SL 10 XFCE 64bit
same issue here, but it looks like we are not alone.
An arcane issue, but fixable.
First,
uninstall libreoffice completely.
then
(As your user, not root)
Second,
download the source code from
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?ty ... sion=4.0.2 get all first three packages (main + dictionaries + help)
Third,
extract the directories into a place on your home folder
(in my case it was
/home/*****/Progs/libreoffice-4.0.2.1 )
and then put dictionaries and help into this root:
/home/tri/Progs/libreoffice-4.0.2.1/dictionaries
/home/tri/Progs/libreoffice-4.0.2.1/helpcontent2
Fourth,
./autogen.sh --without-junit
I ran this as root - I should not have, but it was 3am and no pizza
cd /home/tri/Progs/libreoffice-4.0.2.1
./autogen.sh --without-junit
(...I discovered the without-junit later on, but you should be able to
start with that...)
Fourth again
./autogen.sh --without-junit
and again
./autogen.sh --without-junit
and again
./autogen.sh --without-junit
as Autogen finds missing dependencies,
(mostly stuff like automake and autoconf [and ¨gstplugins gnome-vfs¨ !?!] )
You can use Rigo to grab all these things, but be sure be sure to
use the autoconf (and other) wrappers so you can have multiple versions
(rather blurry now, 12hours later, but I seem to recall needing at least
two different aclocal versions, probably my fault)
After it finally gets past the last exceptions you run
make
(!!! - it needs a _decent_ internet connection for more downloads ! you have been warned !)
and then hopefully
make install
(not me, I still had housekeeping to do, something to do with spellcheckerselection.txt)
but after all that and generous quantities of fresh coffee it all works.
This is just a hack workaround,
but posted in case someone else (unlikely) needs video in the libreoffice products.
goodluck
So, I took some risk and enabled Sabayon Limbo repos. I upgraded to LO 3.6.2.2. And it works well. But, when I try to embedd a video (.avi) or sound (.mp3), it says that this file format is not supported. I have some LO Impress and Writer files (which I embedded videos before), and they can be opened but videos doesn't work, I can only see a white blank screen when the video page comes. These files work well in another distro with the same LO version, even in Windows 7. I made some search and in LO forum it says that in Linux side, it can play anything Gstreamer can play. So, at first I thought some Gstreamer codecs needed, so I installed everything related with Gstreamer. But, still it doesn't work. I must urgently solve this problem.