> I downloaded the latest apk and installed in my tablet. It opens but when
actually trying to create a new file it stops responding. It could be that
the android version I am using is too old for this, but I couldn't get it to
work with either a word or spreadsheet document.
I installed a
I downloaded the latest apk and installed in my tablet. It opens but when
actually trying to create a new file it stops responding. It could be that
the android version I am using is too old for this, but I couldn't get it to
work with either a word or spreadsheet document.
Thanks anyway,
> I've just taken a look at libreoffice.org and found that Collabora just
released an officially "supported" editor for Android and iOS. I'm looking
forward to F-Droid version of Callabora Office, since Google Play is
inaccessible from China.
This morning I emailed the lead developer,
Sorry for the confusion. I meant to say that OnlyOffice on smart phone/tablet
may lack the editing functionality, so the arm version seems to be
implemented as SaaSS.
I've just taken a look at libreoffice.org and found that Collabora just
released an officially "supported" editor for
> It's very likely that Google Play doesn't endorse free/libre software
There's a large amount of GPL'd software in Google Play. Many of the titles
on F-Droid are also on Google Play. You may be thinking of the Apple store,
they may have such a restriction.
> OnlyOffice has made several
It's very likely that Google Play doesn't endorse free/libre software, just
like Rotten Apple app store and Microsoft Losedows store. In order to make
OnlyOffice endorsed by Google Play, the developers had to make a non-free
version (see "selling exceptions" article by RMS).
OnlyOffice has
> I was convinced that ONLYOFFICE was a online solution only. But in this
page (https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx) they also offer
downloadable versions for all operating systems.
The OnlyOffice desktop editors are licensed under GNU AGPL v3, and will run
completely offline.
I was convinced that ONLYOFFICE was a online solution only. But in this page
(https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx) they also offer
downloadable versions for all operating systems. I suppose that means one
could install it on Trisquel in place of LO, if there was a reason for it?
> We have a guide on LibrePlanet wiki on how to navigate back to that type of
life, but in style, and with fewer drawbacks than when it was common to not
have a mobile phone.
That's a good guide to going no-phone, Caleb. It could really be expanded
into a book, and would make for an
Wow, Caleb, this link is awesome. I find it's truly hard to find such
guidance from any other party other than FSF. Thanks.
On 2/25/20 4:50 AM, vas19...@ya.ru wrote:
> Do you replace smartphone with something else?
> I can't imagine my life without a smartphone.
People lived excellent lives in the modern world without them, just a
decade or so ago.
We have a guide on LibrePlanet wiki on how to navigate back to that
Do you replace smartphone with something else?
I can't imagine my life without a smartphone.
There is a "pre-alpha", experimental build of LibreOffice for Android (via
F-Droid), but far from being usable.
However, if you want to create or edit documents (text, spreadsheet,
presentation) efficiently, you may also need an OTG hub, a keyboard and a
mouse.
To make the editing
Given that there is no Office Suite for Android that is Free Software (other
than LO Viewer, which is barebones and not functional in all devices), what
would be your position regarding OnlyOffice, for using it in Android?
Thanks for the input.
Also anyone else who has tried it, any feedback
Your approach is incorrect and perverted (no offence).
Sending file in _standard_ Open Document format is all right, decent and
respectful. It should be even an imperative if you believe in and
respect freedom in communication.
You are not forcing anyone to anything when you send a file in
So you have manually installed latest LibreOffice from terminal. If you run
"soffice" from terminal, which version of LibreOffice is started?
It's also possible to launch Writer, Calc, and Impress by commands
"lowriter", "localc", or "loimpress", respectively. No version number is
Yes, the menu contains launchers. I guess KDE has a utility to edit the menu
and you could see with it what is the command that is executed when you click
on "LibreOffice 6.3". Otherwise, you may find the launcher (a .desktop file)
in ~/.local/share/applications. That is: in the folder
It is available on the Trisquel 9 backports repository.
Cheers!
I have been testing out KDE Plasma so I may have the incorrect terminology
but the application runner 'K' and after that clicking 'Applications', then
'Office' and the 'LibreOffice 6.3' that I had installed shows there. A splash
image saying LibreOffice 6 shows for a second then it's window
What xliang said was true. I have a long article I name it "Support
Open Document Format" presenting several the importance of ODF, why we
all should avoid OOXML, danger of software patents, and many
references & organizations that support ODF too. you can read here
Starting version 2007, Microsoft Office should be able to handle ODF files,
although it always try to persuade users to convert them to Microsoft's
"open" format.
Using free software and free formats allows users to publish their works to
everyone, because only free/open formats are
For the case currently I do not know. I sent him ODF files once and he was
"unable" to open them. I am publishing in .docx still, I adapted and don't
use certain features like the floating text-boxes because often they are
distorted or moved.
