[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice massive RDEPEND reduction

2025-02-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-02-28, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Since the official binhost introduction -- which automatically builds >> app-office/liberoffice for gnome and KDE profiles -- there is decreased >> value in pre-building it manually like this. At the same time, the >> maintainers started thinking about using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice massive RDEPEND reduction

2025-02-27 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 2/28/25 12:05 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-28, Eli Schwartz wrote: > >> Back in the day, libreoffice-bin was a version of libreoffice that was >> built by Gentoo developers against Gentoo packages, and hosted as a >> prebuilt tarball. It required specific dependency versions of variou

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice massive RDEPEND reduction

2025-02-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-02-28, Eli Schwartz wrote: > Back in the day, libreoffice-bin was a version of libreoffice that was > built by Gentoo developers against Gentoo packages, and hosted as a > prebuilt tarball. It required specific dependency versions of various > things. Yep. > Since the official binhost i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice and copying web pages

2019-05-05 Thread Dale
(Nuno Silva) wrote: > Here are two ideas that won't solve the problem, but might be useful as > workarounds: > > You could try OpenOffice (only available as openoffice-bin?) and see if > it works better in that situation. > > Depending on the web browser you're using (Seamonkey?), you might have >

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice and copying web pages

2019-05-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-04-30, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some know, I got a printer.  Now I'm trying to get some info and > print it using LOo for the most part.  This is the way I do this.  I go > to a web page, sites will vary, and I highlight what I want and copy it > to the clipboard.  I then go to LOo and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-6.1.5.2 compile fails with 'MEMORY_ALLOC_OPERATORS(SQLException)'

2019-02-18 Thread Mick
On Monday, 18 February 2019 13:23:07 GMT Jacques Montier wrote: > Le lun. 18 févr. 2019 à 11:56, Mick a écrit : > > On Monday, 18 February 2019 09:23:08 GMT Mick wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I've come across this 'MEMORY_ALLOC_OPERATORS(SQLException)' and don't > > > know > > > how to proceed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-6.1.5.2 compile fails with 'MEMORY_ALLOC_OPERATORS(SQLException)'

2019-02-18 Thread Jacques Montier
Le lun. 18 févr. 2019 à 11:56, Mick a écrit : > On Monday, 18 February 2019 09:23:08 GMT Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've come across this 'MEMORY_ALLOC_OPERATORS(SQLException)' and don't > know > > how to proceed. I couldn't find a bug report: > > > > ===

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-6.1.5.2 compile fails with 'MEMORY_ALLOC_OPERATORS(SQLException)'

2019-02-18 Thread Mick
On Monday, 18 February 2019 09:23:08 GMT Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I've come across this 'MEMORY_ALLOC_OPERATORS(SQLException)' and don't know > how to proceed. I couldn't find a bug report: > > == > [CXX] mysqlc/source/mysqlc_connection.cxx > S=/v

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice 6

2018-09-04 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-09-04, james wrote: > I recently upgraded to LO 6.0.6.2; the upgrade went fine. > > > When saving docs, I had it default to ".doc" as the most > common format and I mostly use libreoffice for doz based > folks. > > > Now the save option does not list out all of those choices to save > a fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 17 Apr 2016 23:00:45 Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > PS what does 'tl;dr' mean ? -- I've seen it in other msgs. > > To long; didn't read. I'm fairly sure that is it. Actually, too long; didn't read. > Dale > > :-) :-) :-) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-17 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > PS what does 'tl;dr' mean ? -- I've seen it in other msgs. To long; didn't read. I'm fairly sure that is it. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
160417 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 03:30:15 schrieb Philip Webb: >> So another question arises : >> has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group > no it hasn't in the past, but with 3d acceleration creeping in everywhere. The puzzle for me is that I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-17 Thread Andreas K. Hüttel
Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 03:30:15 schrieb Philip Webb: :) > So another question arises : > has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group no it hasn't in the past, but with 3d acceleration creeping in everywhere... > If the latter, how are users supposed to know re such matt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-16 Thread Mick
On Saturday 16 Apr 2016 21:30:15 Philip Webb wrote: > So another question arises : > has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group > -- in which case, I must have made a mistake somewhere, > perhaps when I installed in my new box 1510xx -- or is it a recent change ? > If the latt

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
160417 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Libreoffice started using the OpenGL system much more > over the last releases. > * Check if "eselect opengl list" settings make sense Yes : root:500 ~> eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia * [2] xorg-x11 > * Check if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
160416 Philip Webb wrote: >> * Check if your user is in the video group > No, it wasn't & of course when I added it, both problems were solved ! I've checked /etc from my previous machine (now stand-by) & my user was in the video group there, so the question becomes : was 'group' created by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

