LibreOffice Manager (lomanager)

[pinoc]

Hi Dave,

can you please let me know:
1) does your Internet connection work, or can you browse the Internet ?
2) since you updated everything you use GOO version 1.0 in KDE 3, KDE 4, Gnome, XFCE?
3) did you run 'getopenoffice' in a konsole in the root account, or from a root konsole in your user account?
4) don't rename /var/cache/apt/archives/partial that is a very bad idea...

Please try the following steps in the given sequence and let me know how this works:
First of all, please logout of your current session and login to a new session, I assume your Internet connection is working, then:
a) in your user account, open a konsole and enter:

Code:

xhost +; kdesu getopenoffice

you should now get the GOO window to select the locale. After the installation has finished enter:

Code:

xhost -

b) if the previous step did not work and if you can access freebsd with firefox then you should be able to install OO via Synaptic. Most likely the Synaptic configuration for this entry is not correct. Try this:
- remove your previous OO-repo configuration in Synaptic and make sure Synaptic is closed.
- open a konsole and become root using the command:

Code:

su -

- copy/paste and enter this command:

Code:

echo "rpm ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/pub/os/Linux/distr/texstar/openoffice/apt/ pclinuxos/2009 openoffice" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

- exit the konsole
- open Synaptic, press Reload, press Search and look for "task-openoffice3" and then select your OO locale. When done, de-select the OO-repo in Synaptic.
c) wait 1/2 days for the new version GOO 1.1 (should not be necessary as a) or b) should do the trick)

let me know how things go,
-p.

[daveleh]

Hi Dave,

Hi Pinoc, thanks for answering.

can you please let me know:
1) does your Internet connection work, or can you browse the Internet ?

Yep that's all working fine

2) since you updated everything you use GOO version 1.0 in KDE 3, KDE 4, Gnome, XFCE?

GOO v1.0-1 in KDE3.5.10

3) did you run 'getopenoffice' in a konsole in the root account, or from a root konsole in your user account?

As root in a konsole in my account. I also tried kdesu getopenoffice as normal user and got the same result as from the kmenu

4) don't rename /var/cache/apt/archives/partial that is a very bad idea...

OK, thanks for that. 

Please try the following steps in the given sequence and let me know how this works:
First of all, please logout of your current session and login to a new session, I assume your Internet connection is working, then:
a) in your user account, open a konsole and enter:

Code:

xhost +; kdesu getopenoffice

you should now get the GOO window to select the locale. After the installation has finished enter:

Code:

xhost -

OK - tried that. got the same small window open - this time was able to read it properly. It says 'testing your internet connection', then it closes. Nothing else

b) if the previous step did not work and if you can access freebsd with firefox then you should be able to install OO via Synaptic. Most likely the Synaptic configuration for this entry is not correct. Try this:
- remove your previous OO-repo configuration in Synaptic and make sure Synaptic is closed.
- open a konsole and become root using the command:

Code:

su -

- copy/paste and enter this command:

Code:

echo "rpm ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/pub/os/Linux/distr/texstar/openoffice/apt/ pclinuxos/2009 openoffice" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

- exit the konsole
- open Synaptic, press Reload, press Search and look for "task-openoffice3" and then select your OO locale. When done, de-select the OO-repo in Synaptic.

nope. Package information fails to load from the ftp site. It would seem that neither GOO nor synaptic can access this site even though synaptic can access other repositories.

c) wait 1/2 days for the new version GOO 1.1 (should not be necessary as a) or b) should do the trick)

let me know how things go,
-p.

Looks like I'll have to wait for the next version.

Thanks again for your help

Regards

[musonio]

I downloaded Sproggy's beautiful Phoenix.
I installed it on a virtual machine. I wanted to make a remaster of it for myself with OpenOffice.
I executed GetOpenOffice.
1st try) Immediately after executing it, I got a call from work, I realized I wouldn't have time to wait for the whole process, pressed cancel. I got the pop-up saying that OO was installed in my system under Start->Office.
2nd try) I run the script again. Went for a cup of coffee. When I returned, 3 minutes later, I got the pop-up saying that OO was installed in my system under Start->Office. I assumed that wasn't possible.
3rd try) Same as 2.
4th try) Success.

My point is just that the script does not seem to notice problems such as incomplete downloads or the user's cancelling the execution, and it is nevertheless delivering the success window.
Just a detail to polish.
(I'm sorry if the problem has already been addressed. I couldn't find it in this 5 page post)

[daveleh]

Well would you believe it 

I just tried GOO again and was getting the same problems and I wondered if synaptic/apt was having problems accessing ftp links so I deleted my pass server sources.list (i'll reinstall it later) and reset synaptic to the default list. I then went to several http and ftp repositories and all worked ok. So..... I tried GOO again as I said at the beginning and gave up (with synaptic still set to the default repos list).

About 15 mins later up popped GOO's locale window, so I selected Uk English, clicked next and bingo OpenOffice is now downloading. 

