Re: [libreoffice-users] Upgrade loses fonts

On 02/14/2017 05:40 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
>
> > I did not see "tuffy" in the font list within LibreOffice till I looked
> > into the usr/share/fonts/truetype and /opentype. I never knew I had some
> > of these fonts till I looked. There are some of these fonts that were in
> > my ".font" folder and also in the "usr/share/. . ." folder. Most of the
> > ".font" folder fonts are not in the "usr/share/ . ." list.
>
>   I've never used ~/.font/; all the fonts installed on the system are in
> /usr/share/fonts/ subdirectories. All in one place.
>
>   Now I need the 5.1.4 tarball to re-install that version.
>
> Rich
Rich,
I don't know where you got your Slackware package to install or if you 
created it yourself, as I do.  Or you installed the RPM directly.  I use 
SlackBuilds.org for my Slack packages.  Here is S14.1 LO 5.1.4:

https://www.slackbuilds.org/result/?search=libreoffice&sv=14.1

There is a link to the LO website where you can download 5.1.4. Alas, it 
is no longer available or broken.  I did some drilling work for you and 
here is 5.1.6 on a mirror site, which is supposed to be the stable version:

http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/tdf/libreoffice/stable/5.1.6/rpm/x86/

Another point is that I was told that the most stable LO is x.x.6+. 
Since 5.3 is not there yet, I will wait until 5.3.6 is released or try 
5.2.6.  I am currently running LO 5.1.6.2 on My Slackware 14.2 system.  
Like you, it runs fine.

I also am confused as to why you seem to have lost fonts in 
/usr/share/fonts.  You are not running LO as root are you?  That path 
and all the files in there should only have root write permissions.  
Running LO as a user should not remove fonts from that directory.  I 
have not looked at 5.3 yet, so I do not know what the distribution 
package would overwrite when installed as root.  I always look at the 
package innards before I install it to see if there are any nasties in 
there which could cause problems.  I have been burned in the past by 
packages that do nasty things.  I just looked at my LO 5.1.6.2 Slackware 
package that I created and there is no /usr/share/fonts directory, so it 
could not overwrite anything when installed.

Alas, reinstalling LO 5.1.4 will probably not restore your missing 
fonts.  Good luck.

HTH.
Girvin Herr






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