LibreOffice Manager (lomanager)

[exploder]

Impressive!  Thank you!

[melodie]

Again an update ? That's hell ! (joking ! )

[DeBaas]

Update LibreOffice went flawless.
The lomanager is outstanding

Still no landscape printing
But hey, an export to PDF and autorotating in Acrobat Reader does the trick

[chrisretusn]

Just installed PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.6, the install went perfectly as expected. This of course is not about installing PCLinuxOS.

The first thing I did after installing was do an update using Synaptic Package Manager. That went well also, can't remember the number of packages, but it wasn't huge.

Next I clicked on the LibreOffice Manager (3.4-1pclos2011) icon on the desktop. All went well until the installing Java part came up. It came up several times and then quit, with a pop-up telling me the installation was cancelled. Sigh.... this has happened before, it's almost like it's making several attempts at getting a connection. I restarted LibreOffice Manager three times, with a bit of a wait between attempts. At this point I am considering installing Java using Synaptic Package Manager. Found a task for it anyway. Then decided to give LibreOffice Manager one more try... Well this time it must have connected because Java started to download at a respectable clip, it then finished and installed.

Then comes the LibreOffice install part.....

[break] I've been here, done that, before... Last time I installed it took several attempts across several days, in this case the download of the files started, at a very, very, very low baud rate and then after downloading for a while just quit. Some times with a popup informing me it was cancelled. Some time nothing. Eventually it installed. Sigh.... [/break]

Well this time after the download bar flashed a few times I got a popup referring me this thread, specifically to Important notes: 1b in this thread. It's in the top post. It took me a few minutes to figure out it was this thread in Tips and Tricks. I also tried one more time before looking for this thread, no joy.

Well anyway I downloaded the tarball, extracted it and installed it, per the instruction given in the step. It worked perfectly as expected and LibreOffice is now installed; it works too.

Why did I have to resort of a manual download and installation of LIbreOffice? For someone like me this is cake walk, but I can imagine the frustration of someone new to Linux or even an experienced user giving PCLinxOS a test run. In the later case, I can see that person moving on and missing out on experiencing the outstanding product that PCLinuxOS is. Truth be told, only reason I stuck with it is I have a boat load of patience and I have good experiences with PCLinuxOS.

Anyway a little bit of a rant, and to say that alternate method work just fine.

[Bald Brick]

Just installed PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.6, the install went perfectly as expected. This of course is not about installing PCLinuxOS.

The first thing I did after installing was do an update using Synaptic Package Manager. That went well also, can't remember the number of packages, but it wasn't huge.

Next I clicked on the LibreOffice Manager (3.4-1pclos2011) icon on the desktop. All went well until the installing Java part came up. It came up several times and then quit, with a pop-up telling me the installation was cancelled. Sigh.... this has happened before, it's almost like it's making several attempts at getting a connection. I restarted LibreOffice Manager three times, with a bit of a wait between attempts. At this point I am considering installing Java using Synaptic Package Manager. Found a task for it anyway. Then decided to give LibreOffice Manager one more try... Well this time it must have connected because Java started to download at a respectable clip, it then finished and installed.

Then comes the LibreOffice install part.....

[break] I've been here, done that, before... Last time I installed it took several attempts across several days, in this case the download of the files started, at a very, very, very low baud rate and then after downloading for a while just quit. Some times with a popup informing me it was cancelled. Some time nothing. Eventually it installed. Sigh.... [/break]

Well this time after the download bar flashed a few times I got a popup referring me this thread, specifically to Important notes: 1b in this thread. It's in the top post. It took me a few minutes to figure out it was this thread in Tips and Tricks. I also tried one more time before looking for this thread, no joy.

Well anyway I downloaded the tarball, extracted it and installed it, per the instruction given in the step. It worked perfectly as expected and LibreOffice is now installed; it works too.

Why did I have to resort of a manual download and installation of LIbreOffice? For someone like me this is cake walk, but I can imagine the frustration of someone new to Linux or even an experienced user giving PCLinxOS a test run. In the later case, I can see that person moving on and missing out on experiencing the outstanding product that PCLinuxOS is. Truth be told, only reason I stuck with it is I have a boat load of patience and I have good experiences with PCLinuxOS.

Anyway a little bit of a rant, and to say that alternate method work just fine.

It seems to me that some people having difficulties using lomanager simply have a bad connection to download.documentfoundation.org. Or the LibreOffice server could be down temporarily. If so, I don't think you can blame PCLinuxOS or the LibreOffice Manager -- particularly when you consider that pinoc has provided detailed instructions for what to do when lomanager fails to work as it should. Usually it works beautifully if you just remember to run the newest version (which you obviously did).

