On 7th of April, the Document Foundation released Libreoffice 5.1.2: “LibreOffice 5.1.2 is targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters and power users. For more conservative users, and for enterprise deployments, TDF suggests the “still” version: LibreOffice 5.0.5“. Ah yes… my promise to build LO 5.0.5 packages for Slackware 14.1 has still not been fulfilled. Sorry folks, will see what I can do about that. But there is still some stuff which is ranking higher on my TODO list.
LibreOffice 5.1.2 is a minor update, focusing on bug fixes.
Packages can be obtained from these mirror sites and probably others too:
- http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ (US master site)
- http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/ (my own new fast mirror)
- http://alien.slackbook.org/slackbuilds/ (US)
- http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/people/alien/slackbuilds/ (FR mirror)
- http://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/ (UK – fast mirror!)
Cheers! Eric
LibreOffice Calc fails to start. It complains about a missing library. (libsclo.so)
Mats did you install this LibreOffice package on Slackware 14.1 per chance?
I just checked on 64bit Slackware-current and localc starts fine here.
Try this command to see what libraries you are missing:
ldd /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libsclo.so
If you are on 32bit Slackware, omit the “64” from “lib64”.
Found it, I had upgraded boost to 1.60.0 libsclo.so was dependent on boost 1.59.0
hi..
Apr 7 2024 — just tried the libreoffice install last night.. on slackware 15 64 bit
will not start.. i get the same error another got:
line 187 “… oosplash: cannot execute binary file: exec format error
line 187 “… oosplash: success
uname -m
x86_64
There are much more recent blogposts about LibreOffice than this one from 8 years ago. Also, these more recent pages not only mention the same error but also show the solution.