LibreOffice Writer refuses to open

[sp4nn3rs]

Hello guys

I'm currently writing my master thesis and I thought it would be neat if I could get the reference manager Zotero to work on a word processor on my old Lenovo Ideapad, since it's the most portable computer I own.
Interestingly enough, installing Zotero and syncing it up to my previous library of referenced works went without a hitch.

However, I cannot get any version of LibreOffice Writer to work. I've managed to install LibreOffice Writers 4.4 and 6.2, but when I attempt to open a document, I get the opening dialogue box, but the loading bar loads to around half and then quits.

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Nothing happens after that.

Info about my computer:
CPU Type: Intel Atom N270, 1.60GHz
System Memory: 640 KB
Extended Memory: 2038 MB

I am running friendly-jammypup32-rc2.

I've tried deleting the ~/.config/libreoffice directory but this has not helped.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks :>

[darksun]

you could either launch libreoffice from terminal and paste here the terminal's output , or, you can download and launch the AppImage version and use that instead.

you can found it here

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/appimage/

[Jasper]

How did you install Libreoffice?

Do you have a .desktop file?

If so, open it up in a text editor and share the contents.

Also which Puppy build are you using?

How are using Zotero as a desktop application or via a browser?

[pp4mnklinux]

Hello guys

(...) @sp4nn3rs

Thanks :>

This appimage is ready to use in x64 puppies.

Simply download, extract and run APPRUN (click on it)

It works for me, I hope it works 4 u 2.

Cheers

Libre Office 7.0.4 X 86 64. App Image.tar https://archive.org/details/libre-offic ... -image.tar

[Wiz57]

Hello guys

(...) @sp4nn3rs

Thanks :>

This appimage is ready to use in x64 puppies.

Simply download, extract and run APPRUN (click on it)

It works for me, I hope it works 4 u 2.

Cheers

Libre Office 7.0.4 X 86 64. App Image.tar https://archive.org/details/libre-offic ... -image.tar

This won't work for the OP...they are running a 32 bit Puppy, and IIRC Intel Atom N270 CPUs are only 32 bit, I have one in my old Acer Aspire netbook.
They also are RAM starved...I suspect LibreOffice Writer is not loading because runs out of memory. Possible solution would be to setup a swap file...
SO, @sp4nn3rs , in a terminal, type "pupswap", press the Enter key...then setup at least a 1 gig swap file on your HD.
Then try running one of your Writer installs.
Wiz

[Trapster]

The 32bit 6 series portable from mikewalsh works well on my eeepc 1005ha with 1gb ram and 1 gb swap

viewtopic.php?t=5635

[sp4nn3rs]

Thank you everyone.
I was trying out your ideas and was having difficulties, but then I managed to install a version of LE Writer that works.
Specifically, I installed a version mentioned on a forum post, which you get a link to when you click "Get LibreOffice download" in the start menu of PuppyLinux:
viewtopic.php?f=96&p=2010#p2010

The version (7.3) I installed was listed under:
for ar de en_GB es fr it ja ko pt pt_BR ru zh_CN zh_TW, you get both a 32 and 64 bit sfs thanks to josejp2424: https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 246#p50246

I am now having problems related to the Java Runtime Environment, however.

LO Writer 7.3 does open, however it displays the error:

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In LO Writer under Tools>Options>Advanced and JRE it is shown that no version of JRE is present:

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I tried to install JRE from
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/l ... stall.html

where I downloaded the version meant for "Linux" (99.55MB) and then unpacked it in ~/usr/java using the command
tar zxvf jre-8u431-linux-i586.tar.gz

and create the file jre1.8.0_431

However now LO Writer again refuses to open.
If I rm -r jre1.8.0_431, Writer opens up again so clearly JRE is causing this haha.

Does anyone have any ideas? The issue in the title of this post has been solved.
Should I open a new topic?

Thank you.

[sp4nn3rs]

you could either launch libreoffice from terminal and paste here the terminal's output , or, you can download and launch the AppImage version and use that instead.

you can found it here

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/appimage/

I managed to get a version of LibreOffice Writer to work, but could you please explain how I would launch it from the terminal? If I google this, it says to just write the name of the program you want to open in the terminal, but if I do this I just get:

# LibreOffice Writer 4.4
bash: LibreOffice: command not found

This is even when Writer 4.4 is confirmed to be working after being launched from the Start menu.
I can however launch mp3blaster by just tying the name in the terminal. Do you happen to know why this is happening?

[sp4nn3rs]

How did you install Libreoffice?

Do you have a .desktop file?

If so, open it up in a text editor and share the contents.

Also which Puppy build are you using?

How are using Zotero as a desktop application or via a browser?

The version I got to work was libreoffice-7.3.0.3_i386.sfs I got here:
https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 125#p87125

What do you mean by .desktop file?

My build is friendly-jammypup32-rc2

[sp4nn3rs]

Hello guys

(...) @sp4nn3rs

Thanks :>

This appimage is ready to use in x64 puppies.

Simply download, extract and run APPRUN (click on it)

It works for me, I hope it works 4 u 2.

Cheers

Libre Office 7.0.4 X 86 64. App Image.tar https://archive.org/details/libre-offic ... -image.tar

This won't work for the OP...they are running a 32 bit Puppy, and IIRC Intel Atom N270 CPUs are only 32 bit, I have one in my old Acer Aspire netbook.
They also are RAM starved...I suspect LibreOffice Writer is not loading because runs out of memory. Possible solution would be to setup a swap file...
SO, @sp4nn3rs , in a terminal, type "pupswap", press the Enter key...then setup at least a 1 gig swap file on your HD.
Then try running one of your Writer installs.
Wiz

In the end I got Writer to work without having to try this but thank you regardless

[mikeslr]

Glad you got it working. But with your limited ram you may want to try mikewalsh's SoftMaker FreeOffice-portable 'TextMaker', available from this post, viewtopic.php?p=48734#p48734

[Jasper]

What do you mean by .desktop file?

Look in

/usr/share/applications