LibreOffice Manager (lomanager)

[Neal ManBear]

mikkl,
I believe OOo is going to need more than 700 MB.

[pinoc]

On my eeepc, GOO states that I have insufficient file space, even though I have /var/apt/cache mapped to my ~/home partition.  I have 700Mb of space availabe, so OOo should be able to install correctly.  Is there a way to trick GOO into still permitting the download?

TIA,

mikkl

700 MB is not enough space. you need to keep the downloaded files and have them extracted during the installation, all that requires more than 800MB at some point. You can try anyway, just search the script where it complains and comment out that part.
regards,
-p.

[mikkl]

Guess I was not clear. I have mapped my synaptic doenload location to a drive with more than 10gb of space so there is plenty of room to download and expand the install files. Iy seems that goo is assuming that the expansion partion is /. What I am suggesting is that this is not always a valid assumption.
I will try commenting out the pertinent code and will see what happens.

mikkl

[pinoc]

Guess I was not clear. I have mapped my synaptic doenload location to a drive with more than 10gb of space so there is plenty of room to download and expand the install files. Iy seems that goo is assuming that the expansion partion is /. What I am suggesting is that this is not always a valid assumption.
I will try commenting out the pertinent code and will see what happens.

mikkl

mikki,
yes, the partition "/" is checked for free space because the packages are downloaded via apt and therefore will go into /var/cache/apt/archives/. Some people seem to think that wget is used but this is not the case, wget is only used to test for the Internet connection but apt is used to download the packages. A suggestion could be that you apply Important Notes Step 1 outlined in the original post.
regards,
-p.

[mikkl]

pinoc,

I understand this quite well.  My point is that on my machine /var/cache/apt/archives/ is a symlink to a folder on a different partition; a partition that has plenty of space for downloads and the expansion thereof.  My original request was whether or not it is possible to have the script check for space on the actual partition where /var/cache/apt/archives/ is located.

mikkl

[pinoc]

pinoc,

I understand this quite well.  My point is that on my machine /var/cache/apt/archives/ is a symlink to a folder on a different partition; a partition that has plenty of space for downloads and the expansion thereof.  My original request was whether or not it is possible to have the script check for space on the actual partition where /var/cache/apt/archives/ is located.

mikkl

hi mikki,
the command in GOO to check for the available disk space is:

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FREE=`df -k |grep "/$" |awk '{print$4}'` and apparently this does not follow symbolic links. If you find a command to get the available disk space in a directory, even if it is a link then let me know about it. Don't quite know how to achieve that, maybe a combination of df and du, need to search the net to see if I find something, but have very little time right now.
regards,
-p.

[mikkl]

I will see what I can find.  Thanks for pointing me to the correct part of the script!

Good luck with your busyness!  I have a son graduating from high school in two weeks and well understand being busy 

mikkl

[anlem]

I noticed that almost year ago there was some discussion about Voikko spellchecker and how it didn't work with OpenOffice in PCLinuxOS. Now I would like to know has there been any progress in that matter? I just installed OO to my wife's laptop which runs PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4. Installation was ok and everything seems to work flawlessly. Except Voikko. When I write something and go to Tools > Spellchecking to make sure my writing is okay, it just tell me that spellchecking is ready. It doesn't underline misspelled words or even give any suggestions. None of those things happen with Abiword. There Voikko works just as it should be. That's why I would like to know if this is perhaps some kind of compatibility issue between OO, Voikko and PCLinuxOS? With Ubuntu I have never had such problems.
I would be grateful if some other Finnish PCLinuxOS forum members would share their experiences with this issue. Any help would be welcome. I also enclose screenshot one of my OpenOffice spellchecking attempts to show where the problem is.

[pinoc]

I noticed that almost year ago there was some discussion about Voikko spellchecker and how it didn't work with OpenOffice in PCLinuxOS. Now I would like to know has there been any progress in that matter? I just installed OO to my wife's laptop which runs PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4. Installation was ok and everything seems to work flawlessly. Except Voikko. When I write something and go to Tools > Spellchecking to make sure my writing is okay, it just tell me that spellchecking is ready. It doesn't underline misspelled words or even give any suggestions. None of those things happen with Abiword. There Voikko works just as it should be. That's why I would like to know if this is perhaps some kind of compatibility issue between OO, Voikko and PCLinuxOS? With Ubuntu I have never had such problems.
I would be grateful if some other Finnish PCLinuxOS forum members would share their experiences with this issue. Any help would be welcome. I also enclose screenshot one of my OpenOffice spellchecking attempts to show where the problem is.

Hi anlem,

don't think there is any progress wrt Voikko. As outlined during the OO-installation, spellchecking for any non-English OO-locale is done by installing the respective separate OO spell-checker, for Finnish this would be here. Did you try that already?
regards,
-p.

[anlem]

Well, I didn't have to install any separate OO spell-checker for Finnish because Voikko was automatically installed when I used add locale. These packages are installed into my system: libvoikko1, tmispell-voikko, voikko.fi

And like I said, it works flawlessly with Abiword. I also checked your link, but it just tell this: "Finnish spell checker and hyphenator for OpenOffice.org. The extension is available for Windows (XP and Vista) and Mac OS X (10.5/Intel). OpenOffice.org 3.0 or later is supported on both platforms, OpenOffice.org 2.4 on Windows only. Linux users may use the packages provided by their distribution (these are available at least for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Mandriva)".

[pinoc]

There have always been issues with voikko and OO, don't know what the problem is. Even if the OO-site says the spell-checker is Windows/Mac only I would still try it out in Linux, maybe this info is outdated and you can only win. Other than that, no idea what else to try, sorry.
-p.

[travisN000]

And like I said, it works flawlessly with Abiword. I also checked your link, but it just tell this:

"Finnish spell checker and hyphenator for OpenOffice.org... Linux users may use the packages provided by their distribution (these are available at least for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Mandriva)".

The Mandriva RPM & SRPM is here:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/13556390/dir/mandrake_other/com/voikko-fi-1.5-1mdv2010.1.i586.rpm.html

..my guess is that it would probably work in PCLinuxOS, and if not the SRPM could be re-built for PCLinuxOS;  It might be worth putting in a package request (..I might have time to package it in the morning, but as an english only user, I don't know that I would be very effective in testing it!  )

[anlem]

That sounds interesting. If I will install this voikko-fi-1.5-1mdv2010.1.i586.rpm, does it mean that I should first uninstall those Voikko packages already exist in my system? And what's more important, could you tell me how do I install .rpm packages in PCLinuxOS? I come from the ubuntu world where right-clicking .deb files was all you had to do..

[travisN000]

Wait a little while..  I will see if I can rebuild them for pclinuxos, and maybe even track down a few testers.

[anlem]

That would be great! My wife is Estonian so her written Finnish is usually quite awful and she definetely would need working spell-checker