2016-04-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 01:14:19 schrieb Philip Webb: > > LO 5.0.5.2 open the file okay for me, > > but I can't easily test the higher versions at the moment. > > Have you tried running localc from an xterm window > > to look for error messages?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
160416 walt wrote: >> 160416 Philip Webb wrote: >> I've run into a problem opening a M$ Office spreadsheet using >> LibreOffice. I've put the original file up at >> http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ttc-rider-85-15.xlsx >> It should show a table of ridership figures for the Toronto transit s

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

2016-04-16 Thread walt
On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:57:45 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > I've run into a problem opening a M$ Office spreadsheet using > LibreOffice. I've put the original file up at > http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ttc-rider-85-15.xlsx > It should show a table of ridership figures for the Toronto transi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : solved

2015-01-04 Thread Philip Webb
150102 Philip Webb wrote: > 150101 walt wrote: >> On 12/31/2014 04:40 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >>> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >>> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation. >>> Apostrophes & extended dashes are mangled, >>> even when I enter a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : bug report

2015-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
150101 walt wrote: > On 12/31/2014 04:40 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation. >> It occurred to me that it was perhaps being caused by importing a text file >> &/or that the origina

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : bug report

2015-01-01 Thread walt
On 12/31/2014 04:40 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 141231 Philip Webb wrote: >> 141229 Philip Webb wrote: >>> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >>> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : >> I've investigated further & the problem remains. >> It occurr

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice 4..1.0.1

2013-07-04 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 5/07/2013 04:20, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i has trouble with build of libreoffice Version 4.1.0.1. The configure Script break with the follow message: checking for CLUCENE... yes checking for CLucene/analysis/cjk/CJKAnalyzer.h... no configure: error: Your version of libclucene has contrib

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice Compile

2013-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/13 20:53, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, is there a way that i can compile Libreoffice on my Desktop System and copy to the Netbook? Because the netbook need long time to compile libreoffice, and the Desktop is little faster. Or can i build a libreoffice Package on Desktop and copy to the

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice 3.5.2.2 paste special fails

2012-05-03 Thread walt
On 05/02/2012 05:40 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >>> Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr >>> ~/.libreoffice? >>> >> ... >> >> always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then >> move it back if thats not the problem. > > mv ~/.libreoffice ~/.libreoffice-or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails

2012-02-20 Thread James Broadhead
On 19 February 2012 23:08, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Hartmut Figge: > >>But first i should look into that ominous xdg-open. > > 'man xdg-open' didn't help much, but xdg-open is part of xdg-utils. And > there is e.g. xdg-settings. Looking into 'man xdg-settings' and then > > hafi@i5_64 ~ $ xdg-setting

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails

2012-02-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: >But first i should look into that ominous xdg-open. 'man xdg-open' didn't help much, but xdg-open is part of xdg-utils. And there is e.g. xdg-settings. Looking into 'man xdg-settings' and then hafi@i5_64 ~ $ xdg-settings --list Known properties: default-url-scheme-handlerDe

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails

2012-02-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: >How to tell libreoffice which browser it should use? Assuming that nowadays Firefox is used by many people i experimented. hafi@i5_64 ~ $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/affe /usr/bin/firefox 'affe' is the name of my browser which in reality is a daily compiled trunk-seamonkey with so

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails

2012-02-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
walt: >The Help function (on my machines) displays help.libreoffice.org in my web >browser. I have assumed, that the browser would be used, but i couldn't find a place in libreoffice, in which i could tell it, *what* my browser is. And if libreoffice cannot found the browser... ;) > Running dbus

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails

2012-02-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Philip Webb: >& lack of internal help for LO was the only thing which disappeared. >My solution was to download the LO help files from their site (PDFs), >which are actually easier to read + search than the internal help. Isn't the help context-sensitive? Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.u

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails

2012-02-19 Thread walt
On 02/19/2012 08:33 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Greetings, > > after emerging libreoffice-3.4.5.2 i tried getting the help of > libreoffice by pressing F1. No luck, something flashed shortly on the > xterm resulting in several blank lines. Trying 'loffice | tee > so-log.txt' gave this: > > http://

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: >libreoffice-bin doesn't require the above packages. Perhaps it failes >therefore? *g* No. I had emerged them with oneshot to test that and to avoid, that emerging them would count to the time required to emerge libreoffice. Here are the results for my machine. Intel(R) Core(TM) i

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: >Perhaps i should consider using the source myself, because of > >hafi@i5_64 ~ $ loffice >/usr/bin/loffice: line 2: 12258 Illegal instruction >/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice "$@" > >which i just got with an i5. Should i? That would give me these new packages Calculating de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:50:47 +0100 Hartmut Figge wrote: > Thanasis: > >on 02/18/2012 06:57 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > > >> [root@hactar ~ 0]% genlop -t libreoffice > >> * app-office/libreoffice > >> > >> Wed Feb 15 10:23:58 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.3 > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Thanasis: >on 02/18/2012 06:57 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: >> [root@hactar ~ 0]% genlop -t libreoffice >> * app-office/libreoffice >> >> Wed Feb 15 10:23:58 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.3 >>merge time: 40 minutes and 52 seconds. > >Impressive. Yes. Perhaps i shou

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
James Broadhead: [libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1] >It's actually looking for java-1.7 ; but seems to work fine with 1.6 Tcha. Not here. icedtea-bin-1.10.4 isn't found by libreoffice either. Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread James Broadhead
On 16 January 2012 19:51, Hartmut Figge wrote: > walt: > >>Oh, I forgot shotgun v.2 :)  When faced with something as complex >>as libreoffice I usually create a brand new user account and try >>running it from there, to rule out breakage in my home directory. > > Fine to know about this. :) But...

