Re: [libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash

Hi :)
There are likely to be differences between the official TDF version and any version in any distros 
repos because they tend to tweak them a little to fit in better.  It doesn't usually make things go 
wonky but appears to have broken something for you  this time.  

Noob-friendly "gateway" distros such as Ubuntu/Debian family are great for starting out with 
Gnu&Linux but once you get into tweaking things yourself you might enjoy giving Arch or Slackware a 
try.  There are a lot of distros in between the 2 extremes.  Slackware usually tries to do the 
least amount of tweaking for most packages but apparently Arch has better documentation to help set 
the whole thing up.  If i went this route i would dual-boot with Ubuntu/Debian for a while by 
installing Arch or Slackware on a new partition.  I don't think i would go this route at all tho.  
I prefer sticking with Ubuntu as articles appear in fairly mainstream media about it and i bump 
into people that are using it.  

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sun, 8/4/12, Jonathan Schultz <jonathan@imatix.com> wrote:

From: Jonathan Schultz <jonathan@imatix.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 8 April, 2012, 5:26

> Presumably you copied
> the old User Profile to the new place to get your previous settings
> and Extensions back?

Yes, did that and it worked fine. I also do some strange things like 
replace the dictionary files with symbolic links into my working 
directories so that they get shared and synchronised between my 
different devices.

>   You can always try the repo version another
> time and then perhaps do a parallel install after that maybe.

Since I noticed that the debian testing repository is allegedly the same 
version as TDF's (3.4.6-602) I tried using it but the problem came back. 
So I'll stick with TDF's version for now and wait for a new release.

Cheers,
Jonathan

  Regards
> from Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Sun, 8/4/12, Jonathan Schultz<jonathan@imatix.com>  wrote:
>
> From: Jonathan Schultz<jonathan@imatix.com> Subject: Re:
> [libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash To:
> users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 8 April, 2012, 1:11
>
> > You might have already tried this but it looks like you didn't
> > mention it.  Can you download the TDF's official version instead
> > of using one from the repos?
> > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=deb-x86〈=en-GB
>
> I have tried it now, and it works! Thank you very much. It messed
> with my desktop integration a little and put the configuration files
> in a different place, but when I'd worked that out it all looked
> good.
>
> I didn't bother with the parallel installation though, actually
> didn't notice that you'd shown me that link until it was too late. I
> guess I can go back to the debian distro when they get 3.4.6?
>
> > Annoyingly the main downloads page tries to give me the .Rpm
> > instead of the .Deb but also it lets you choose the more stable
> > 3.4.6 instead of the 3.5.2.
>
> It worked for me, ie offered me the .deb installation.
>
> Cheers, Jonathan


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