17 Feb
2022
17 Feb
'22
9:01 a.m.
On Wednesday 16 February 2022 13:44:20 Michael wrote:
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.
>
A potential solution for myself, or at least a makeshift workaround, has been
found; to wit, I have located a page with all the legacy packages for Open
Office. Don't know why I wasn't able to find it earlier, cuz I did a whole
lotta looking for them.
Anyway, I know it's totally off-topic for TDE, but I will post the links here,
as I happen to know that there are a few others on the mailing list who, like
myself, prefer Open Office.
https://archive.apache.org/dist/openoffice/
https://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/ooo/files/stable/
https://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/ooo/stable/
I will assume that anybody who searches hard enough can find their repository,
and the links on SourceForge, so there's no need to post them here.
Follow the links to find just which earlier version might work for you. They
go all the way back to the beginning of the Apache fork, if I read correctly.
Downloading several different versions now myself, in both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Experience has taught me that it's better to have it and not need it, than to
need it and not have it. However, it will take me a while to test them.
If I get any signficant results (and if they somehow relate to that apparent
problem with the gtk-tqt-engine causing crashes when I run Open Office), I'll
post something here on the mailing list.
Thanks for any help. I have been reading comments in the thread.
Bill