[opensuse] OpenOffice.org versions
My install of OpenSuse 11.0 appears to be usinr 2.4.0.14.1, not even 2.4.1 I was hoping to find an update to 3.0 in the repositories, but no such luck. Anyone know when 3.0 will hit the package manager? Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Robert E A Harvey wrote:
My install of OpenSuse 11.0 appears to be usinr 2.4.0.14.1, not even 2.4.1
I was hoping to find an update to 3.0 in the repositories, but no such luck.
Anyone know when 3.0 will hit the package manager?
Bob
v3 is already available and was installed by zypper a few days ago. Select the OpenOffice (STABLE) repository in YaST2 Software Repositories. Ciao. -- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Basil Chupin wrote:
Robert E A Harvey wrote:
My install of OpenSuse 11.0 appears to be usinr 2.4.0.14.1, not even 2.4.1
I was hoping to find an update to 3.0 in the repositories, but no such luck.
Anyone know when 3.0 will hit the package manager?
Bob
v3 is already available and was installed by zypper a few days ago. Select the OpenOffice (STABLE) repository in YaST2 Software Repositories.
Ciao.
Bob, I have OpenOffice_org-2.4.1.10-1.1 on 11.0. It was installed via a yast update all packages with the repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11... 2.4.1 has been great. I'm in no hurry for 3.0 from a "need new features" standpoint, but I can't wait to see the improvements. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
My autoupdate has installed 3.0 and its a bomb. I tried opening some files I was working on last week with 2.4 and it crashed. Restarting causes a recovery, that then crashes. Trying to open without a document causes the recovery of the old document to run ... and then a crash. Updates seem to be daily, but this is distressing in the mean time. Definitely a work-stopper! David C. Rankin said the following on 10/24/2008 02:10 AM:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Robert E A Harvey wrote:
My install of OpenSuse 11.0 appears to be usinr 2.4.0.14.1, not even 2.4.1
I was hoping to find an update to 3.0 in the repositories, but no such luck.
Anyone know when 3.0 will hit the package manager?
Bob
v3 is already available and was installed by zypper a few days ago. Select the OpenOffice (STABLE) repository in YaST2 Software Repositories.
Ciao.
Bob,
I have OpenOffice_org-2.4.1.10-1.1 on 11.0. It was installed via a yast update all packages with the repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11...
2.4.1 has been great. I'm in no hurry for 3.0 from a "need new features" standpoint, but I can't wait to see the improvements.
-- Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. Thomas H. Huxley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote:
My autoupdate has installed 3.0 and its a bomb.
I tried opening some files I was working on last week with 2.4 and it crashed.
Restarting causes a recovery, that then crashes.
Trying to open without a document causes the recovery of the old document to run ... and then a crash.
Updates seem to be daily, but this is distressing in the mean time. Definitely a work-stopper!
David C. Rankin said the following on 10/24/2008 02:10 AM:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Robert E A Harvey wrote:
My install of OpenSuse 11.0 appears to be usinr 2.4.0.14.1, not even 2.4.1
I was hoping to find an update to 3.0 in the repositories, but no such luck.
Anyone know when 3.0 will hit the package manager?
Bob
v3 is already available and was installed by zypper a few days ago. Select the OpenOffice (STABLE) repository in YaST2 Software Repositories.
Ciao.
Bob,
I have OpenOffice_org-2.4.1.10-1.1 on 11.0. It was installed via a yast update all packages with the repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11...
2.4.1 has been great. I'm in no hurry for 3.0 from a "need new features" standpoint, but I can't wait to see the improvements.
Strange, working perfectly here with all documents including ones created using MS Word. Ciao. -- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 24 October 2008, Basil Chupin wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
My autoupdate has installed 3.0 and its a bomb.
I tried opening some files I was working on last week with 2.4 and it crashed.
Restarting causes a recovery, that then crashes.
Trying to open without a document causes the recovery of the old document to run ... and then a crash.
Updates seem to be daily, but this is distressing in the mean time. Definitely a work-stopper!
David C. Rankin said the following on 10/24/2008 02:10 AM:
Basil Chupin wrote: ... . . .> >>
2.4.1 has been great. I'm in no hurry for 3.0 from a "need new features" standpoint, but I can't wait to see the improvements.
Strange, working perfectly here with all documents including ones created using MS Word.
Ciao.
I have been using OpenOffice 2.4.1 Impress to edit powerpoint files. It had worked well until recently when a particular existing ppt file caused it to crash. The automatic recovery didn't work. So I installed the 3.0 version from the Suse repository. It opened the file ok, but I quickly found that if I used anything other than the default, plain background master slide, it would not save as a powerpoint file. Since I need them to be useable in MS Office, that was not acceptable. As an experiment, I removed the OpenSuse version of OpenOffice and installed the version from the OpenOffice site. This installed into my root directory, and seems to work ok. I can save powerpoint files with no problem. The same file occasionally causes OO to crash, but the automatic recovery works, and even provides a useful reporting option. So the question is, why an Opensuse branded version which doesn't work when the OpenOffice version works just fine. The only thing I get with the Suse version is automatic entries in the KDE menu, but I can change those links myself! Bernie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bernie Gardner wrote:
On Friday 24 October 2008, Basil Chupin wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
My autoupdate has installed 3.0 and its a bomb.
I tried opening some files I was working on last week with 2.4 and it crashed.
Restarting causes a recovery, that then crashes.
