LibreOffice Manager (lomanager)

[Archie]

Hi pinoc,

I'd like to bring to your attention a possible issue that may arise from the update of 3.3 to 3.4. I still have a machine fully updated KDE and had LO 3.3 that I updated to the latest 3.4.x a couple of days ago. Today I was going to do some work on some docs and clicked on one and nothing happened.

I found out that certain files associated with LO which were supposedly open with 3.4 are still associated to the removed 3.3. I had to investigate all office file extensions and manually remove every LibreOffice app 3.3 and move up 3.4 on its place. All should be well with my file associations but I'm afraid there might be others with the same problem. I have never had this issue before.

Below is a screenshot.



It might be worth investigating.

Regards.
Archie

[pinoc]

Hi Archie,
completely removed 3.4.1. Installed 3.3.2, opened LO and checked file-assoc showing LO3.3, all ok.  Then ran lomanager and updated to 3.4.1, start LO to see it is 3.4.1, file assoc are for 3.4.1, and I do not have any old file association for 3.3, hmm working fine here.
I will do lomanager 3.4.1-3 with increased minimum space requirements for LO-installation and add file-tests for all LO-locales. Maybe that will catch whatever problems people have.
-p.

[Archie]

That's good to know ... I hope mine was just a unique occurrence. Thanks.

[exploder]

Archie, I just looked at my file associations and they are set for 3.4.1. Hopefully, yours was a unique occurrence but I sure am glad that you discovered this. This was definitely worth checking out just in case anyone else is effected by this and it looks easy enough to fix the problem if someone sees this too.    

Edit: By sheer luck I came across this in a discussion on another forum.

I was trying to do the libreoffice as well. It is not the scipts problem though. The script downloads from the Document Foundation, so I got the link from the script and tried to direct download and it still failed. It appears their server was dying or getting hammered at the time. My download would start and go very slow......until it gave up

Today I it downloaded quickly, it appears the document foundation is back up.

I thought I should post this because it might have been why some people were having problems.

[chicoicho]

This lomanager have problem.Tree times started this manager ,and download to 70 % ,and give my error.After 2 hour finally install this. ::)And no installation progress bar(I did not know whether to install).Amazing.

[Texstar]

This lomanager have problem.Tree times started this manager ,and download to 70 % ,and give my error.After 2 hour finally install this. ::)And no installation progress bar(I did not know whether to install).Amazing.

Have you done this?

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,93667.0.html

[longtom]

This lomanager have problem.Tree times started this manager ,and download to 70 % ,and give my error.After 2 hour finally install this. ::)And no installation progress bar(I did not know whether to install).Amazing.

What is amazing is that people come here with an "I want all and I want it now" attitude but are not prepared to do the very basics, which is reading the announcements.  Amazing indeed ....

[sling-shot]

Hi pinoc,
- I have observed that LOManager makes internet access compulsory to run. But the problem is that its definition of internet access is somehow different from that of Firefox or any other program.
- I have had occasions in the past where LOManager said there is no internet access while Firefox and wget were happily downloading. It refuses to proceed beyond this point.
- I am unable to offer further information about why this happens. I use a DSL 2 Mbps connection with DHCP. I have PCLinuxOS 2010.10 fully updated.
- What if LOManager is allowed to skip the internet check or allowed to proceed with a warning that internet may not be reachable?
-SS.

[pinoc]

What if LOManager is allowed to skip the internet check or allowed to proceed with a warning that internet may not be reachable?

that doesn't make any sense because the LO-packages must be downloaded from the LO-servers.
btw, you can uninstall LO without Internet connection. The Internet-test is only performed when downloading is required.

AND after quite some coding some good news:
- the long-awaited progress-bar while installing LO is now working, so you guys can see how things proceed instead of thinking that lomanager has stopped working
- you can no longer press the "Close" button and then end up with a corrupted installation  ,
- lomanager should now also work when using a proxy-server,
- if you do anything you are not supposed to do (changing the script, using illicit cmd-line options, etc) you will be forced to read this thread 
more soon,
-p.

[longtom]

Thank you, Pinoc, for all your hard work!!  This is most appreciated  !!

[tschommer]

Thank you, Pinoc, for all your hard work!!  This is most appreciated  !!

Absolutely!

[Neal ManBear]

Thank you, Pinoc, for all your hard work!!  This is most appreciated  !!

Absolutely!

+1!

[pinoc]

lomanager 3.4.1-6 in your repo soon, changes:
- fixed opening of web-pages
- added command-line options
- improved gksu/kdesu call to lomanager
- added test for lomanager uptodates (especially useful on a liveCD)
- updated translations
- proxy-server support
- progress-bars all over the place...

If you already have LO3.4.1 running then you do not need to run this update again.
-p.

[melodie]

Stumbling upon it... now !

Thank you many times pinoc. You scripts are a wonder !

[djohnston]

AND after quite some coding some good news:
- the long-awaited progress-bar while installing LO is now working, so you guys can see how things proceed instead of thinking that lomanager has stopped working
- you can no longer press the "Close" button and then end up with a corrupted installation  ,
- lomanager should now also work when using a proxy-server,

Thanks, pinoc. This is very welcome news!

- progress-bars all over the place...

The full monty!