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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Time to get back on topic.
And with that in mind, Alienbob, has been kind enough to provide a Slackware package for LibreOffice-7.3.2.
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The latest update for LibreOffice Community Edition, version 7.3.2 was released last week, fixing over 80 bugs (see changelogs for RC1 and RC2).
My repository now contains a new set of libreoffice-7.3.2 packages for Slackware 15.0 and -current.
Brilliant! I verified that it works by removing the avahi package first (which I didn't really want anyway).
Quoted here, in full for posterity:
What I did was to run those two gcc commands under the /usr/local/lib64 directory, then "ldconfig". Boom "Impress" loads. Couldn't care less that I can't control it remotely.
Thanks to rkelsen,Loomx, and philanc!!
The simple workaround to create the missing shared objects worked like a charm for me as well.
Both Impress and Draw now launch perfectly. I don't use them but its nice to know that they are available if I need to at some point.
One of the great things about Slackware is that it doesn't force you into any particular way of doing things. If you want to spend hours/days compiling & installing stuff, you can go for your life.
For those of us who actually like to use our computers instead of constantly working on them, AppImages and containers work fine too.
Thanks to Slackware's design, any combination of the above can be expected to work.
With that said, one can't help but think that the mentality of not using "someone else's binary" is more than just a little bit silly... especially when said binary comes from the same people who wrote the source code. The end user would certainly not be able to distinguish between LibreOffice compiled from source and the AppImage.
I totally agree. Being "radical slacker" in everything is silly.
I am sure you wanted to say something here but your crooked use of the English language makes it hard to see.
I hope I hear this from someone who can speak 2 foreign languages at least on the same "crooked" level I speak English. Definitely not.
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Originally Posted by Windu
If that total isolation were true then Slackware people using these appimages would not suffer from the reported Avahi problem, right?
Appimages, containers, they are all dependent on the host operating system, there's nothing mysterious at work, The application is bundled with all its dependencies (or so these developers think when they never used Slackware) and run as a process on the OS. They use resources from the OS that the kernel's capabilities will isolate for them from the rest of the OS. If you want total separation/isolation, use a Virtual Machine.
No comments... I quoted this nonsense to make it visible twice.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Alienbob has been kind enough to provide Slackware packages for LibreOffice-7.3.3.
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Thu May 5 19:34:49 UTC 2022
libreoffice: updated to 7.3.3 for Slackware 15.0 and -current.
On -current, please also install icu4c-compat to get back the older
icu4c libraries that are part of Slackware 15.0 but not -current.
According to the first post, I am still on slackware 14.2 and LO 6.4.6 thanks to AlienBob. Using it daily for my work. I hope
to have some time shortly to upgrade to Slackware 15 and latest LO.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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LibreOffice-7.3.4 Community has been released.
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Berlin, June 9, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3.4 Community, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.3 family, targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/.......
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That will teach me to read the changelog more carefully in future. 
