[Slackbuilds-users] LibreOffice and libreoffice-langpack

[Niels Horn]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Larry Hajali <larryhaja at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed libreoffice and also had a corresponding
> openoffice.org installation as well.  I noticed that after installing
> libreoffice that opening any openoffice.org application opened
> libreoffice instead.  After removing openoffice.org from my system I
> saw these lines from removepkg.
>
> Removing package /var/log/packages/openoffice.org-3.2.1_en_US-i586-1_SBo...
> Removing files:
>  --> /usr/bin/sbase (symlink) was found in another package. Skipping.
>  --> /usr/bin/scalc (symlink) was found in another package. Skipping.
>  --> /usr/bin/sdraw (symlink) was found in another package. Skipping.
>  --> /usr/bin/simpress (symlink) was found in another package. Skipping.
>  --> /usr/bin/smath (symlink) was found in another package. Skipping.
>  --> /usr/bin/soffice (symlink) was found in another package. Skipping.
>  --> /usr/bin/spadmin (symlink) was found in another package. Skipping.
>  --> /usr/bin/swriter (symlink) was found in another package. Skipping.
>  --> /usr/bin/unopkg (symlink) was found in another package. Skipping.
>
> You might want to rename the symlinks with changes in their
> corresponding .desktop items so there isn't a conflict.  Or at least
> say that libreoffice conflicts with openoffice.org in the README.
>
> Regards,
> Larry
>

Hi Larry,

Yes, the two packages "conflict" in this sense. But as LibreOffice is
a "fork" of OpenOffice, this is to be expected.
I don't think too many people will have both office suites installed
at the same time :)

I did investigate this when I adapted the SlackBuild and I think it
can be solved by changing the .desktop files in OpenOffice, that point
to the symlinks instead of the real executable files, like the
LibreOffice .desktop files do.

I might put a small note in the README for the next submission...

--
Niels