If I try to upgrade to LO 4.2.x zypper want to remove 8 packets:
libreoffice-base-extensions libreoffice-draw-extensions libreoffice-help-it libreoffice-hyphen
libreoffice-impress-extensions libreoffice-thesaurus-it myspell-american myspell-italian
since the LO 4.2 repo has been added to http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/ it is showing this beavior
so I don’t know if it safe to upgrade or not…
I just installed LibreOffice 4.2.5 from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/4.2/openSUSE_13.1/ on an openSUSE 13.1 KDE 32-bit system, switching all files to that repository from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_13.1/
The switch required the following:
[Delete] libreoffice-help-en-US | American Help Localization for LibreO... | 4.1.6.2-7.1 | 23.8 MiB
[Autodelete] libreoffice-base-extensions | LibreOffice Base Extensions | 4.1.6.2-4.1 |
[Autodelete] libreoffice-draw-extensions | LibreOffice Draw Extensions | 4.1.6.2-4.1 | 233 B
[Autodelete] libreoffice-hyphen | Hyphen Dictionaries for LibreOffice | 20110203.1-1.1 | 3.0 MiB
[Autodelete] libreoffice-impress-extensions | LibreOffice Impress Extensions | 4.1.6.2-4.1 | 1.5 MiB
[Autodelete] libreoffice-thesaurus-en-US | American Thesaurus Dictionary for Lib... | 20060111.1-1.1 | 20.6 MiB
[Autodelete] myspell-american | American Dictionary for MySpell | 20100316-20.1 | 724.6 KiB
Limited testing indicates most things work correctly. Help files do seem to be absent, though. YMMV.
Regards,
Howard
yes, is the same repo I’m using, my install is 64 bit version
so those packets are going to be removed without being replaced? Are useless with the new version?
is there no need of them or just have they not been uploaded yet?
Those packages do not exist any more with LO 4.2.
Their content is now contained in other packages.
F.e. the mysql packages have been reworked, the dictionaries from myspell-american and so on are now part of myspell-en.
libreoffice-hyphen is not needed/used any more I think because the hyphenation data is part of mysql now as well.
The help is now contained in the standard language packages, libreoffice-help-en-US f.e. is now part of libreoffice-l10n-en.
OTOH, libreoffice-base-extensions is completely empty even in the 4.1.6.2 version from the official update repo, and libreoffice-draw-extensions only contains this README file there:
Dear customer,
the PDF import extension has been integrated into the main application.
The result is that this package is empty. We keep it for future use
because it makes the maintenance process easier.
Sincerely,
Your SUSE team
And the only thing libreoffice-draw-extensions contained (namely “Presentation Minimizer”) is now part of the main libreoffice-impress package as well.
So you won’t miss much when you uninstall those packages… 
thank you for the explanation, wolfi 
now I’m with LO 4.2.5.2
You’re welcome.
No idea why I wrote “mysql” instead of “myspell” though…
I noticed and changed it before submitting the post, but I missed the first one. Sorry. :
I hope it’s obvious that that should have been myspell as well:
Something still seems to be missing from Help. libreoffice-l10n-en is installed. The help window shows index topics in the left pane, but the right pane is blank for all topics I tried.
I downloaded the LO 4.2.5.2 rpms from the LO site, and selected libobasis4.2-en-US-help for installation. That pulled in other files as follows:
# Status Package | Summary | Installed (Available) | Size
[Install] libobasis4.2-en-US-help | Help module for LibreOffice 4.2, lang... | (4.2.5.2-2) | 23.9 MiB
[Autoinstall] libobasis4.2-core01 | Core module for LibreOffice 4.2 .5.2 | (4.2.5.2-2) | 60.1 MiB
[Autoinstall] libobasis4.2-en-US | Language module for LibreOffice 4.2, ... | (4.2.5.2-2) | 145.9 KiB
[Autoinstall] libreoffice4.2-ure | UNO Runtime Environment .5.2 | (4.2.5.2-2) | 8.9 MiB
However, the right help pane was still blank.
I uninstalled the LO from the openSUSE repository, and installed everything from the downloaded LO rpms. Now the help window shows information correctly.
What am I missing to get help working in the openSUSE repository version?
Thanks,
Howard
You should not mix the packages from the LibreOffice repo with the ones from the LO website.
They are completely different.
No idea why the help would be missing though. The files are there AFAICS.
Maybe try with a different user?
I will try to install LO 4.2.5 here in a moment to see whether I can reproduce the problem.
I could reproduce the issue here.
Apparently some files are missing after the upgrade:
:-> rpm -q libreoffice
libreoffice-4.2.5.2-10.1.x86_64
:-> lowriter
file:///usr/share/libreoffice/help/main_transform.xsl:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
file:///usr/share/libreoffice/help/main_transform.xsl:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
error
xsltParseStylesheetFile : cannot parse file:///usr/share/libreoffice/help/main_transform.xsl
:~> rpm -V libreoffice
missing /usr/share/libreoffice/help/idxcaption.xsl
missing /usr/share/libreoffice/help/idxcontent.xsl
missing /usr/share/libreoffice/help/main_transform.xsl
After I re-installed the package “libreoffice” (either select “Upgrade Unconditionally” in YaST, or run “sudo zypper in -f libreoffice”) the help worked.
Apparently when you upgrade, those files get removed when the old version is uninstalled, which YaST/zypper apparently does after installing the new packages.
Re-installing “libreoffice” creates those files again, as they are actually contained in that package also for 4.2.5.
So this is a flaw in the upgrade process. If you uninstall the old libreoffice packages completely and then install the new version, it should work straight away.
Thanks, wolfi323, everything works here now.
I completely uninstalled everything from the 4.2.5.2 rpm archives downloaded from the LO site, then installed LO 4.2.5.2 from the repository http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/4.2/openSUSE_13.1/. All functions including help seem to be working straight away.
Best regards,
Howard
PS: the missing help problem after the upgrade should be fixed now for the 4.3 packages in LibreOffice:Factory.
Btw, here’s the bug report (I forgot to post it earlier):
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884458
I asked for the fix being applied to LibreOffice:42 as well.
I recommend everybody that are in the thoughts of upgrade LO to go for 4.3x version. If I should describe the benefits… Simply another level of office packet pointing out Calc and spreadsheets(recently used a lot) for myself. And its considerably faster then before on my HW. Thank you developers and packagers:).
regards