On Wednesday 16 February 2022 02:57:38 pm William Morder via tde-users wrote:
I will eventually try just reinstalling my OS and everything, to see if that might resolve it. I suspect that I might have to downgrade to Devuan Beowulf. I did have OO running on Beowulf, but that was a 32-bit machine, and the saved packages don't match my 64-bit laptop, and now I can't find older versions of OO in 64-bit.
So now I have to try to find some combination of OS, preferably Devuan, and an office program that are compatible for my machine. The machine itself is practically brand-new, runs well, I need to resolve several issues, of which this is the most important.
Hi Bill,
To save yourself some time, try the OS/OO combinations in a VM. That way you'll at least have a [semi] functioning machine until you hit the jackpot.
I did give LibreOffice a try, too, but now not even that will run properly.
LO should run perfectly fine on any recent Debian based derivative. So, that's a bit worrying and implies that you've broken your current install. Maybe first try loading what you want [Devuan Chimaera 64-bit?] into a VM (to get a perfectly clean copy), make a VM backup*, and then re-try installing OO, LO, etc.
Best, Michael
* Yeah, I don’t know how either :( “Google it with Bing” as it’s now said...