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Are you using LibreOffice Calc? to try to open/save .xls files?
Yes, of course I am using Calc, I have been using it for ages. After creating an Sbo package with the same version (4.3.5.2), there is no problem more with it.
No problems here with opening XLS files in LoCalc 4.3.5.2.
What can you tell about the state of your Slackware system? Did you replace any of the Slackware packages with 3rd party packages?
Yes, of course I am using Calc, I have been using it for ages. After creating an Sbo package with the same version (4.3.5.2), there is no problem more with it.
OK - I just wanted to make sure since you just said "Libreoffice 4.3.5.2 of Alien Bob" without specifying which application in the suite you were using to try to open the file with.
I am able to open .xls and .xlsx files without issue here on my Slackware 14.1 x86_64 multi-lib system running LibreOffice (Calc) 4.3.5.2.
No problems here with opening XLS files in LoCalc 4.3.5.2.
What can you tell about the state of your Slackware system? Did you replace any of the Slackware packages with 3rd party packages?
Eric
Hi Eric,
Well, I am using Salix14.1 and the mate-desktop 1.8 packages of msb. I installed some Sbo packages too. With your Libreoffice4.1.3 there was no such problems. Which package is suspicious in your opinion?
Anyway I have a box with pure Slackware14.1 with mate1.6 on the same machine too, and there there is either no such problem with your last package. It is interesting, isn't it? But because of new mate1.8 and of a lot of unneeded packages (KDE and others) I have decided recently to build a new system on basis of Salix.
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