Openoffice.org on Gentoo

Luc484 · Veteran Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy

Hi. Is there anyone around here who has openoffice compiled from the sources directly distributed by openoffice without using the version which is in portage? I found something strange in 2.0.2 compiled from sources which are in portage and it seems it is a bug. I filed a report to openoffice.org, but they told me to try a version different from the one which is in portage to see if the bug is affecting both or not. Is there anyone who can test this for me as I would like not to have to recompile everything?
Thanks.

DoktorSeven · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject:

emerge openoffice-bin ?
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BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject:

You'd probably be better of posting a bug for gentoo (at bugs.gentoo.org). They should be able to see if it is a gentoo bug or a general openoffice bug. The gentoo developers encourage you to post bugs with gentoo first anyway, that way they can check if the bug is gentoo specific. Otherwise they will post a bug report with the package developers.

Luc484 · Veteran Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy

Luc484 · Veteran Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy

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mark_alec · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:10 am Post subject:

Moved from Off the Wall to Desktop Environments. Support questions can go in the support forums

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Luc484 · Veteran Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy

I filed the bugreport here. Could someone with openoffice-bin installed please try to reproduce the bug? They asked me to try this, but I don't have any system with openoffice-bin installed and I don't know whether I can install both. Thanks.

phajdan.jr · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject:

Couldn't reproduce it. Using openoffice-bin on amd64...

You can't have openoffice and openoffice-bin installed at the same time. But you can create a binary package of openoffice (quickpkg openoffice), unmerge it and emerge openoffice-bin.

Keiko · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 98

Hia Luc484,

I had a similar problem, with the 'open dialog box', after upgrading from 2.00, i tried 2.0.1-r1 and 2.0.2, both failed. To get a functioining office, i've had to emerge openoffice-bin, and its working fine for me, though i do play to try again with the source emerge, maybe next week.

Keiko

dobysirius · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject:

Luc484 · Veteran Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy

Ok, then this is an issue related to the sources only. Thanks.

MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

And I am able to reproduce the bug in my version compiled from source(so not openoffice-bin).
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