Hi folks,
Any idea where is LibreOffice 3.4 for OpenSUSE 11.4. If it is available yet.
Thanks
I’m very interested in this as well!
The repositories have not tracked the 3.4 betas, and have had little change for the last month… Index of /repositories/LibreOffice:
The announcement from LibreOffice says that 0 point releases are intended for testing and sibsequent point releases for general use; so you may need to install it from Factory if you want it. 3.4.1 is due out at the end of this month.
Thanks. LibO 3.4 is intended for the early adaptors actually. I"ll wait on 3.4.1
Yet 3.4.0 is still not in the repos… it is expected to get there at all this month, or will betas and “unstable” now be skipped because of the way LibreOffice releases are now structured?
It seems the wiki page needs to be reworded to reflect this: LibreOffice - openSUSE
And a search for LibreOffice packages in Factory do not reveal any new builds: software.opensuse.org: Search Results
Still anticipating a 3.4 release! Especially now that 3.4.1 is available.
Yeah, can’t we, openSUSE people be considered as “most users”? Where’s 3.4.1 for openSUSE? 
On 07/15/2011 08:36 AM, atroxix wrote:
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> Yeah, can’t we, openSUSE people be considered as “most users”? Where’s
> 3.4.1 for openSUSE?
what features are available in 3.4.1 which are not in, or not working in
the 3.3.1 release available in 11.4??
well, if whatever your reason for wanting to run 3.4.1 there is no
reason not to…just grab and go: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
but, make sure to have a way back to stable and productive…
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DD
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Yeah, well… I was just wondering why isn’t it in openSUSE repos yet.
On 07/15/2011 10:36 AM, atroxix wrote:
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> Yeah, well… I was just wondering why isn’t it in openSUSE repos yet.
maybe you misunderstand the basic tenants of this distribution…some
distros offer a “rolling release” and all throughout the lifetime of any
particular OS version there will be upgrades of applications added, as
they become available from the makers…
i believe Ubuntu is one of the distros which does that…
openSUSE has not and does not do that…normally, the version of any
application released with an openSUSE version will remain for the entire
supported lifetime of the openSUSE version…
however, security and critical bug fixes are passed to users through the
update repo…generally those are not new versions of the applications,
but instead are patches and the resulting patched application has the
same prime version number…
occasionally those will be security updates/major bug fixes in the form
of a new version of an application…for example, firefox recently
releases a mostly bug and security fix package as a new version
(5.0)…because of the nature of the fixes it flowed almost immediately
to the update repo and into 11.4
but, by no means are all new versions of applications rushed to the
update repo for general distribution between version releases of
openSUSE…instead, they flow into the factory repo where they then will
be tested during the milestone and release candidate series and finally
released with the next version of openSUSE…
i suppose eventually (if not already) 3.4.1 will be in factory and the
follow openSUSE 12.1…but, you should not expect to find it nor
anything else being releases as a new application version to be
automatically rolled into an existing version of openSUSE…
so, now you know why you can stop “wondering why isn’t it in openSUSE
repos yet”, because it won’t be until it is in the 12.1 repos…
as previously mentioned, if you need it before then you can download the
source and build it for yourself…
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DD
Caveat-Hardware-Software
openSUSE®, the BMW® of operating systems!
I thought the idea of the Tumbleweed repositories was to provide a rolling release. Also, I would have thought the 3.4.1 release would have made it into the factory repositories.
On 07/16/2011 08:06 PM, soduntan wrote:
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> I thought the idea of the Tumbleweed repositories was to provide a
> rolling release.
i was talking openSUSE, Tumbleweed is a different matter…i’m running
openSUSE and i will probably continue…
if you (or the questioner) is running Tumbleweed, then the place to ask
about what is or is not available for it is not here, but in the
Tumbleweed forum, here: http://tinyurl.com/3ljwanm
when you are running Tumbleweed code you are no longer running openSUSE
as Tumbleweed is a different release…
> Also, I would have thought the 3.4.1 release would
> have made it into the factory repositories.
