I was asking elsewhere whether to install Haiku on a 32 bit machine, or 64. I will want to use LibreOffice, and I am now wondering whether the 32 bit version is working yet. If not, that will dictate going the 64 bit route.
32 bit version is working.
I would recommend not making LibreOffice dependent on Java; or at the very least, donāt make the package depend on a JRE (this is the way it is on Windows; itāll use the JRE if you request it but it wonāt otherwise.)
Further, Base does not need a JRE for normal operation; it only needs it if you want to use certain obscure Oracle database formats. So unless anyone actually needs these, donāt even bother trying to set it up, itās a pain to do even on Linux.
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Of course, that was what I had in mind. Creating another package with LO database formats and make it depend on JRE.
āitās a pain to do even on Linux.ā
I can second that. I canāt get it to work in Linux. But it wasnāt presented as an option. It refused to work at all unless JRE was installed. Same in Windows.
Thatās good news. Thank you.
Exellent news, BTW it would be great to obtain an āofficial approvalā by LO team:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
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āExtended tipsā can be activated in the LibreOffice Writer, but only temporarily.
Unfortunately, users with a miserable short -term memory, like me, unfortunately need that.
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Does printing work ?
So far I havenāt tried to print. When LibreOffice for Haiku is ready to import complex pages from MS Office (Writer), Iāll try!
It works amazingly well, but OpenOffice does the import āout of the boxā almost perfectly! Maybe itās because of s.g. āPreferencesā? - which I didnāt do though.
Hello @cocobean,
you wrote few days ago on IRC Channel that you have successfully build LibreOffice 7.4.6.2 with working spelling, grammar and thesaurus:
Have you any plans to upload it to Haiku Depot?
A working spell checking would be great! 
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ILibreOffice 7.4.6.2 and 7.5.2.2 are built for Haiku R1B4.
I posted LibreOffice 7.3.7.2 for the next update to Haiku Depot.
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Libre office version 24 was released some weeks backā¦wonder when this will be available in haiku R1B4
One doesnāt simply āuploadā things into the depot.
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That was fastā¦thanksā¦really appreciate
libreoffice is THE main thing for meā¦lot of workā¦
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Not yet in thereposā¦!!
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In process. I want to update Qt6 to 6.7.0. before updating LibreOffice.
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Recently, QT updated to 6.6ā¦on haikuā¦
Day before yesterday, on my void-linux, LO updated to 24.2.2.2.1
Today, on my void-linux, LO updated to 24.2.2.2.2
But Voidlinux has only QT5
Is QT6.7 a necessity for upgrading LO to higher versions?
No but, since on Haiku LO is built with the Qt backend, it seems a good idea to finish updating it before. I donāt know about Void but most linux distros are using Gtk backend.