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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.

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 :>

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/

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?

sp4nn3rs wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 6:04 pm

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

pp4mnklinux wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 8:06 pm

sp4nn3rs wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 6:04 pm

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

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

viewtopic.php?t=5635

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:

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

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.

darksun wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 6:41 pm

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?

Jasper wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 6:47 pm

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

Wiz57 wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 9:48 pm

pp4mnklinux wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 8:06 pm

sp4nn3rs wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 6:04 pm

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

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

What do you mean by .desktop file?

Look in

/usr/share/applications