During today’s update, it said some liboidb has to be installed, but Lo has to be uninstalled for this. I gave OK. It uninstalled LO and installed that package
After update, I tried to install LO from HaikuDepot
It now says no provider for liboidb >3.5…something
I am without LO now…
The main problem was wrong library version provided by the libiodbc package, this was fixed a few days back, also turned out that the redland library (needed for LO) didn’t need that package anyway, so that dependency was removed to fix this. Happy writing
Today, again I tried to install LO from haiku depot. It said it will install some redland package first. I said OK. Later, it downloaded LO files…for a long time, ‘installing’ message appeared at the bottom left corner. waited an hour…installation did not complete.
Haiku depot says pending, LO not displayed under "Applications’
Any further suggestions will be taken gladly
LibreOffice disappeared on my system too.
I installed it on the command line
with pkgman install libre office
and it reappeared.
I checked it three times afterwards,
once it acted rather weird and it froze,
but now it works well.
By the way, it’s strange how fast libre office was installed!
On GNU/Linux systems it takes a few minutes.
On Haiku it only took a few seconds!?!?
Most probably because after it disappeared, its packages were kept in one of the “state_2023_04_[…]” directories under “packages/administrative/”. After the dependency issue got resolved, pkgman was able to reinstalled from there (instead of re-downloading, as those files actually matched the ones in the repos.
Besides that… Haiku only needs to download/install one file, while on most Linux, installing a package implies unpacking it, possibly creating LOTS of files (that can take a while, even if the files are small, but plenty).
I think people should pay a bit more attention when updating their systems. Both pkgman and HaikuDepot will clearly show if something is about to be uninstalled (for example) before it does.
If you see something “weird”, like… “This will remove LibreOffice”… you can simply cancel the update, and try it later.
Just my 20 pesos (inflation goes brrr).
At least you still had the .hpkg files available, makling the issue, eh… less of an issue
I update my system once a week ,
using the SoftwareUpdater.
It just shows the packages that will be installed and I just press yes.
No suspect message had appeared though.