LibreOffice on Fedora 13

OlivFedora · #1 28th January 2011, 11:05 AM

Hello,
I'm trying to install LibreOffice on Fedora 13.
First step is to get the package.
I went on http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Amazingly it doesn't work, as they say "When you visit this page, we try to detect your system and offer you the right download automatically, but we may not succeed in all cases. "
Well thanks, it doesn't work in my case, so I cannot download anything.
It doesn't look like the best way to spread their new software...

I can find some rpm for Fedora 15.
It seems that I could find some rpms not specific to fedora15, but where ??

thanks,
O'

---------- Post added at 07:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:50 PM ----------

I've found this file on torrent :
LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

is it the last version ? RCXX ?

This is a bit confusing, I hope they'll sort this out...

Adunaic · #2 28th January 2011, 11:14 AM

Looks like they have a slight error on the page. It detected my OS correctly the other day, but now it does on my fedora or ubuntu box.

OlivFedora · #3 28th January 2011, 12:28 PM

Here are the last news :
LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz is the good file for LibreOffice 3.3 final.

and for some reasons the download link on the official site is now working on my computer...

All well and good !

Next step will be to install and use it, but I'm confident it will be ok.

OlivFedora · #4 29th January 2011, 08:59 AM

No big issues but still some details to be aware of :

- for the rpms I used the --nogpgcheck option because first yum told me it was not signed :
yum --nogpgcheck install *.rpm
yum --nogpgcheck install libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus-3.3-6.noarch.rpm
(Same for LibO_3.3.0rc4_Linux_x86_helppack-rpm_en-US)

- the default application for opening the documents (ods, odt...) became the archive manager... so I had first to right click on the file, select "Open with other application..." and select LibreOffice.
then right click again and in "Propreties->Open With" and select LibreOffice. I had to repeat those steps for each type of file. Now they open correctly with LibreOffice.

- for some reason the fonts I'm using as default fonts for the applications (Brettfonts) are not correctly supported so all the spaces are now squares LibreOffice.