game Emulators, VLC, sakura, xchat, firefox, flash and most of XFCE) takes about 1.4GB. You want to download something that's huge (nearly 300MB) that needs to be copied (taking up another 300MB while copying) and that needs the the big requirement of Java which takes up another 100MB or so uncompressed. Yep, you need about 700MB of free root system space to get LibreOffice to install.
Simplest answer? Increase the space you've given to your root system partition or just go with something else like Abiword and Gnumeric.
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Hmm.. Maybe I'll revive my libreoffice project and try to package it natively for slitaz..
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Yes, that would be a nice idea.
Another thing: the rootfs of a Slitaz 3.0 boot is 900 MB, 100 MB are used, only 800 MB are left. How could one enlarge it?
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Michael Bischof
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In the meantime I tried to install LibreOffice to an installation of Slitaz on a harddrive where there was enough space. It did not work. The tarball was downloaded correctly. But then the transformation to a tazpkg-package did not work and the result was that the message stated that LibreOffice is installed, but the folder in /usr/lib was quite empty. There was a soft link to ,,soffice" in /usr/bin but that did not work.
One idea to those who can manage that:
- separatedly download the tarball
- place it in /home/tux
- prepare a script to install it from there to the userspace, may be /home/tux/bin and correct the $PATH then- like it can be done with firefox or kompozer (what works fine).
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Michael Bischof
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try it with this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portable/files/LibreOffice%203.3/download
but no idea, if it works, because I use softmaker office
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Thank you, kultex!
Aha, probono is still active. Nice to see that! For certain standard applications there should be the idea of being platform-independant in Linux as well. This office software is something like this.
By the way: why do you prefer softmaker office?
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kultex,
I tried it in 2 ways:
- on a harddrive installation of slitaz 3.0, about 1 year old, not carefully supervised. It run out of the box (java was installed there). The funny thing: I cannot see how it works, where on the system it is established.
- on a live-CD-type of boot: with BzImage root=/dev/sdb6 rw home=/dev/sdb6
As root I had to make it executable, of course. It complained that there is no java, I klicked away the complaint but after 4-5 times it worked. No idea yet how it is done!
(That yesterday my trial to install it on the above mentioned harddrive install might be connected to a rpm2cpio-problem: the download was ok, when the tazpkg-package was done the mistake occured)
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why softmaker office - because it is much quicker, 20% smaller and more compatible with MS Office - and the price is ok - there are often free older versions on CDs of magazines, which are upgradeable - so the price is just about 30 € for 3 pcs - so 10€ for one installation.
And it installs nicely in /home/tux so it does not touch my frugal installation - so I have a very quick Os with just 1,2 GB of Ram
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Thanks,
sounds reasonable. But for my purposes in school I cannot recommend it as it costs money. So I come back to my original intention: certain everyday software should be platform-independant like this LibreOffice-Variation of probono so it can run with ease on each linux distribution. In my place 2 from 100 would have the necessary nerd-qualifications to overcome this problem. And in case a common browser like Firefox, a common office software like LibreOffice or Adobe Reader does not run out-of-the-box they simply drop linux. Such a thing we do not want, do we?
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just as a hint - softmaker Office 19,95€ for all computers at the school compound - http://www.softmaker.com/english/education_en.htm
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