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LibreOffice 6

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Gerson
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Re: LibreOffice 6

#41 Post by Gerson »

timkb4cq wrote:
The easiest way to get LibreOffice 6 in MX-17 is to use the MX Package Installer.
Start -> MX-Tools -> Package Installer -> Full App Catalog (tab) -> Debian Backports Repo
Select libreoffice and libroffice-base and click Install.
Yes, it will automatically remove the older version as it installs.
I just performed as proposed above and the installation is a success; I have LibreOffice 6 without traces of LibreOffice 5.4
No todos ignoramos las mismas cosas. :confused:

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Re: LibreOffice 6

#42 Post by nathan2423 »

Do you plan to eventually move this to the main MX17 repo? Is there any reason that, if you plan to do that, I should wait for that rather than using the backports option?

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Re: LibreOffice 6

#43 Post by Jerry3904 »

I think the plan is to move it in over the next couple of weeks. Whether you wait or not is your call, end result will be the same.
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Re: LibreOffice 6

#44 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Those weeks became one day. ;) I just saw it appear in my upgrade overview. Will this take care of the previous install, or is there something special I need to do?
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Re: LibreOffice 6

#45 Post by Jerry3904 »

It should remove the previous install.
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Re: LibreOffice 6

#46 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Looks like it does, I don't see weird stuff in the menus or anything.

Works just fine, thanks!
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Re: LibreOffice 6

#47 Post by newguy »

I suspect this upgrade is why my LibreOffice applications stopped working this morning, reporting a missing dependency. This is the error I get trying to launch LibreOffice (loffice):

/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so: undefined symbol: _ZN11LanguageTagC1ERKS_

Update: I eventually managed to fix this by doing a full removal of the LibreOffice suite and then re-installing. This morning's "apt upgrade" borked the whole suite. I don't think it is a good idea to do a big version bump of a major application like LibreOffice in the main repo. One of the reasons I use MX is because it's based on Debian Stable and is less likely to change or introduce surprises like this.

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Re: LibreOffice 6

#48 Post by Jerry3904 »

Thanks for the feedback, and sorry you had that problem.

We tested it a good amount, but certainly not for all languages.
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Re: LibreOffice 6

#49 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Just in case someone wants to know.. this is what it did to my system here:

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Upgraded the following packages:
fonts-opensymbol (2:102.10+LibO5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 2:102.10+LibO6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-base (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-base-core (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-base-drivers (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-calc (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-common (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-core (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-draw (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-gtk2 (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-help-en-us (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-impress (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-java-common (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-math (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-pdfimport (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-report-builder-bin (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-style-galaxy (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
libreoffice-writer (1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
uno-libs3 (5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 6.0.1-1~bpo9+1
ure (5.4.1-1~bpo9+1) to 6.0.1-1~bpo9+1

Installed the following packages:
libboost-chrono1.62.0 (1.62.0+dfsg-4)
libboost-locale1.62.0 (1.62.0+dfsg-4)
libboost-thread1.62.0 (1.62.0+dfsg-4)
libreoffice-style-tango (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1)

As said earlier, went fine and without problems.

Running plain jane English though, not the Dutch translation or anything (yeah I translate the stuff but I hate using Dutch on computers unless I have to haha).
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Re: LibreOffice 6

#50 Post by dolphin_oracle »

newguy wrote:I suspect this upgrade is why my LibreOffice applications stopped working this morning, reporting a missing dependency. This is the error I get trying to launch LibreOffice (loffice):

/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so: undefined symbol: _ZN11LanguageTagC1ERKS_

Update: I eventually managed to fix this by doing a full removal of the LibreOffice suite and then re-installing. This morning's "apt upgrade" borked the whole suite. I don't think it is a good idea to do a big version bump of a major application like LibreOffice in the main repo. One of the reasons I use MX is because it's based on Debian Stable and is less likely to change or introduce surprises like this.

ok, this is interesting. the failure is likely due to

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apt upgrade
vs.

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apt-get upgrade
this is the first time I've seen them produce different results. here they are...

