Re: [libreoffice-users] LOBase reports fail

Thanks, Paul. In the end, I was able to follow Robert Großkopf's
suggestions. All seems well now.

Cheers
Harvey

On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 15:01 -0400, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:
> I don't use rpm's but assume that command paths are unique and
> similar 
> in executing commands.
>
> Search for "soffice". You should find 2 paths and, therefor, 2 files 
> named "soffice"
>
> Run each "soffice" as program or executable.
>
> Click on menus <Help><About LibreOffice> to see which version.
>
> Hope this helps till a better answer comes along.
>
> Paul
>
> On 6/24/24 11:18, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> > On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 16:11 +0200, Robert Großkopf wrote:
> > > Hi Harvey,
> > >
> > > > LibreOffice Version: 24.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
> > > > Build ID: 420(Build:2)
> > > > CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 6.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
> > > > Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB
> > > > Calc: threaded
> > > Seems many LO version packed by a Linux distribution will fail to
> > > execute any report. Don't know why.
> > >
> > > Please install the original from LibreOffice. It will work.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Robert
> > > -- 
> > > Homepage:https://www.familiegrosskopf.de/robert
> > ...I've screwed up the installation because I don't know what I'm
> > doing...;-(
> >
> > I downloaded from LO, extracted the files and entered in the
> > terminal
> >
> > ~/Downloads/LibreOffice_24.2.4.2_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS> sudo rpm -
> > Uvh
> > *.rpm
> >
> > I now have two versions installed, 24.2.1.2(old) and 24.2.4.2-
> > 2(new)
> > and I do not know how to activate the second one. I can guess, I
> > could
> > use YaST to delete the old one to start with, but what can go
> > wrong?
> > And I have no idea how to activate the new one in Gnome.
> >
> > What do you suggest?
> >
> > Regards
> > Harvey


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