LibreOffice Manager (lomanager)

[DeBaas]

I had a few downloads, including the manual installer.
In the waiting time I tried lomanager again and by ... it succeeded.

The only strange thing (not lomanager related) LibreOffice is working perfect as root.
As user it's complaining about templates already pressent.
I'm not the only one with this prob, it's also on other distro's,

For now I think I go back to ver. 3.4.5 (for a while), made me an install map with all needed extra's, it's done in two minutes.

Later
Ed

[Bald Brick]

DeBaas,

what the heck is that??? Now this refreshes some old memories.... Can you please try to
1) reboot, then run that again and see if you still get this weirdo error about /root/.kde4/tmp-K7-2400
2) if so, or even if not, then please edit /usr/bin/lomanager and exchange the lines 123 and 124, save the file and run lomanager again, let's see what that does.

please let me know what happens,
-p.

"exchange the lines 123 and 124": perfectly worked for me (did a german install)  
Thank you pinoc!
harry

that will prefer gksu over kdesu when launching lomanager, in case there is something wrong on a KDE-install but it has no effect for the download problem. Most likely your installation would work equally well without exchanging these lines.
Anyway, there is still the offline installer but I really would like to understand the source of this weirdness..  
-p.

Swapping the lines solved the problem here too.

Was it DeBaas' error messages about "/root/.kde4/tmp-K7-2400" and "/root/.kde4/socket-K7-2400" that made you suspect it was KDE-related? (I thought they were red herrings as I didn't get any similar error messages about the links created by lnusertemp pointing to the wrong target. But of course those two links are only needed if you run KDE. The last time I ran lomanager from a terminal I did so from a login shell, and then I got a number of new  complaints from kbuildsycoca4, all concerning different entries in .desktop files missing trailing semicolons, which might also make one suspect the KDE setup.)

[pinoc]

I had a few downloads, including the manual istaller.
In the waiting time I tried lomanager again and by ... it succeeded.

The only strange thing (not lomanager related) LibreOffice is working perfect as root.
As user it's complaining about templates already pressent.
I'm not the only one with this prob, it's also on other distro's,

For now I think I go back to ver. 3.4.5 (for a while), made me an install map with all needed extra's, it's done in two minutes.

Later
Ed

Ed,
wrt the templates, since 3.5 there seems to be no more ~/.libreoffice folder. Maybe we better wait for 3.5.1 out in 2 weeks from now. Then I will revert to preferring gksu over kdesu.

Bald Brick,
the complaints about kbuildsycoca are harmless and happen for all kind of progs, some desktop files need to be updated to be compliant with the new desktop-file-utils package, nothing to worry about.

still, this download issue is not clear to me... 
-p.
 

[DeBaas]

~/.libreoffice
is now in
~/.config/libreoffice
And my template problem is solved
     renamed ~/.libreoffice and ~/.config/libreoffice
     and started libreoffice again.
     copied templates in the now new ~/.config/libreoffice
And I'm happy again, I think there was a wrong rw permission somewhere.
After all this fiddling I cannot reproduce the error annymore.

Tried 3 times, with LXDE on Celeron800 and 3 times with KDE on Q6600, installed new LibreOffice with the changed lomanager without errors
So on my box, version 3.5 it is.

CU
Ed

[pinoc]

~/.libreoffice
is now in
~/.config/libreoffice
And my template problem is solved
     renamed ~/.libreoffice and ~/.config/libreoffice
     and started libreoffice again.
     copied templates in the now new ~/.config/libreoffice
And I'm happy again, I think there was a wrong rw permission somewhere.
After all this fiddling I cannot reproduce the error annymore.

Tried 3 times, with LXDE on Celeron800 and 3 times with KDE on Q6600, installed new LibreOffice with the changed lomanager without errors
So on my box, version 3.5 it is.

CU
Ed

you mean, preferring gksu over kdesu (line swap 123/124) solved your issues? Then I will set that and verify the ~/.config/libreoffice is dealt with appropriately, and do a lomanager3.5.0-2, once this flipping thunderbird10.0.2 has finished compiling (1 hour, crazy)...
thanks to all for the help and testing!
-p.

[huberh]

DeBaas,

what the heck is that??? Now this refreshes some old memories.... Can you please try to
1) reboot, then run that again and see if you still get this weirdo error about /root/.kde4/tmp-K7-2400
2) if so, or even if not, then please edit /usr/bin/lomanager and exchange the lines 123 and 124, save the file and run lomanager again, let's see what that does.

please let me know what happens,
-p.

