[Slackbuilds-users] (libreoffice/openoffice) /usr/libexec/slackpkg/core-functions.sh: cannot allocate memory RESOLVED

[B Watson]

On 4/20/14, nabl at hush.com <nabl at hush.com> wrote:

> It would be good if the slackpkg program handled this mistake more
> gracefully.
> The error message was misleading and had me completely stumped.

It was trying to use your libreoffice package (giant compressed binary
file) as a list of packages to install (which should be text). My 2
cents is that you're right, it should sanity-check its input (but my 2
cents are worthless due to inflation I think).