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@gargamel
Indeed, the UI needs some work.

I'd kill for an UI better designed for widescreen monitors, for example.

Seriously, it's not hard to fit two pages side by side on a 24" LCD but both get cut somewhere near the bottom/top because there are 2-4 toolbars, a menu bar and the window border.

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Has anyone installed a language package?
How would I go about it? Download the 20 MB tar ball with a dozen RPM files in it, then rpm2tgz and installpkg?

LibreOffice language packs

Yes the language packs work just fine but you have to play around with the default install directories. The RPM's install to /opt/libreoffice3 and Alien Bob's package installs to /usr/lib/libreoffice

I did it like this

Code:

mkdir ~/pkg

mkdir ~/tmp



# download the language tar.gz to ~/tmp

cd ~/tmp

tar -xvzf LibO-xxx-xx.tgz

cd en_GB/RPMS

rpm2tgz *.rpm

rm *.rpm

installpkg --root ~/pkg *.tgz

rm ~/pkg/var/log/packages/*

cd  ~/pkg

mkdir usr

mkdir usr/lib

cd opt/

mv libreoffice3 ../usr/lib

cd ..

rmdir opt/

cd usr/lib

mv libreoffice3 libreoffice

cd ~/pkg

makepkg ../libreoffice-en_GB-samac-i486-1.tgz

Do all this as root and substitute your own language and name into the package that you have made and install your package as normal. Once you start libreoffice you will have to change your language settings in options.

samac

@samac: I did something very similar, just letting it install in /opt, as I use the binaries from TDF with my SlackBuild.

I might (if time allows) write a simple SlackBuild that uses one variable for the language and another for choosing the destination of the files (like /opt for the binary version, /lib for Eric's version).

FWIW, (and I know this is a beta), I'm getting crashes with Libreoffice's writer every time I try to dock the navigator panel. :(

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Originally Posted by Lufbery (Post 4136800)

FWIW, (and I know this is a beta), I'm getting crashes with Libreoffice's writer every time I try to dock the navigator panel. :(

uhm, I haven't had a single crash yet (but I'm not really a heavy "Writer" user, I use Calc a lot more).
Can you reproduce this with a few simple steps?
Any error messages? (If you can reproduce it, start Writer from the command line to see possible output when crashing)

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Originally Posted by repo (Post 4136682)

I have removed openoffice and installed libreoffice.
There is no ooffice

Kind regards

I did the same with alienbob's package and there is both.

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Originally Posted by Lufbery (Post 4136800)

FWIW, (and I know this is a beta), I'm getting crashes with Libreoffice's writer every time I try to dock the navigator panel. :(

Strange. It docks fine for me...

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Originally Posted by samac (Post 4136779)

installpkg --root ~/pkg *.tgz

above step will create a ~/pkg/var/log/ there. Since we are going to combine all the small tgz into one tgz, var/log should be deleted.

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above step will create a ~/pkg/var/log/ there. Since we are going to combine all the small tgz into one tgz, var/log should be deleted

I have edited the sequence and added this command

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rm ~/pkg/var/log/packages/*

I haven't tested it, but I reckon it should be OK.

samac

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Originally Posted by samac (Post 4136779)

Code:

mkdir ~/pkg

mkdir ~/tmp



# download the language tar.gz to ~/tmp

cd ~/tmp

tar -xvzf LibO-xxx-xx.tgz

cd en_GB/RPMS

rpm2tgz *.rpm

rm *.rpm

installpkg --root ~/pkg *.tgz

cd  ~/pkg

mkdir usr

mkdir usr/lib

cd opt/

mv libreoffice3 ../usr/lib

cd ..

rmdir opt/

cd usr/lib

mv libreoffice3 libreoffice

cd ~/pkg

makepkg ../libreoffice-en_GB-samac-i486-1.tgz

Thanks a lot, however, I get:

Code:

# rpm2tgz *.rpm

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-base-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-binfilter-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-calc-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-draw-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-help-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-impress-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-math-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-res-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libobasis3.3-de-writer-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libreoffice3-de-3.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)

But with src2pkg I was able to create .tgz files. In the end it worked, and I have LibO with a UI in my language. Thanks a lot!

gargamel

Hi,

I built a SlackBuild script for the language packs. It's currently in the pending queue at SBo, but if you want to try it before it gets approval, feel free to download it from here.

Get your language packs from here (for 32-bits) or here (for 64-bits).

It takes two variables:
- LOLANG as the "locale" (default = en_GB)
- ALIEN to choose "/usr/lib" as the base directory instead of "/opt" (default = no)

So, simply run it as:

Code:

# LOLANG=pt-BR ./libreoffice-langpack.SlackBuild

for the Brazilian Portuguese language pack that will install in /opt

or:

Code:

# LOLANG=nl ALIEN=yes ./libreoffice-langpack.SlackBuild

for the Dutch language pack that will install in /usr/lib, for Eric's packages.

Niels: does this option ALIEN=yes work also for Slack-64 (main library path is /usr/lib64 ;))?

Can anyone prepare some patches, that swich the source building process to use git repository via http protocol? ;)

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Originally Posted by Martinezio (Post 4138279)

Niels: does this option ALIEN=yes work also for Slack-64 (main library path is /usr/lib64 ;))?

Ehh... well, now it does! ;) (just uploaded a corrected version.)

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Originally Posted by brixtoncalling (Post 4136856)

Strange. It docks fine for me...

Are you using Alien Bob's package?

I installed it manually and it seems to work fine (extracted rpms and copied to somewhere locally). It's actually faster than go-oo now.