"exchange the lines 123 and 124": perfectly worked for me (did a german install) 
Thank you pinoc!
harry

that will prefer gksu over kdesu when launching lomanager, in case there is something wrong on a KDE-install but it has no effect for the download problem. Most likely your installation would work equally well without exchanging these lines.
Anyway, there is still the offline installer but I really would like to understand the source of this weirdness.. 
-p.

Just verified on a second machine updating LO from 3.4.5 to 3.5 (german).
Again I had the same download problem, after swapping the two lines lomanager worked perfect!
Both installs are 2011.09 kde 32 bit, 1st is Notebook, 2nd Desktop.
 

[Bernd]

Unfortunately this trick doesn´t work on the 64bit test kde iso (pclinuxos64-test04) 
45 Pages with Lomanager Issues so far  . I didn´t go through all of the pages but wouldn´t it be better to build rpm packages an add them for apt / synaptic ? And all this hassle and all the time you spend with lomanager, Pinoc  This is really a hard job !!
Bernd

[pags]

Unfortunately this trick doesn´t work on the 64bit test kde iso (pclinuxos64-test04) 
45 Pages with Lomanager Issues so far  . I didn´t go through all of the pages but wouldn´t it be better to build rpm packages an add them for apt / synaptic ? And all this hassle and all the time you spend with lomanager, Pinoc  This is really a hard job !!
Bernd

They are not all issues.  They are not even all for this one version (3.5).  Many of these are announcements of updates, etc., as well as assistance, troubleshooting...

The files are BIG, so they would take up repo space, and they would be the same, regardless (so no direct benefit to hosting)...

Pinoc has done an amazing job maintaining this.  even though there are some hiccups (I've installed it on 4 32-bit systems without issue), there are probably more successes than failures.  People rarely come back and complain that nothing went wrong!
 

[melodie]

Ok, I have to make an exception : why am I the only one who didn't have any problem ?

In fact : it seems to me. But for instance I don't use templates, I mostly use the suite in a very basic way.

pinoc, thanks for this new update ! Great job. (Even if you meet with some enhancements to bring...   )

[racuna]

After reboot and running lomanager with my user, using su and using su - I get the same error:



the log file:

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--2012-02-17 17:00:58--  http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.5.0/rpm/x86/LibO_3.5.0_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
Resolving download.documentfoundation.org (download.documentfoundation.org)... 178.63.91.70
Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org (download.documentfoundation.org)|178.63.91.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/tdf/libreoffice/stable/3.5.0/rpm/x86/LibO_3.5.0_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz [following]
--2012-02-17 17:00:59--  http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/tdf/libreoffice/stable/3.5.0/rpm/x86/LibO_3.5.0_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
Resolving ftp.osuosl.org (ftp.osuosl.org)... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.233.100
Connecting to ftp.osuosl.org (ftp.osuosl.org)|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 156924909 (150M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `LibO_3.5.0_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz'

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0%  128K 19m58s
    50K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0%  238K 15m20s
   100K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0%  244K 13m42s

...blah blah blah... 

103850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 67%  880K 65s
103900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 67%  775K 65s
103950K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 67%  742K 65s
104000K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 67%  346K 65s
104050K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 67%  912K 65s
104100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 67%  903K 65s
104150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 67% 1,41M 65s
104200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 68% 1001K 65s
104250K .


[DeBaas]

@racuna
You tried this?
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,59009.msg876203.html#msg876203

[racuna]

WOAH! thank you. That works, now i have LibreOffice 3.5

Thank you very much.

[pinoc]

WOAH! thank you. That works, now i have LibreOffice 3.5

Thank you very much.

thanks for the info. Lomanager3.5.0-2 uploading to dropbox, should be in your repo by tomorrow.
Changes:
- reverted to prefer gksu over kdesu
- changed default mirror for java download to increase download speed

ok, hope that's it now, next version 3.5.1 in 2 weeks from now,
-p.

[djohnston]

Pinoc has done an amazing job maintaining this.  even though there are some hiccups (I've installed it on 4 32-bit systems without issue), there are probably more successes than failures.  People rarely come back and complain that nothing went wrong!
 

+1 Pinoc has done an amazing job. I had no problems updating ... once the lomanager package finally reached my repo.

[pinoc]

thanks for the +. Trust me, I'm all interested in providing a robust and working script because I then do not have to deal with any issues and instead can concentrate on other things which need to be done or developed, and there is lots of things to do. I tested the current version on 5 different setups without issues before uploading it. Now I'm most puzzled, and try to understand why the script works when invoked with gksu while the download crashes at 67% when the script is invoked with kdesu, plus the same cmd works just fine from the terminal, all that makes no sense at all. Really curious to find out what is going on there, too strange...
-p.