now see, Factory is openSUSE and not Tumbleweed…but it is not
released openSUSE! right now Factory has only openSUSE 12.1, which is
still in pre-beta testing (aka: milestone releases)
if you are not an experienced Linux experimental software tester you
should steer clear of Factory…or rather, just put it on a testing only
machine and do not run it on a machine with anything you would not
be happy to loose…at any instant, anything from factory could be
expected to ruin your day!!
now, when or where 3.4.1 might show up i do not know, and this is not
the place to ask or banter about it…
the bottom line is as i mentioned before: if you need a feature which is
in 3.4.1 then go get it…there is nothing making you wait for it to
show up in an 11.4 repo, or anywhere else in the openSUSE.org environment…
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DD
Caveat-Hardware-Software
openSUSE®, the BMW® of operating systems!
Yes, I wasn’t expecting 3.4.x to show up in a 11.4 repo. Rather expecting to see it in either Factory, Tumbleweed or LibreOffice:/Unstable repos… just as LibreOffice became available last Winter before the 11.4 release when OOo was still officially maintained.
On 07/17/2011 09:06 PM, kahu wrote:
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> expecting to see it in either Factory, Tumbleweed or
> LibreOffice:/Unstable repos… just as LibreOffice became available last
> Winter before the 11.4 release when OOo was still officially maintained.
you do recognize there was a political reason it was rushed into the
repos and folks were given the chance to dump OOo? and, that reason
does not exist for 3.4.x … know what i mean?
but again, this is not the place for this discussion…the folks who
make those decisions and know kinda what is gonna happen don’t hang out
here…this is a forum of users helping users…
the developers almost never come here…you can catch them on IRC or
the mail lists…
this forum is where folks with a problem asks for help with an
application–not where they ask questions like “Any idea where is
LibreOffice 3.4 for OpenSUSE 11.4. If it is available yet.”
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DD
Caveat-Hardware-Software
openSUSE®, the BMW® of operating systems!
So some 3.4.2 rpms are showing up!
On 08/10/2011 08:36 PM, kahu wrote:
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> So some 3.4.2 rpms are showing up!
> ‘software.opensuse.org: Search Results’ (http://tinyurl.com/422h3gy)
yes, it is showing up in Factory, and not 11.4 repos as the original
poster to this thread was asking…
maybe 3.4.2 makes it into 12.1, maybe not…(but, my guess is they will
sure try to get it into 12.1 gold.
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
LO-3.4.2 has been in
…/repositories/LibreOffice:/Unstable/openSUSE_11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Unstable/openSUSE_11.4/)
for about a week now.
Why do some posters deliberately obfuscate links with e.g tinyurl and bit.ly? It is not very friendly. It’s useful to be able to read and make sense of a link before or instead of clicking. This sort of obfuscation is associated with malware and the URLs are blocked from my more security conscious customers’ sites.
On 08/11/2011 07:56 AM, eng-int wrote:
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> LO-3.4.2 has been in
> ‘…/repositories/LibreOffice:/Unstable/openSUSE_11.4’
> (http://tinyurl.com/3nbxz5h)
> for about a week now.
>
> Why do some posters deliberately obfuscate links with e.g tinyurl and
> bit.ly? It is not very friendly. It’s useful to be able to read and
> make sense of a link before or instead of clicking. This sort of
> obfuscation is associated with malware and the URLs are blocked from my
> more security conscious customers’ sites.
how about this:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Unstable/openSUSE_11.4/
like that better?
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
eng-int wrote:
> Why do some posters deliberately obfuscate links with e.g tinyurl and
> bit.ly? It is not very friendly. It’s useful to be able to read and
> make sense of a link before or instead of clicking. This sort of
> obfuscation is associated with malware and the URLs are blocked from my
> more security conscious customers’ sites.
+1
Does it also make it more likely the article will be highly page-ranked?
i.e. How do the search engines deal with links via bit.ly et al?
do you know what features has LO 3.4??
I use 3.3.1 and its great except just one thing… when I save .doc files and open them in MS Office they get messed up, it’s quite disadvantage when I want keep my layout.
Hope new LB release fixes that…