Trying to open without a document causes the recovery of the old document to run ... and then a crash.
Updates seem to be daily, but this is distressing in the mean time. Definitely a work-stopper!
David C. Rankin said the following on 10/24/2008 02:10 AM:
Basil Chupin wrote:
... . . .> >>
2.4.1 has been great. I'm in no hurry for 3.0 from a "need new features" standpoint, but I can't wait to see the improvements.
Strange, working perfectly here with all documents including ones created using MS Word.
Ciao.
I have been using OpenOffice 2.4.1 Impress to edit powerpoint files. It had worked well until recently when a particular existing ppt file caused it to crash. The automatic recovery didn't work. So I installed the 3.0 version from the Suse repository. It opened the file ok, but I quickly found that if I used anything other than the default, plain background master slide, it would not save as a powerpoint file. Since I need them to be useable in MS Office, that was not acceptable. As an experiment, I removed the OpenSuse version of OpenOffice and installed the version from the OpenOffice site. This installed into my root directory, and seems to work ok. I can save powerpoint files with no problem. The same file occasionally causes OO to crash, but the automatic recovery works, and even provides a useful reporting option. So the question is, why an Opensuse branded version which doesn't work when the OpenOffice version works just fine. The only thing I get with the Suse version is automatic entries in the KDE menu, but I can change those links myself!
Cannot comment on anything you mention about editing powerpoint files because I do not use powerpoint for anything. You don't make it clear (above) which you are referring to when you mention "powerpoint file" - are you talking about what OO produces or what MS produces? However, I can express a query about your use of "a particular existing ppt file" and which caused you a problem, and my understanding that MS creates files with the *.pps extension. I am guessing that you are using OO to create *.ppt files which you then convert to *.pps to use in MS Powerpoint. My wife receives *.pps files from a friend oversea and I have looked at them last night using OO v3 and converted them backwards and forwards between *.ppt and *.pps and have had no hassles with either conversions or reading them. But as I said, I do not use *.ppt/*.pps files in anything I do on a daily basis. And to make sure that we are talking about apples and oranges, I am using 11.0, 32-bit version, with KDE4.1.x and the latest v3.0.x OO - all having been upgraded to the latest versions over the past few days (give or take a day or so -- I upgrade several times a day [if there are upgrades available]). Ciao. -- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 25 October 2008, Basil Chupin wrote:
Bernie Gardner wrote:
On Friday 24 October 2008, Basil Chupin wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote: . .. .
I have been using OpenOffice 2.4.1 Impress to edit powerpoint files. It had worked well until recently when a particular existing ppt file caused it to crash. The automatic recovery didn't work. So I installed the 3.0 version from the Suse repository. It opened the file ok, but I quickly found that if I used anything other than the default, plain background master slide, it would not save as a powerpoint file. Since I need them to be useable in MS Office, that was not acceptable. As an experiment, I removed the OpenSuse version of OpenOffice and installed the version from the OpenOffice site. This installed into my root directory, and seems to work ok. I can save powerpoint files with no problem. The same file occasionally causes OO to crash, but the automatic recovery works, and even provides a useful reporting option. So the question is, why an Opensuse branded version which doesn't work when the OpenOffice version works just fine. The only thing I get with the Suse version is automatic entries in the KDE menu, but I can change those links myself!
Cannot comment on anything you mention about editing powerpoint files because I do not use powerpoint for anything.
You don't make it clear (above) which you are referring to when you mention "powerpoint file" - are you talking about what OO produces or what MS produces?
However, I can express a query about your use of "a particular existing ppt file" and which caused you a problem, and my understanding that MS creates files with the *.pps extension. I am guessing that you are using OO to create *.ppt files which you then convert to *.pps to use in MS Powerpoint.
My wife receives *.pps files from a friend oversea and I have looked at them last night using OO v3 and converted them backwards and forwards between *.ppt and *.pps and have had no hassles with either conversions or reading them. But as I said, I do not use *.ppt/*.pps files in anything I do on a daily basis.
And to make sure that we are talking about apples and oranges, I am using 11.0, 32-bit version, with KDE4.1.x and the latest v3.0.x OO - all having been upgraded to the latest versions over the past few days (give or take a day or so -- I upgrade several times a day [if there are upgrades available]).
Ciao.
-- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse.
The powerpoint file was originally created in MS Office 2003, and is .ppt not .pps. The operating system is fully updated suse 11.0 64 bit, kde 3.59. I'm still using the Sun version of Openoffice 3.0 with no problems. The recovered file works fine. It just seemed odd that the Suse version behaved differently. I'll file a bug report with the OpenSuse site. I didn't have time yesterday, just needed to get on with working with the file. I can understand an occasional problem with importing certain non OO files. The bigger bug is not being able to save a file with any non-plain background as .ppt files. This was the case even for a newly created (in Openoffice) simple, one slide file, not just the imported powerpoint file. Thanks for the comments! Bernie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Anton Aylward
My autoupdate has installed 3.0 and its a bomb.
I tried opening some files I was working on last week with 2.4 and it crashed.
Restarting causes a recovery, that then crashes.
Trying to open without a document causes the recovery of the old document to run ... and then a crash.
Updates seem to be daily, but this is distressing in the mean time. Definitely a work-stopper!
I had the same issue with the 2.x version from the OBS repository, when I went back to the SUSE version the crashing stopped. So I don't think it is OpenOffice, just a poor repository. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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