Anno domini 2022 Wed, 16 Feb 15:44:20 -0600 Michael scripsit: > On Wednesday 16 February 2022 02:57:38 pm William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > I will eventually try just reinstalling my OS and everything, to see if > > that might resolve it. I suspect that I might have to downgrade to Devuan > > Beowulf. I did have OO running on Beowulf, but that was a 32-bit machine, > > and the saved packages don't match my 64-bit laptop, and now I can't find > > older versions of OO in 64-bit. > > > > So now I have to try to find some combination of OS, preferably Devuan, and > > an office program that are compatible for my machine. The machine itself is > > practically brand-new, runs well, I need to resolve several issues, of > > which this is the most important. > > Hi Bill, > > To save yourself some time, try the OS/OO combinations in a VM. That way > you'll at least have a [semi] functioning machine until you hit the jackpot. > > > I did give LibreOffice a try, too, but now not even that will run > > properly. > > LO should run perfectly fine on any recent Debian based derivative. So, > that's a bit worrying and implies that you've broken your current install. > Maybe first try loading what you want [Devuan Chimaera 64-bit?] into a VM (to > get a perfectly clean copy), make a VM backup*, and then re-try installing > OO, LO, etc. It could be some problem with $PATH. I see firefox crashing/hanging when displaying videos on my laptop when I start it from TDE menu or via <alt+F2>, but it works perfectly fine when I launch it from a terminal. (some day I'll need to figure that out, 'caus it works on my desktop where I have fiddled with $PATH some time ago) Nik > > Best, > Michael > > * Yeah, I don’t know how either :( “Google it with Bing” as it’s now said... > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
