Office extension - Libreoffice for TC 5.X

[meo]

Hi guys!

I think that an office extension is what is lacking most in the TC 5.X repository. I would love to have Libreoffice (one of the newer versions) in my setup of TC 5.X. I think a lot of users would agree. If I had the skills I would take it on myself but that's not an option. So please ...

Kind regards,
meo

[meo]

Hi guys!

Is nobody up to making an office extension to this up to date version of TC?

Hope someone has both the skills and the willingness,
meo

[Juanito]

I tried with v-4.0.3, or something like that, and it wouldn't compile - libreoffice's lists did not seem too surprised...

[theYinYeti]

Hi meo. I think I have the skills. I do have the willingness, although TC users would then have the willingness to wait a bit (because I don't have much free time, nor do I have a powerfull PC for compiling).
Believe it or not, I have been thinking about doing exactly what you want for a week or so. However, I'm a bit lost on the way of doing this properly. If I understand correctly, I should first request the proper maintainer of LibreOffice to update their package, and then (one week after) do it myself if the official maintainer does nothing.
But I'm not sure where this request should be posted. Is there a thread somewhere dedicated to LibreOffice, or should I create a new topic in TCE News, of TCE xxx…
And then, who should I address the request to? I have no idea who is the current maintainer of LibreOffice.

[hint] More transparency in the area of packages management may speed up users involvement [/hint]

[Juanito]

From:

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/tcz/libreoffice.tcz.info

Code: [Select]

Extension_by: Arslan S.
..so the idea is that you send a pm from this forum to Arslan S requesting an update.

[theYinYeti]

Thank you Juanito! You rightfully deserve the title of Hero Member
I'll PM Arslan S, then.

[jls]

https://code.google.com/p/tc-ext-tools/source/browse/packages/libreoffice

[meo]

Hi the Yin Yeti!

Looking forward with anticipation!!!

Kind regards,
meo

[meo]

Hi guys!

Is anybody working on an office extension? It would be a great addition to the repository.

Kind regards,
meo

[theYinYeti]

Not me, yet, sorry. I had some work to do in real life

[theYinYeti]

Just so you know, I have started working on making the Libreoffice extension. It's not easy at all. I did not expect such difficulties from such a mainstream program.
Anyway, I *think* I got everything to compile, but I'm not sure (the VM hanged…). I'll try again with more RAM.

However, to get to this point, I had to disable help, and disable any language other than en-US

Besides, I have a strange issue with java-installer, about "libjava.so" not being found, whereas a plain xzcat|tar -xf of the jdk is OK… And I don't see obvious abnormal differences in content between the tcz and the tar.xz extraction.

I'll keep you informed, but it's a slow work anyway

[Juanito]

I had the same experience when I compiled libreoffice a long time back - a lot of difficulty, many options had to be disabled, etc.

When I tried the latest version on tc-5.x a while ago, it wouldn't compile at all - but, good luck 

[theYinYeti]

I'm sorry to inform you that I probably won't be able to create this extension after all. With 1.5 GB RAM, I simply don't have enough memory while compiling, or so it seems
I'll try one last time on my wife's laptop, which is slower but has more RAM (2GB RAM!). I'll let you know…

[gerald_clark]

Try adding a swap device and disabling zswap.

[theYinYeti]

Thanks gerald_clark, I'll try that!