Escuelas Linux 6.5 with LibreOffice 6.3, both 32 and 64-bit, has been released, as well as the second version of our Escuelas Linux Developer Pack.
https://sourceforge.net/p/escuelaslinux/blog/2019/08/announcing-escuelas-linux-65/ and https://sourceforge.net/p/escuelaslinux/blog/2019/08/escuelas-linux-developer-pack-20-is-here/ Again, many thanks to all the folks that helped us to reach this goal. 😄 El vie., 16 ago. 2019 a las 13:43, dreamn...@gmail.com (<dreamn...@gmail.com>) escribió: > Finally sort of solved. > > We were not able to get ‘make’ without cppunit errors. Tried numerous > times on VMs with Escuelas Linux and Bodhi Linux (both based on Ubuntu > 18.04) and on Debian 10 (on a VM and on a schroot environment). > > What we did if after a ‘make’ with errors, we had to ran ‘make > build-nocheck’ to be able to bypass those errors on a Debian 10 schroot > environment. This time, the required debs files were produced. However, > when installing those debs and trying to run LibreOffice on Escuelas Linux > (the main target distribution) it does not work, as it complains about a > glibc mismatch version. So, it seems that the generated deb files are not > distribution-independent as the ones that were previously released by The > Document Foundation. > > Under these circumstances, we then proceeded to create the deb files > inside a Escuelas Linux VM. > > In Escuelas Linux (and I guess on any Ubuntu 18.04 system) the command > > sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice > > does not install all the required packages to pass the autogen.sh phase, > as we found to be the case in Debian 10. It complains about missing KF5 > stuff, so we installed these (some packages might not be necessary, but at > least this worked) > > > sudo apt-get install \ > > libkf5archive-dev libkf5bookmarks-dev libkf5coreaddons-dev libkf5config-dev \ > libkf5configwidgets-dev libkf5dbusaddons-dev libkf5kio-dev > libkf5widgetsaddons-dev \ > libkf5notifyconfig-dev libkf5newstuff-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev > libkf5declarative-dev \ > libkf5notifications-dev libkf5guiaddons-dev libkf5textwidgets-dev > libkf5iconthemes-dev \ > kdoctools-dev libkf5crash-dev libkf5filemetadata-dev extra-cmake-modules \ > libsm-dev cmake qtdeclarative5-dev kde-runtime kinit kio \ > qml-module-qtquick-controls > > We also had to install qt5-default and libqt5x11extras5-dev. > > Just to be sure, we also installed IBM Java, as it is the one used in > Escuelas Linux. Other Java environments have an ugly effect specifically on > LibreOffice 32-bit, as we reported at the time on our blog: > > > https://sourceforge.net/p/escuelaslinux/blog/2019/03/how-to-fix-libreoffice-startup-crashes-in-escuelas-linux-62-32-bit/ > > However, switching our distribution to IBM Java solved those issues in a > better way than passing stack_guard_gap=1. > > Our autogen.input is: > > *--with-distro=LibreOfficeLinux**--disable-gstreamer-0-10**--with-lang=es**--with-myspell-dicts**--enable-release-build**--with-package-format=deb**--disable-dependency-tracking**--with-jdk-home=/usr/lib/jvm/**ibm-java90-jdk-i386**/* > > Again, after we got a ‘make’ with errors, we had to ran ‘make > build-nocheck’ to be able to bypass those. The deb files were produced and > seem to be working fine when installed on Escuelas Linux. > > As the resulting .deb files does not seem to be distribution independent, > we may not be offering then to download in our SourceForge site as we > planned. If as time passes somebody knows how to solve the make errors we > get, and how to release distro-independent deb packages, we might then > offer LibreOffice 32-bit binary deb builts available for download, for > parties that might be still interested on them. > > For now, I’m happy to announce that our upcoming Escuelas Linux version > 6.5, will include, among other things, LibreOffice 6.3.0.4 in both of our > editions, 32-bit and 64-bit. > > Many thanks to all the folks that helped us in this thread. I owe you a > big beer ;-) > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/escuelaslinux/ > > https://www.facebook.com/escuelas.linux > > > > El vie., 26 jul. 2019 a las 10:01, dreamn...@gmail.com (< > dreamn...@gmail.com>) escribió: > >> Hi! Greetings from the Escuelas Linux team. We are small Linux >> distribution that can be downloaded from >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/escuelaslinux/. >> Some more references about our activity can be found by doing an Internet >> search, or on own Facebook account, escuelas.linux >> >> We still provide a 32-bit edition of our distro, because among our users >> there are a lot of low-income public schools, in which are still in use old >> computers with about 512 MB to a 1 GB of RAM. That amount of RAM would make >> running a Linux 64-bit system awfully slow, so we have to accommodate to >> the needs and possibilities of what is available in poor areas, those in >> which even having an old computer is still somehow a luxury. >> >> We perfectly understand that TDF releasing 32-bit Linux LibreOffice >> packages was not worth anymore, given the small amount of downloads. >> Certainly some of those downloads were made by us, as we only required one >> download of a given LibreOffice version to have it installed in our distro >> and be used in hundreds of computers. A lot of those computers could not >> even be traceable, since there are no Internet connection in poor or remote >> schools. But we believe that even if we reported who and where are those >> schools, that would be still a small amount to be worth the effort and >> resources required to match the bigger amounts of downloads that seems to >> be receiving the LibreOffice 32-bit Windows counterpart. >> >> Given that TDF ended the provision of Linux 32-bit distribution neutral >> binaries, but not the 32-bit compatibility, we would like to step up to >> produce by ourselves the 32-bit distribution neutral deb packages from >> LibreOffice 6.3 and up. We are not aware of other distros or volunteers >> releasing the most recent LibreOffice version to date (6.3) as 32-bit >> distribution independent binaries. >> >> Recently, the official LibreOffice Blog published instructions about how >> to compile LibreOffice on Linux. However, we’d like to be able not only to >> compile LibreOffice, but we would like to learn how to be able to produce >> by ourselves the same set of 32-bit distribution-independent deb packages >> that were compressed as a .tar.gz, that is, the LibreOffice binaries >> (LibreOffice_?.?.?_Linux_x86-_deb.tar.gz), the translated user interface >> (the LibreOffice_?.?.?_Linux_x86-_deb_langpack_??.tar.gz) and the offline >> help (LibreOffice_?.?.?_Linux_x86-_deb_helppack_??.tar.gz). As for the user >> interface and the offline packages, our main focus would be Spanish >> language. >> >> On the download section is always available the following source code >> packages: >> libreoffice-?.?.?.?.tar.xz >> libreoffice-dictionaries-?.?.?.?.tar.xz >> libreoffice-help-?.?.?.?.tar.xz >> libreoffice-translations-?.?.?.?.tar.xz >> >> But, given our inexperience, we don’t know how to use this source >> packages to produce the same set of 32-bit deb packages as were previously >> provided by TDF. Since LibreOffice is distributed in a lot of languages, we >> guess that the user interface and offline packages are not created manually >> one by one by hand, some useful scripts could have been created to automate >> as far as possible those tasks. >> >> So, we respectfully ask for some pointers and steps required to reach >> this goal. In this way, we might be able to continue the production of the >> 32-bit deb packages, freeing TDF of that burden as planned but, at the same >> time, we could provide those packages for the parties that could be still >> interested in them. We could not be able to support rpm-based binaries >> though, someone else would have to step up if there's a need for that. >> >> Please let us know if this request of help is feasible for the >> Developer(s) that are responsible of the LibreOffice packaging. >> >>
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