Anybody already tested Libreoffice4 from Experimental?

[Lanzi]

Does run stable? Any known bugs?

[DeepDayze]

I've installed it and it rums pretty well so far and it opened my .docx documents fairly well with a few glitches natch, but better than with 3.6.x

[michaa7]

I installed it and so far no problems.

BTW: Can anyone tell me on what font settings the LO-*UI* fonts depend? My DE is fluxbox ;-). Here most (not all) programms have sufficently big fonts, and with LO they are to small.

[devil]

LO4 should be completely fine, as is amarok 2.7. They are sitting in exp. because of the freeze. I remember we had a perfectly fine OO 3.0 sitting in exp. during the last freeze too.

greetz
devil

[Lanzi]

Thanks for the hint with amarok!

But

apt-get install -t experimental amarok libreoffice

Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
 libavcodec53

[devil]

libavcodec53 gibts bei mir schon lang nimmer dafür aber libavcodec-extra-53

greetz
devil

[dibl]

Hmmmmmm ....

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grave bugs of libreoffice-impress (1:3.6.2~rc1-1 -> 1:4.0.0-1) <unfixed>
#701024 - libreoffice-impress: impress 4.0 cannot open any presentation writen by impress 3.6.x
Summary:
libreoffice-impress(1 bug)
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****** Exiting with an error in order to stop the installation. ******
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E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error code (10)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10

Is that the only problem with LO 4?

[Lanzi]

hmmm, since I never use impress, I will install LO4 and test it later :-)

[orangeli]

I tried LibreOffice a long time ago and the experience was so bad it convinced me nothing compares to Apache OpenOffice.

[devil]

That does not hold true anymore. Au contraire.

greetz
devil

[Lanzi]

@Dibl: I have only some older odp on my computer, since I never have to use impress. I tested the older odp's with LO 4 and think everything works fine. No problems here!

[dibl]

I don't understand how you guys are getting LO 4 to install.  "apt-get install -t experimental libreoffice" did not do the job, but it did pull in the packages.  So I went to use dpkg:

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root@imerabox:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i libreoffice*
Selecting previously unselected package libreoffice.
(Reading database ... 248593 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libreoffice (from libreoffice_1%3a4.0.0-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libreoffice-base.
Unpacking libreoffice-base (from libreoffice-base_1%3a4.0.0-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libreoffice-base-core.
Unpacking libreoffice-base-core (from libreoffice-base-core_1%3a4.0.0-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libreoffice-calc.
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dpkg: error processing libreoffice-common (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-java-common:
libreoffice-java-common depends on libreoffice-common; however:
 Package libreoffice-common is not configured yet.
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Errors were encountered while processing:
libreoffice
libreoffice-base
libreoffice-base-core
libreoffice-calc
libreoffice-core
libreoffice-draw
libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-math
libreoffice-style-galaxy
libreoffice-style-oxygen
libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-common
libreoffice-java-common

EDIT: Never mind. In /var/lib/libreoffice was a subdirectory "share" that had to be rm'd, then the installation went through.

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root@imerabox:/home/don# apt-cache policy libreoffice
libreoffice:
 Installed: 1:4.0.0-1
 Candidate: 1:4.0.0-1

[devil]

LO4 installed here completely without hickups by apt-get install (64-bit) a week ago and last night on a notebook.

greetz
devil

[ReinerS]

I also installed it last night (64-Bit).
The only problem I found until now is that the package libreoffice-filter-binfilter , which is responsible for handling the older file formats (i.e. for Star-Office 5.2 and older) is missing yet.
As I still have quite a number of such files archived I hope that this package follows soon too.

regards

Reiner

[ralul]

@ReinerS,
it was the main goal and intention of the libreoffice fork to make the source code of the project maintainable again and dump old code.

When I compile with Gentoo:
libreoffice-3 = ca 7 Gigabyte used
libreoffice-4 = ca 2 Gigabyte used

This was to enable faster development.

@ReinerS, did you try to open these old files? For some old formats libreoffice-4 should be able to just read. If you then "save as newerFormat" you should be able to edit ...