Release Candidate Four of LibreOffice 3.3.0

January 22, 2011 / alienbob / 19 Comments

It looks like Oracle is trying to rush their OpenOffice 3.3.0 ahead of the LibreOffice fork. Yesterday I thought there was actually going to be a stable release but no, it was only their tenth release candidate. Do we really care?

Anyway, there is a fourth release candidate available now of LibreOffice. Obviously I built some cool packages for Slackware. An official LibreOffice 3.3.0 is not far off, and what we already have in this Release Candidate looks really good.

I want to stress again: my packages have been compiled from source, as opposed to repackaging the official RPM files. My packages are native Slackware stuff. Language packs for a lot of non-english locales are available – anyone miss their own language here?

Get a dictionary for your language at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/dictionaries . I would like to have feedback about including dictionaries for some of the major languages in the build.

My Slackware LibreOffice package and language packs – and associated build scripts – can be downloaded from the usual locations (it may take a little while for the UK mirror to be updated):

There is an rsync access as well:

rsync://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/

I am running LibreOffice on Slackware 13.1 as well as -current without issues. Read my older blog posts for my experiences with LibreOffice, and tips on compiling it from source.

Have fun, Eric

Software

OOo openoffice rc Slackware

18 Comments

natex
January 22, 2011 at 16:47

Thank You for providing these packages. You are a huge asset to the slackware community.

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Andrew
January 22, 2011 at 20:20

Thank You for this packages. And yes I miss my own language here (Ukrainian). I use RPM package for localization.

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alienbob (Post author)
January 22, 2011 at 21:08

Hi Andrew

I have updated the “languages” file and the next release of my LibreOffice package will contain a Ukrainian localization.
Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers, Eric

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Alex
January 22, 2011 at 21:37

Hi Eric,

as requested, here’s my feedback regarding inclusion of language packs.
I think, German is one of the most important languages for LibreOffice, not only because it is my language, but because LibO and OOo enjoy particularly high acceptance in German speaking countries. Which is not surprising, if you just recall, originally were derived from StarOffice, developed in Hamburg (Germany). This resulted in good support for our language since version one, which was just one reason, why the package became so popular, that Sun got interested and acquired the whole company developing the software.

Best regards

gargamel

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zbreaker
January 22, 2011 at 22:18

Many thanks for this work Eric. As usual you continue to spoil those who slack!

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alienbob (Post author)
January 22, 2011 at 23:21

Hi gargamel

What’s in libreoffice-l10n-de-3.3.0.4-x86_64-1alien.txz if it is not german?

Eric

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mlangdn
January 23, 2011 at 15:07

After the upgrade, I clicked on Calc, and it didn’t even try to start. So I tried Writer, and it started just fine. Closed Writer, then I tried Calc again, and it came up with no problem. I guess Writer has to be started first for some reason.

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alienbob (Post author)
January 23, 2011 at 15:34

Hi mlangdn

I have noticed this with past releases, that sometimes the very first LibreOffice app (any app) will not start, but after that any LO app will start just fine. If you start the application on a terminal commandline you’ll probably see the reason: invalid cache contents which will then be deleted.

Eric

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Alex
January 23, 2011 at 20:05

There was obviously a msunderstanding caused by my post being incomplete. Of course, support for German language is available for LibO and your packages include it. I just wanted to confirm that this is much appreciated!
Thanks!

gargamel

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tim
January 24, 2011 at 11:01

great. english british is appreciated as the sbo version is US by default. on another note, any chance of your VLC builds being updated, especially the “full” version. thanks

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michelino
January 24, 2011 at 20:05

Thanks for all this stuff!!!
….about you feedback request: I’ll really appreciate the Italian dictionary in the relevant language pack.
Thanks, thanks and thanks again!

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alienbob (Post author)
January 24, 2011 at 21:46

@tim,

I am preparing vlc-1.1.6 package uploads as I type. Should be available in the repository in an hour.
The british language module is included in the next version of my LibreOffice build if all goes well.

Eric

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alienbob (Post author)
January 25, 2011 at 23:38

@dolphin77,

I deleted your last post because it was just too large (containing the complete and unabridged release announcement of LibreOffice 3.3.0)…

Yes, I know that the 3.3.0 release is official now. What you may have overlooked is that the final release is byte-identical to the RC4…. they have just renamed the binary package to 3.3.0 and did not even bother to create new source tarballs – leaving them at 3.3.0.4 (which makes my SlackBuild script again a bit uglier).

I could have just renamed all my packages too, but since I wanted to add several new languages packs I am currently rebuilding libreoffice-3.3.0 from scratch.

Eric

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abul-jauzaa
January 26, 2011 at 02:23

hi eric !

libre office has release the final version (3.3.0).
please make the slackware package for us.
thx

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tim
January 26, 2011 at 13:02

thanks for the updated vlc packages 🙂

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alienbob (Post author)
January 26, 2011 at 16:16

@abul-jauzaa

The new LibreOffice 3.3.0 packages will arrive soon. In the meantime I have been busy with the new KDE as well (see my post today).

Eric

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Azmi
February 10, 2011 at 17:02

Ok eric, i will waiting for your release LibreOffice for slackware 🙂

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alienbob (Post author)
February 10, 2011 at 22:30

Azmi, you did not do your research: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/get-it-libreoffice-3-3-0/

Eric

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