[PLUG] Installing LibreOffice on Slackware

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Mon Dec 31 23:32:11 UTC 2018


Cool. Downloading anything from oracle sucks.

It's as if they are actively trying to make people NOT buy their stuff.


On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 3:25 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 12/31/18 3:03 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> >   From the JDK page:
> > https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/development/jdk/
> >
> >
> *******************************************************************************
> > * YOU MUST AGREE TO ORACLE'S DOWNLOAD AGREEMENT BEFORE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD
> THE   *
> > * JDK BINARY PACKAGE FROM THEM.  THIS MEANS THAT YOU HAVE TO USE SOME
> SORT OF *
> > * WEB BROWSER, E.G. FIREFOX, TO DOWNLOAD IT. LINKS, WGET, ET AL WILL NOT
> WORK *
> >
> >
> *******************************************************************************
> >
> > Oracle blocks direct downloads with a web interface. You cannot download
> > their software directly, you gotta go through the JDK downloads area and
> > agree to their EULA crap. This link will always be broken. So do the
> thing
> > you just said
> > 1) Download the slackbuild build files "jdk.tar.gz"
> >
> > 2) Then instead of clicking the download link like all other packages,
> > click on the project homepage link
> > https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
> >
> > And download the file from there. You are looking for
> > jdk-8u192-linux-x64.tar.gz
>
> I've been to that page before, but it doesn't provide a clue as to where
> to actually get the .tar.gz file. I finally thought to search on "oracle
> jdk-8u192-linux-x64.tar.gz" which took me to this page:
>
>
> https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
>
> And there was the file, along with a simple radio button to accept the
> license agreement.
>
> Now that I have all the prerequisites I am trying to run
> libreoffice.SlackBuild. It hangs with the error message:
>
> ... well, it said it was hung, so I turned around to type this on the
> other computer. When I turned back to get the text of the error message,
> it was gone, and the process was continuing. It finished and I have
> installed LibreOffice. It works.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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