Upgrade to LibreOffice 4.2!

[Fintan]

I followed this tut:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...0-423091.shtml

and it worked great!

No more crashes when moving calc cells or doing some other "weird" stuff which always brought my 4.1.x version to its knees.

Plus, it is much cleaner and faster

Try it out.

[richb]

Yes, worth the upgrade just for the cell move improvement.

[halw]

I followed this tut:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...0-423091.shtml

and it worked great!

No more crashes when moving calc cells or doing some other "weird" stuff which always brought my 4.1.x version to its knees.

Plus, it is much cleaner and faster

Try it out.

Thanks for the heads up. Just installed in 12.04.

[Feathers McGraw]

Thanks, will check it out!

[Tom_ZeCat]

Thanks for the heads up. I hope they've solved some of LO Writer's crash problems. I save everything to thumb drives. If I don't remember to click on a drive first in Dolphin before saving to it from Writer, I'll often get a crash. What's worse is the recovery feature doesn't always get my document back. I really hope they've fixed this. I guess I'll find out.

Edit: It didn't crash this time around, but the first save to the thumb drive took an eternity.

[NoWorries]

I had LibreOffice 4.2 on Trusty and I found that mp4, AVI, etc multimedia files gave a question mark before playing the file. For LibreOffice, I can only get multimedia to work by installing the gstreamer files with the package gst123. You can find my bug report here. Unfortunately no action seems to be taken as it is claimed to be a duplicate to bug 56847, which, in my opinion, is caused by users not having all the LO dependencies installed.

[Fintan]

Trying to open(import) pdf's crashes 4.2 here. Anyone else see this?

[richb]

Works OK here.

[Fintan]

Well, am glad of you but not for me.
I have libreoffice pdf-import installed but it doesn't show in the LO extensions and crashes LO when I try and load a pdf.

[richb]

I thought you were asking for all experiences. Sorry I bothered to answer.

[Fintan]

I didn't mean it like that. I am glad it is working for you. I am just wondering if I am alone with this. sorry if you felt offended. It was certainly not meant that way.

[richb]

I didn't mean it like that. I am glad it is working for you. I am just wondering if I am alone with this. sorry if you felt offended. It was certainly not meant that way.

No problem. it is difficult at times in the written word to get the intent, and I need my second cup of coffee.

I wonder if a complete removal and reinstall would help. I would like some confirmation from someone else before you tried in case that would cause other issues in your configuration. The other thought is, did you remove the old version before installing the new one?

[Fintan]

I wonder if a complete removal and reinstall would help. I would like some confirmation from someone else before you tried in case that would cause other issues in your configuration.

Agreed

did you remove the old version before installing the new one?

This should have and was as far as I could see with:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

How can I check?

[richb]

Agreed



This should have and was as far as I could see with:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

How can I check?

In my case the old version stayed in the menu. I did not delete it. It does not cause problems for me. But probably a good idea to get rid of it, if it is still there.. By the way I installed 4.2 from the Libreoffice website. You can open synaptic or Muon and check the version it reports of Libreoffice.

[Fintan]

My menu shows the new vesion and so does muon. Just wondering if there were some residues hanging around and messing things up.