"Then still send him the ODF files, until he learns to handle ODF files
correctly."
I would love to, but he's my uncle and I can't really be that way with him.
I'm not a professor or anything I don't have that clout.
An MIT-Professor and Father of Free Software Stallman can by all means
Not an error per se, it says it's not installed. I removed the original
libreoffice suite from my machine, then installed the 6.3 version. In the
application launcher it says 'libreoffice 6.3' whereas before it was just
'libreoffice'. Replace office with whichever program.
I cannot find
Where I live, they only accept OOXML files as well. What a shame.
Before the doomsday, fight it. This shows that we are not willing to accept
our doom. This also adds some bitterness to our enemy's victory.
I really don't know what to say with regards to using OOXML for work,
when I have to run a lot of proprietary JavaScript just to find and
apply for a job.
We're doomed.
<>
Can you try to start writer from the command line? Use this command:
$ lowriter
Do you get any error messages?
According to my experience, the copy of LibreOffice pre-installed by the
GNU/Linux distribution and the copy manually installed by the user can
co-exist, since they are installed to different locations. I didn't
experience serious conflicts between them.
I've checked OnlyOffice's license. It's server and desktop client use AGPL
v3, so it's barely acceptable.
However, do keep in mind that OnlyOffice is implemented as SaaSS, which has
serious freedom and privacy (and maybe also security) issues, even if the
server and client are free
First explain politely to him why it is bad to use proprietary formats like
OOXML. (To do so, you probably also need to explain why OOXML is not a
free/open format, and how did Microsoft get OOXML approved by ISO as an
"open" format.)
If he wouldn't listen, then still send him ODF files,
When I installed LO 6, it shows up in the applications menu and when I click
it it launches however after seeing the libreoffice splash image it never
opens the word processor.
Oh goodness. Yes definitely get on the latest LO. Go to the LO site,
download the deb version for your architecture, extract the resulting tar.gz
file, change directory into the resulting LibreOffice folder and then into
the DEBS folder, and run this command:
sudo apt install *.deb
Or if
Freely as in freedom licensed office suite I know other than
LibreOffice are Calligra Suite (https://www.calligra.org) and
ONLYOFFICE (https://www.onlyoffice.com). Still, I recommend
LibreOffice for you.
Oh wow. I am on libreoffice 5, how did you update with Trisquel?
Maybe use the latest release of LibreOffice?
OnlyOffice can usually do it.
What possible reason does your recipient have for supposedly needing the
document you send him to be in .docx?
Why not just send it to him in Open Document Format (.odt)?
MS Office can open, edit, and save to ODF formats - no need other than
freedom (which is of course huge but set the
Thanks. I really can't help it the person that I'm sending the translation to
needs it in .docx and he needs to be able to edit it through word.
I did, in fairness, try and convince him to use libreoffice. He just wouldn't
budge.
I can already save in .docx thats not a problem, but perhaps
On 1/18/20 5:48 PM, beh...@protonmail.com wrote:
> Alternatively does anyone know how to make LibreOffice more compatible
> where the receiving end is Microsoft Word?
LibreOffice follows the DOCX definition more strictly than Word does,
ironically.
Microsoft diverges from its own standard on
Hi everyone I'm doing some translations and need to send with a .docx
extension however even though I save by choosing .docx the formatting is
messed up and the person I'm sending it to has to delete extra spaces and
tabs where there should be none.
Alternatively does anyone know how to
Hi,
I've recently upgraded to Trisquel 8 with KDE Plasma 5.5.5. Overall, I'm very
impressed. Especially having petsc-complex and slepc-complex available in the
repositories as they are a pain to build from source.
Anyway, I have a really weird problem. In LibreOffice Calc, I cannot see the
Excellent George, glad you were able to get it done. There are some Calc cell
formulas that would automate the task a bit, but your way of doing it may be
faster than learning to use a bunch of formulas.
With no criticism of andyprough intended, the linked LibreOffice page is last
dated 2013,
and the LibreOffice in my version of Trisquel_8 is LibreOffice_5, which has
five years
of improvements in it. On top of that, the solution given depends on an
unexplained
substitution of "Find: .*" and
Might want to check out this page, see if you have the same trouble:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/6466/trouble-formatting-date-cells-in-calc/
If not, I can post a series of formulas that will do the job for you.
My Raw Access files come to me from cPanel with their dates in the form
DD/MMM/ as
in 01/Apr/2018. I am now facing a spreadsheet of 5000+ rows and A through O
columns which
I would like to sort in day-to-day order, Day 1 through Day 31, for example.
