LibreOffice 5.0.2 and Calibre 2.39.0 packaged

libreoffce_logoThe Document Foundation announced version 5.0.2 of their free Office Suite a few days ago. LibreOffice 5.0.2 is the second update to the “5” major release. Again this is a bugfix release for Linux, no new functionality has been added. According to the Document Foundation “LibreOffice 5.0.2 is targeted to technology enthusiasts, early adopters and power users. For more conservative users, and for enterprise deployments, TDF suggests the “still” version: LibreOffice 4.4.5“.

The new LibreOffice 5.0.2 packages have been compiled for users of Slackware-current only – after all, you are the power users of Slackware. I offer 4.4.5 packages for Slackware 14.1 where a wee bit more conservatism is a good thing. The 4.4.5 packages should also work on -current, but I have not tested that.

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There was a bug report in the comments section of my previous LibreOffice blog post: audio and video files embedded in presentations suffer from delays when opened. This appears to happen in all builds of LibreOffice that use gstreamer-1.x (like my LibreOffice 5 packages) whereas the bug does not appear when LibreOffice has been configured to use gstreamer-0.x (like my LibreOffice 4 packages). The bug has been reported over a year ago, but it does not show a lot of movement.

I decided to stick with gstreamer-1.x, to see if the new release is still affected. Let me know! If the bug still shows, I will compile LO 5.0.3 against gstreamer-0.x again.

For download locations, see below.

calibreicoAlso, I released packages for the latest version of Calibre. I quit following the weekly Calibre update cycle, and at some point noticed that the Calibre developer himself also switched from weekly updates to bi-weeklies.

Calibre 2.x uses Qt5 for its GUI so you’ll have to install a couple of dependencies as well: qt5 of course, and podofo. The remainder of the dependencies (several python libraries) has been built into the package so that they do not have to be installed separately. Available for both Slackware 14.1 and Slackware-current, you can grab the calibre package off  the Slackware server or any other mirror that carries my repository:

Cheers! Eric

10 thoughts on “LibreOffice 5.0.2 and Calibre 2.39.0 packaged




  1. Thank you Eric.

    One Q …

    Once Calibre 2.x is installed, is it OK to allow Calibre to download and install updates ?

    I suppose that would be a root-ish procedure but just wondering …

    Thanks again for all you’ve done !

    — kjh


  2. kjhambrick if you want calibre to download and install updates you’ll find out that without root, not much is going to happen with that download.
    Use Slackware package updates instead, *that* is the proper way to upgrade.


  3. Hi Eric, I’m using Slackware current and I think calibre is not worked. So if you have some time please check the calibre package.
    thank you



  4. This the error messages that I get when start calibre:

    This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “xcb”.

    Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, wayland, xcb.

    Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
    Aborted

    I’m using Slackware64-current without Plasma 5 desktop, but I’m sure already installed qt5 and podofo



  5. Oh yes it’s work now. Because libxkbcommon is in one place with qt5 I don’t pay attention to that. Thank you Eric


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