[johnmart]

I have had mixed success installing LO lately, but I also came to the conclusion it was due to a busy server at the source. It works when d/l rates are 100k+. Usually it fails with low speeds.

But, I thought the link to the manual install option was a master stroke from <genius>pinoc<genius/> 

[longtom]

Since I have a slow, African connection that might be the problem.  However, I do hope LO get their act together so slow connection can access it .

However - the offline option works wonderfully well and I thank pinoc for his efforts!!

[chrisretusn]

It seems to me that some people having difficulties using lomanager simply have a bad connection to download.documentfoundation.org. Or the LibreOffice server could be down temporarily. If so, I don't think you can blame PCLinuxOS or the LibreOffice Manager -- particularly when you consider that pinoc has provided detailed instructions for what to do when lomanager fails to work as it should. Usually it works beautifully if you just remember to run the newest version (which you obviously did).

That very well maybe the case, that still doesn't ease the frustration factor. Not that long (a few months) ago, the LibreOffice install went just fine. The last few installs I've done have all had some sort of problem downloading. I just tried it again on one of my laptop installs and was once again directed to the 1b in the first post, yet I can go to download.documentfoundation.org and download it in less than four minutes.

[pinoc]

lomanager3.4.3-3 coming to your repo soon, changes:
- fixed incomplete Java-setup
- added fallback download option via wget if the default axel download fails
- updated translations
- new: automatic update to latest lomanager if the current one is outdated

This bugfix release should finally fix the download problems some of you have encountered. In addition, I changed the version tester to automatically update an outdated lomanager. This to ensure that
1) you can not run an outdated lomanager, which would try to install an old LO-version and then not find it  
2) you will always have the newest lomanager version installed, even if that version was not yet mirrored to your repo specified in Synaptic  

have a good one,
-p.

Edit: the default download still is via axel; Only if axel fails the fallback download option via wget is invoked, and if that fails as well you will get the message to use the OfflineInstaller.  If the initial axel download has issues then there will be 4 additional retries before trying the alternative wget-download option. That means that you may see 5 windows flashing up before the wget-download jumps in. The same can happen for the Java-download. Seeing these windows flashing up is normal and not a bug. 

[TerryN]

This bugfix release should finally fix the download problems some of you have encountered. In addition, I changed the version tester to automatically update an outdated lomanager. This to ensure that
1) you can not run an outdated lomanager, which would try to install an old LO-version and then not find it 
2) you will always have the newest lomanager version installed, even if that version was not yet mirrored to your repo specified in Synaptic 

That's brilliant!
Thank-you once again Pinoc for all the work you do on this.

[pinoc]

Thank-you once again Pinoc for all the work you do on this.

Thank you! But you know, the more stable lomanager the less work for me to look after it... 
-p.

[djohnston]

This bugfix release should finally fix the download problems some of you have encountered. In addition, I changed the version tester to automatically update an outdated lomanager. This to ensure that
1) you can not run an outdated lomanager, which would try to install an old LO-version and then not find it 
2) you will always have the newest lomanager version installed, even if that version was not yet mirrored to your repo specified in Synaptic 

That's brilliant!
Thank-you once again Pinoc for all the work you do on this.

+1

[melodie]

This bugfix release should finally fix the download problems some of you have encountered. In addition, I changed the version tester to automatically update an outdated lomanager. This to ensure that
1) you can not run an outdated lomanager, which would try to install an old LO-version and then not find it 
2) you will always have the newest lomanager version installed, even if that version was not yet mirrored to your repo specified in Synaptic 

That's brilliant!
Thank-you once again Pinoc for all the work you do on this.

+1

Great ! We are on the way to have the perfect script ! Thanks a lot again for all this work ! \o/ !

[pinoc]

Great ! We are on the way to have the perfect script !

Oh yes we are... 
lomanager 3.4.3-4 is on its way to your repo, change:
- all axel commands were replaced with wget
- all translations updated, esp. cyrillic languages
- automatic update routine now works properly on 32 and 64bit

I added axel to increase the download-speed especially for those on slow connections. While that always worked fine for me it seemed to be flaky or not working at all for a few others. For some of them the same axel command which failed in lomanager did work from the cmd-line, sometimes and sometimes not. I have no idea what causes all this nonsense and I am sick of doing all kind of debugging because I want to work on other things which are more important and interesting than installing LO into the system. So here you go, 3.4.3-4 is feature complete, I will not add anything new in there but only update it to work with newer LO-versions. And if the wget-download is too slow for you then just sit down and   w a i t , get a coffee, bacon-sandwich, or the OfflineInstaller.
-p.

[melodie]

or get a house in a place with a larger bandwidth.

+10 !

Thanks pinoc !