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LibreOffice: unable to open applications in Menu on Slitaz4

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

terrybull

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Registered: 2011-11-06

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Re: LibreOffice: unable to open applications in Menu on Slitaz4

I found Slitaz 4 more problematic for me than either 3 or 5 and really don’t get on with it. I still use Slitaz 3 on a very old Pentium 2 machine and Slitaz 5 rolling on a Pentium 3 800 mhz machine.  I have found 5 to be an excellent balance between small size and functionality.

So on Slitaz 5 form the link I supplied I downloaded

http://cook.slitaz.org/next/get/LibreOffice-6.0.5-i486.tazpkg

and there is an extras tazpkg too. Worked fine for me. No issues at all. The only problem with 5 rolling is the updates occasionally break my system. But trying to fix is is how you learn and if the worse comes the install is so quick you can reinstall in no time at all and start again.

I have found this to be a first class forum and requests for advise and help are promptly answered.

I’m sorry but I cannot help with your current problem. I only answered your initial issue as I had the exact same trouble

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Re: LibreOffice: unable to open applications in Menu on Slitaz4

Thanks terrybull.

For some reason, I can't quite fathom, all the LibreOffice apps are now working from the Applications GUI (Menu). They can be opened :-)

I'm still on Slitaz4. I note what you say about versions 4 & 5 and will still keep the partition with Slitaz5 installed on it - I might go back to itr a bit later.

Thanks again - I seem to be okay for now, just about ...