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┌─[dolphin@littlebyte]─[11:39:05 am]─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────[~]
└─> sudo apt-get upgrade -s
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core
  libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw
  libreoffice-gtk2 libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress libreoffice-java-common
  libreoffice-math libreoffice-pdfimport libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb
  libreoffice-style-galaxy libreoffice-writer
The following packages will be upgraded:
  fonts-opensymbol uno-libs3 ure
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Inst fonts-opensymbol [2:102.10+LibO5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (2:102.10+LibO6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Inst ure [5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) []
Inst uno-libs3 [5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf fonts-opensymbol (2:102.10+LibO6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Conf ure (6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf uno-libs3 (6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])

┌─[dolphin@littlebyte]─[11:40:49 am]─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────[~]
└─> sudo apt upgrade -s
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libvisio-0.1-1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libboost-chrono1.62.0 libboost-locale1.62.0 libboost-thread1.62.0 libreoffice-style-tango
The following packages will be upgraded:
  fonts-opensymbol libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core
  libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw
  libreoffice-gtk2 libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress libreoffice-java-common
  libreoffice-math libreoffice-pdfimport libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb
  libreoffice-style-galaxy libreoffice-writer uno-libs3 ure
21 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst fonts-opensymbol [2:102.10+LibO5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (2:102.10+LibO6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Inst libboost-chrono1.62.0 (1.62.0+dfsg-4 Debian:9.3/stable [amd64])
Inst libboost-thread1.62.0 (1.62.0+dfsg-4 Debian:9.3/stable [amd64])
Inst libboost-locale1.62.0 (1.62.0+dfsg-4 Debian:9.3/stable [amd64])
Inst ure [5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) []
Inst uno-libs3 [5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Inst libreoffice-calc [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) []
Inst libreoffice-impress [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) []
Inst libreoffice-draw [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) []
Inst libreoffice-gtk2 [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) []
Inst libreoffice-writer [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) []
Inst libreoffice-help-en-us [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all]) []
Inst libreoffice-base [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) []
Inst libreoffice-core [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) [libreoffice-common:amd64 on libreoffice-core:amd64] [libreoffice-math:amd64 libreoffice-report-builder-bin:amd64 libreoffice-base-core:amd64 libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb:amd64 libreoffice-common:amd64 libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-style-galaxy [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all]) [libreoffice-common:amd64 on libreoffice-core:amd64] [libreoffice-common:amd64 on libreoffice-style-galaxy:amd64] [libreoffice-math:amd64 libreoffice-report-builder-bin:amd64 libreoffice-base-core:amd64 libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb:amd64 libreoffice-common:amd64 libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-pdfimport [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all]) [libreoffice-common:amd64 on libreoffice-core:amd64] [libreoffice-common:amd64 on libreoffice-style-galaxy:amd64] [libreoffice-math:amd64 libreoffice-report-builder-bin:amd64 libreoffice-base-core:amd64 libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb:amd64 libreoffice-common:amd64 libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-java-common [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all]) [libreoffice-common:amd64 on libreoffice-core:amd64] [libreoffice-common:amd64 on libreoffice-style-galaxy:amd64] [libreoffice-math:amd64 libreoffice-report-builder-bin:amd64 libreoffice-base-core:amd64 libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb:amd64 libreoffice-common:amd64 libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-common [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all]) [libreoffice-math:amd64 libreoffice-report-builder-bin:amd64 libreoffice-base-core:amd64 libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb:amd64 libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) [libreoffice-math:amd64 libreoffice-report-builder-bin:amd64 libreoffice-base-core:amd64 libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-base-core [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) [libreoffice-math:amd64 libreoffice-report-builder-bin:amd64 libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-report-builder-bin [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) [libreoffice-math:amd64 libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-math [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) [libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) [libreoffice-base-drivers:amd64 ]
Inst libreoffice-base-drivers [1:5.4.1-1~bpo9+1] (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64]) []
Inst libreoffice-style-tango (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Conf fonts-opensymbol (2:102.10+LibO6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Conf libboost-chrono1.62.0 (1.62.0+dfsg-4 Debian:9.3/stable [amd64])
Conf libboost-thread1.62.0 (1.62.0+dfsg-4 Debian:9.3/stable [amd64])
Conf libboost-locale1.62.0 (1.62.0+dfsg-4 Debian:9.3/stable [amd64])
Conf ure (6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf uno-libs3 (6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-calc (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-impress (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-draw (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-gtk2 (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-writer (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-help-en-us (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Conf libreoffice-base (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-core (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-style-galaxy (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Conf libreoffice-pdfimport (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Conf libreoffice-java-common (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Conf libreoffice-common (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])
Conf libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-base-core (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-report-builder-bin (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-math (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-base-drivers (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [amd64])
Conf libreoffice-style-tango (1:6.0.1-1~bpo9+1 MX repository:17.0/mx [all])

┌─[dolphin@littlebyte]─[11:40:55 am]─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────[~]
└─> 
note that apt upgrade allows installation of packages when apt-get upgrade would hold them back. consulting the man pages indicates that apt-get upgrade is in fact not equivalent to apt upgrade. So I suspect some conflict set in.

investigating now. note that an apt-get dist-upgrade or a apt full-upgrade likely would have worked, but I haven't tested that as yet.
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