What I am
getting instead is
> or do the latest versions of the Office suite now include a export to PDF?
They do. They also support ODF.
But this doesn't sound to me like a problem with formats. It sounds more like
a problem with this particular file. Maybe the file is just so large that
it's taking a long time to
Thanks, the PowerPoint files were successfully converted into .odp files.
Unfortunately, the freeze problem is still there, even when I open the .odp
files. Since this issue affects more than 1 file format, I'll edit my post to
reflect that.
Maybe this would work
"Converting Many Microsoft Office Files into OpenDocument Format
The Document Converter Wizard will copy and convert all Microsoft Office
files in a folder into LibreOffice documents in the OpenDocument file format.
You can specify the folder to be read, and the folder
Hello Trisquel users,
It has been roughly 6 months since I've installed Trisquel 7.0, and it has
been great so far. Everything has worked. However, when I tried to open a
large .pptx file yesterday, LibreOffice froze completely. The first 3 slides
displayed as loaded, but the rest of the
I'm at a loss. I reinstalled "ure". I tried libreoffice --nologo.
Still crashes after the splash screen. I'm ready to frisbee this laptop and
or myself out the window.
I would try these experiments:
1.) Open a terminal and type the command for a specific module of Libre
Office: /usr/bin/lowriter or /usr/bin/localc or /usr/bin/loimpress and so on.
Do it without sudo and then with sudo. What messages did you get in the
terminal when it crashes? Try each
I've looked over my past comments and I'm not sure what you're referring to.
I don't know what "ure" is. Perhaps this is my problem.
Just tried opening libreoffice under the default Guest account and
libreoffice still crashes.
Hello people,
I am unable to open any libreoffice applications. They appear temporarily on
the task bar and a few seconds later it disappears.
I tried running libreoffice in terminal and got this:
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared
libraries:
No broken packages
Beware what you remove. Anyway, next time (if) that happens I recommend you
just try removing the folder I told you.
If that does not work, **then** do:
sudo apt purge libreoffice && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt install
libreoffice
Yeah copied and pasted correctly. Everything seemed to uninstall and
reinstall correctly.
Attempted to run libreoffice from terminal by typing "libreoffice" and I got
this in response:
tri@tri:~$ libreoffice
terminate called after throwing an instance of
I've removed absolutely every package that had anything to do with
libreoffice, and reinstalled, and it seems to be working now. Not sure what
was missing in the first place, but it's fixed now.
Did you copy pasta that command or type it and mess up the number of the
ampersands? (&)
Copy pasta is particularly tasty in GNU/Linux where it's enough to highlight
a passage to select it and then use "middle button" to paste it.
Not even removing libreoffice-base and reinstalling works. Very strange.
Do you too see that error message or just have an issue with LO?
If the splash is giving you trouble, you can use the --nologo parameter to
skip it.
try removing the libreoffice folder in the .config folder in /home.
Thanks for the reply. I tried that but got the return of "oosplash: no
process found"
I have the same problem from time to time. What I finally found that works
like a charm for me is:
sudo killall oosplash
Ok the problem has emerged again and deleting the .config/libreoffice folder
didn't work. Following those commands, I get this bizarre occurrence:
tri@tri:~$ sudo apt-get purge libreoffice && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo
apt-get install libreoffice
[sudo] password for tri:
Reading
repo forever
PS openoffice is an almost dead project
"LO has the advantage of being able to incorperate code from Apache into LO,
but not vice-versa."
Is that because of licensing issues?
"Apache's pretty much dead, friend."
Just for clarity, do you mean *Apache* is dead, or *Apache OpenOffice* is
dead?
Is the PPA managed by the Document Foundation themselves?
Usually I only use software from the repos OR when it's very specific
software downloaded from the original developer website (the Tor Browser
being an example of it, which is really cool seeing as now they have a auto
updater
I don't think so; the PPA's description uses the third person to describe The
Document Foundation, and the LibreOffice website doesn't link to it.
Have you noticed improvements in terms of speed (booting and general usage)
and compatibility with MS Office?
I am still trying to decide if I will use the PPA or not.
I read a recent blog post from Apache saying they would like to have
contributions from other derivatives (apparently most
LO5 is slightly faster than 4 (works better with xmonad, as well), and has
extremely better compatibility with MS Office formats.
LO has the advantage of being able to incorperate code from Apache into LO,
but not vice-versa. Apache's pretty much dead, friend.
Where do you prefer to get LibreOffice? From Trisquel repos (older version,
presumably more stable but less features) or from their own website, which
has a deb package that can install itself like a charm (newer, maybe with
some undiscovered bugs but more features).