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
walt: >Oh, I forgot shotgun v.2 :) When faced with something as complex >as libreoffice I usually create a brand new user account and try >running it from there, to rule out breakage in my home directory. Fine to know about this. :) But... ;) I could try the unstable sun-jdk. I could try an old

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/16/2012 10:15 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: >> The shotgun approach may work :) > Would have been nice if it worked. But unfortunately... *g* Oh, I forgot shotgun v.2 :) When faced with something as complex as libreoffice I usually create a brand new user account and try running it from there,

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
walt: >I never had user-vm set until just now. It made no difference AFAICT. I am not seeing a difference also. >It seems that your java environment is somehow broken, but I don't know >why. Some part of libreoffice thinks that javaldx is available when it's >not. What does java -version say?

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/16/2012 04:12 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > There is a difference to my x86_64 Gentoo that *may* be important > > x86:64: > Available Java Virtual Machines: > [1] sun-jdk-1.6 system-vm > > i686: > Available Java Virtual Machines: > [1] sun-jdk-1.6 system-vm user-vm > > On i686 there

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
walt: >On 01/15/2012 07:05 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: >> on my x86_64 libreoffice fails to detect Java. I am getting this when >> starting lowriter: >> >> hafi@i5_64 ~ $ lowriter >> Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not fuction correctly >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> [ebuil

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/15/2012 07:05 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Greetings, > > on my x86_64 libreoffice fails to detect Java. I am getting this when > starting lowriter: > > hafi@i5_64 ~ $ lowriter > Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not fuction correctly > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuil

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

2011-11-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-20, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> 4-9GiB is a pretty wide range. > > If the maintainer implemented that, he'd be promptly inundated with > all manner of support question none of which he can answer > accurately. > > A slight mis-measurement on how much space a specific setup needs > results

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-20 Thread Carlos Sura
On 19 April 2011 13:38, walt wrote: > On 04/17/2011 05:32 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: > >> >> >> On 17 April 2011 16:14, walt mailto:w41...@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >> >>On 04/17/2011 11:38 AM, Carlos Sura wrote: >> >> >>But, trying as a normal user, isn't working and I dont have any >> clue

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-19 Thread walt
On 04/17/2011 05:32 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: On 17 April 2011 16:14, walt mailto:w41...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 04/17/2011 11:38 AM, Carlos Sura wrote: But, trying as a normal user, isn't working and I dont have any clue about what is making this problem, there is no log or e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-17 Thread Carlos Sura
On 17 April 2011 16:14, walt wrote: > On 04/17/2011 11:38 AM, Carlos Sura wrote: > >> >>> But, trying as a normal user, isn't working and I dont have any clue >> about what is making this problem, there is no log or error to >> trace. >> >> So, I've unistalled libreoffice, and installed again, b

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-17 Thread walt
On 04/17/2011 11:38 AM, Carlos Sura wrote: But, trying as a normal user, isn't working and I dont have any clue about what is making this problem, there is no log or error to trace. So, I've unistalled libreoffice, and installed again, but... Isn't working yet... I'm not really sure what's thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-17 Thread Carlos Sura
On 15 April 2011 16:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:37:50 -0700, walt wrote: > > > You can try re-emerging dbus-glib if you haven't already done it. > > This whole glib-dbus thing is a red herring. That error was caused by > trying to run LO as root, without an available dbus se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:37:50 -0700, walt wrote: > You can try re-emerging dbus-glib if you haven't already done it. This whole glib-dbus thing is a red herring. That error was caused by trying to run LO as root, without an available dbus session. It has nothing to do with the fact that LO won't r

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-15 Thread walt
On 04/14/2011 01:21 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: On 13 April 2011 01:49, Daniel Pielmeier mailto:bil...@gentoo.org>> wrote: 2011/4/12 Carlos Sura mailto:carlos.su...@googlemail.com>>: > > It might be GLIB? (I've reciently updated) Do you also use the ~amd64 version of glib? What a

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice

2010-10-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 19:30 on Friday 15 October 2010, Florian > Philipp did opine thusly: > [...] >> Just out of curiosity: I thought LibreOffice is just a renamed >> OpenOffice because of trademark issues with Oracle and not even the name >> is fixed for the m