On 2022-02-17 01:54:19 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > 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@trinitydes > >ktop.org Here's what I use to visualize my $PATH | ~ | $ alias paths | alias paths='echo $PATH | tr '\'':'\'' '\''\n'\''' | @02:28:01,leslie@pinto rc=0 and here is the $PATH search order: | ~ | $ paths | /home/leslie/bin | /home/leslie/.local/bin | /opt/trinity/bin | /opt/trinity/lib64 | /usr/local/bin | /bin | /usr/bin | /usr/local/sbin | /sbin | /usr/sbin | /usr/local/lib64 | /usr/local/lib | @02:29:59,leslie@pinto rc=0 (I put /opt/trinity/... before the main executables because for a while at least, some Trinity programs were named the same as KDE programs.) Unfortunately, OpenOffice is no longer available for my distro, so I can't test if it works or not on my machine. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.11 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ 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