Or since I am asking,
I don't have a need for the latest LibreOffice release. The only reason I
would download LibreOffice from the LibreOffice website is if I found that I
did need the latest version for some particular reason.
I install software ONLY from my repo. The few applications I don't find in my
repo or that are of an older version and don't work properly I wget the
source, untar, install the dependencies and compile.
cheers Gnuser!
In general I prefer to use as much software as possible from Trisquels repo.
If its buggy version in Trisquel repo (Liferea) or I must have "the newest
version" I find another source but that isnt many programs. Libreoffice
version insluded in Trisquel 7 works great for me.
I use the KISS
Admittedly I don't do a lot with Office suites. Usually just need to open
some documents that people send me. Which is sometimes a problem, when I have
an important document that I need to use correctly (stuff like CVs, legal
documents that need to be returned, etc) I need the best
Also, I like my all my programs to be fast. LibreOffice seems to improve
booting times with each new release. Was very pleased with the improvement
from 3 to 4 and was wondering how it would be now in 5.
The PPA from https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa is very
up to date and recommended.
I use LibreOffice in the repos until I make a decision that there is a
special feature in the newer version that I need to use. When that happens, I
download the deb from the oficial website and I install it in all pcs of the
network that work together even if they use another OS.
I use LibreOffice 5 from their PPA-- it's definately a great improvement over
4.
Version 4 should work for your needs just fine, if you want to avoid PPAs and
stick to Trisquel's repo.
And no, I don't use OpenOffice. There isn't any reason to-- Apache's pretty
much abandoned it, leaving it
Thanks, worth sharing..
Requirements
* C++ coding experience
* basic LibreOffice development know-how
* fluent English
20 hours a week, location independent.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/15/tdf-freelance-job-opening-201507-01-development-mentoring-lead/
Calinou said:
It's ~/.config/libreoffice.
That did the trick. Now Libreoffice writer will open a 574MB Inbox file, but,
alas, even after expanding Libreoffice's access to RAM to 200MB, the file
never fully opens, even after 18 hours of trying ... the hard drive activity
light stays on
Until yesterday, my kept-up-to-date installation of Trisquel 7 ran
Libreoffice flawlessly on a ThinkPad T420 laptop with 4GB of RAM.
Then I tried to open a 500MB binary (or text) file (an old Inbox from a Win98
installation of Netscape) and that came up as all pound signs (a.k.a. number
Magic Banana would:
... try to remove the .libreoffice directory (a hidden directory) in your
home folder.
Alas, there's no .libreoffice directory there. My Google search suggested
the same approach, which sounds perfectly logical.
also remember to enable seeing hidden folders.
I have had a similar issue but only when the system is doing updates or has
high CPU load. This probably won't help you but it might give you something
else to try.
don't think this is related but several times keyboard issues experienced buy
Trisquel users were solved by simply disabling i-bus in the the Language
support tab - keyboard input method system.
Give it a try maybe..
cheers!
Try reinstalling LibreOffice, or removing the libreoffice folder located in
/home/username/.config.
Or downloading the new version from their website, or use their PPA.
I'm experiencing a horrifying bug in LibreOffice 4.2.7.2 on Trisquel 7.
It has two parts. First, when deleting text using the backspace key, it only
deletes slowly, one letter at a time (even when I press the key much more
frequently or hold it down). But then, once I've released the
libreoffice works fine except for base - I can't open nor create a new
database.I get:
The connection to the data source New Database could not be established.
SQL Status: HY000
The connection to the external data source could not be established. No SDBC
driver was found for the URL
nevermind -solved
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb
thanks for the help!
Hi all,
I am using Trisquel mini and I installed libre office and the unoconv tool.
I have exported an ODT to pdf and I have seen that the pdf that came out has
the colours wrong, I would say reversed. Does this happen to anybody else?
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Try asking at http://ask.libreoffice.org.
Not to me in either Trisquel or Trisquel mini when I last did it some
months ago. Colors reversing is the sort of thing that happens when
you get a mismatch between RGB and CYMK colour model selections. So
if e.g. you're seeing it in photos you've embedded you might check
which color model
Btw has anyone tried out the 4.0 code yet? I know there may be a release in
February, but I haven't tried it out yet. I also noticed that LibreOffice 4.0
is switchign to the Mozilla Public License 2.0:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Re-Basing
Then is there anyway I can uninstall version 3.4.4 from Trisquel 5.5 so I can
install 3.6.4? Thanks for your help, but the backports aren't really helpful
to me; I don't know how to use them and don't even have an Internet
connection on the computer on which I wish to install them.
I haven't tried it, but you ought to be able to just uninstall it (well, the
components, individually, e.g. Writer, Impress, Calc) in the package manager.
Use Synaptic if that doesn't work.
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