The upgraded boost package in slackware-current last week had broken LibreOffice’s “localc” program. Which is typical because I compile LibreOffice with a “–without-system-boost” flag. Apparently a dependency on the system’s boost libraries gets added nevertheless. Patches to cure this behaviour are very welcome!
Thus it became necessary to compile new packages for slackware-current. Co-incidentally there was also a new LibreOffice release last week: a minor upgrade to the 5.2 series, check out the announcement on the Document Foundation blog . And note their designation of this release: “LibreOffice 5.2.1, targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters and power users, provides a number of fixes over the major release announced in August. For all other users and enterprise deployments, TDF suggests LibreOffice 5.1.5 “.
Due to time constraints (this package takes a day to compile in my VM), I only created packages of this LibreOffice 5.2.1 release for Slackware -current. The 5.1.5 packages that I also have were created for Slackware 14.1 but will also work on Slackware 14.2 should you be in need of a stable version. I am not decided yet on new packages for Slackware 14.2, so you may have to stick to 5.2.0 there for the moment.
Get the packages here:
- http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ (US master site)
- http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/ (my own 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!)
PS: the LibreOffice browser plugin (NPAPI based) has been removed in LibreOffice 4.4.0: https://skyfromme.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/killing-the-npapi-plugin/
Have fun! Eric
Update 19-Sep-2016: I have added libreoffice-5.2.1 packages for Slackware 14.2 to my repository.
Thanks Eric! I hadn’t noticed yet since I don’t use libreoffice real often at home.
Thanks Eric !
I’ll try to update my liveslak current AND do an upgradepkg to LO 5.2.1 Current this week.
I will report any issues under the appropriate Blog Topic.
Thanks again.
— kjh
THank you Eric! I upgraded and LO works without any issue so far.
Eric: looks like KDE integration is not working. Somehow I get the GTK version even when I have the KDE Integration installed and while using Plasma.
Eduardo, that might be caused by the profile script which the package installs since 5.2.0:
Open /etc/profile.d/libreoffice.sh and change the value for “SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN” (or comment that whole variable definition out with a ‘#’).
Eric: will do that. Thanks for the pointer!
Hopefully soon all will be well with you.
Eric: thank you: it worked like a charm!
Hi.
I probably missed something but I have a weird error: Impress and Writer work juts fine, but Calc won’t start arguing that libsclo.so is missing (it’s not of course).
Am I the only one with this problem?
My Bad sorry! I blacklisted “boost” from my upgradepkg (to keep LO 5.2.0 working 🙂 ) last week and forgot it.
So for airhead like me: don’t forget to update your current packages (especially boost) before upgrading to LO 5.2.1.
I updated the main article with a reference to the libreoffice-5.2.1 packages for Slackware 14.2 which I have made available in my repository today.
Thank you Eric !
I downloaded LO 5.2.1 for Slackware64 14.2 and I ran `upgradepkg libreoffice-5.2.1-x86_64-1alien libreoffice-dict-en-5.2.1-x86_64-1alien libreoffice-kde-integration-5.2.1-x86_64-1alien libreoffice-sdkdoc-5.2.1-noarch-1alien`
When I run `/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice –calc “$@”` from a Konsole session, there is absolutely no unexpected output ( 🙂 a good thing 🙂 ).
I am able to open existing and create new and save changed spreadsheets ( which is about the extent of my usage )
All is well.
Thanks again Eric !
— kjh