I have no idea why that is but right now there's approx 33 mins left for the download to complete.

Regards

[pinoc]

@daveleh,
yes, I do believe it. I already suspected you had some repo access problem and my next guess would have been to run 'apt-get install task-openoffice3-en-US' from the cmd-line to see what happens there. Despite of that I have no clue why the GOO selection window would pop up after 15 mins, from the echo zenity to this window some tests are executed which normally should take 2 secs. And 33 mins for downloading is pretty long, let's hope your line does not fail and you get OO running.

good luck!

@Musonio:
in which window did you press Cancel? There should not be any problem. Instead, if you cancel any of the intermediate xterm windows then you abort a running process and the next command in the script will be executed regardless of what happened before. Obviously this can have strange results, it is equivalent to aborting a command: apt-get install XX which of course it not a good idea. I have already included some checks for incomplete downloads/installation and the new version has another important check to test for a running OO-application. When running GOO while an OO-application is active, the OO-config files are blocked and hence create problems for GOO. Then I will have to add another test if the repo can be accessed properly although the Internet works fine. So I will continue to try catching other kinds of potential issues but will probably never catch all of them   
But in the end it worked, that's not bad either 

best,
-p.

[musonio]

"But in the end it worked, that's not bad either" (don't know how to quote)
Of course it's not bad.
I never implied that it was anything less than an excellent script.
I just pointed out those details so that it can be improved in time.
I can't do anything but thank you and all the developers here.
I am just a grateful happy puppy.

[Neal ManBear]

Musonio,
Tips on quoting:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=58&topic=59742.0

[pinoc]

announcing GetOpenOffice 1.1

Changelog
======================
* updated to work with GO-OO version 3.1.1
* GOO will now test for and close any running OO-application before applying any changes
* updated German translation and added Spanish translation (thanks Musonio!)
* OO 3.1.0 can be updated to 3.1.1 (any other OO version can not be upgraded but will be removed)
* when removing OO completely, all previously additional OO info is removed as well

GOO 1.1 is currently shipping to the public mirrors and is already available on our premium server.

[daveleh]

I can't do anything but thank you and all the developers here.
I am just a grateful happy puppy.

Echo'd from here

Regards

[dj_bridges]

Am trying to update using the getopenoffice script (1.1), but the system can never find an active internet connection. I am guessing that this is due to the fact that all internet traffic comes through a proxy. Is there some way I can run the script with proxy settings. Failing that can I put the settings into the Control Center for the script to use (have been playing around with different configurations, but none work so far)?

Thanks in advance...

[pinoc]

Hi dj_bridges,

GOO needs an Internet connection to download the OO-rpms. For this reason the GOO script will initially test for an active connection by trying to access the Google homepage. If that fails, we assume that you do not have the required working Internet connection, you will get the 'no Internet connection' message, and the script terminates.

There are two options:
1) Your Internet connection works fine but GOO says you have no connection: please let me know more details of your network connection setup so I can rework the Internet connection test.
2) Your Internet connection does not work, for whatever reason: the message of GOO is correct. Ensure to  configure a working Internet connection. This case is independent of GOO and must be dealt with separately.

hope this clarifies the situation,
-pinoc

[dj_bridges]

pinoc - thanks for getting back to me.

I have a fully working internet connection, but it is at a University and everything has to go through one of two proxy servers. FOr example all web browser traffic goes through a proxy.pac file. To DL packages with synaptic I also have to specify a HTTP proxy setting. I have tried putting the proxy settings into the system wide settings in the control center, but they don't seem to redirect the traffic.

Not sure if any of that made sense (to be honest I don't really understand proxies), but hope that gives you an idea of what is happening.

[pinoc]

hmm, GOO needs to have a functional wget and apt-get. Make sure these programs work from a cmd-line and that you can install applications via Synaptic. Alternatively follow these steps to install OO.

good luck!
-p.

[dj_bridges]

I didn't realise the script uses wget (seems obvious now). Anyway I know how to use a proxy with wget. I have now run the script and everything works fine. For anyone else who wants to use a proxy for this script. Go to the CLI and type in the following (replace the example with your own details obviously):

Code:

export http_proxy="http://proxy.example.com:8080"

Then just run the getopenoffice script.......

Easy eh!

[pinoc]

brian_r,

GOO starts up in a graphical mode(either by using a console or from the menu), seems to  read some package lists, prompts me to push some buttons, and then it bombs and gives me the errors I listed before.  It seems to fail when it goes to try to actually download the packages.When I check synaptics I no longer see an install of Open Office in my package list (it was version (2-12).

I just tested GOO and it works perfectly fine. Which PCLinuxOS version do you use, if you had OO 2-12 before it must be PCLinuxOS 2007 (which is no longer supported) or even earlier??? Is this a fully updated and functional installation? If not, make sure it is.
Ensure to have a working Internet connection, (if you use a proxy setup then see the previous post), run the latest version of GOO (1.1) and provide details of your error. Alternatively you can try these steps.

Let me know,
-p.