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prenex

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Registered: 2019-05-17

Posts: 32

libreoffice: Needs liborcus-0.14.so.0 but has liborcus 0.15.4-1.0

Libreoffice does not start now - see:

[prenex@prenex-laptop plan]$ libreoffice plan.xlsx 
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: liborcus-0.14.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[prenex@prenex-laptop plan]$ pacman -Ss liborcus
extra/liborcus 0.15.4-1.0 [installed]
    File import filter library for spreadsheet documents.

I tried to just symlink the newer versions as if they would be the older ones and did these symlinks:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/liborcus-0.15.so.0 /usr/lib/liborcus-0.14.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/liborcus-parser-0.15.so.0 /usr/lib/liborcus-parser-0.14.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libboost_locale.so.1.72.0 /usr/lib/libboost_locale.so.1.71.0

The other two I got because gradually it failed with similar error message referring to them too.
All three of these libs seem to be needed in an earlier version for libreoffice!
Now the app starts and fail with runtime error in a message box:

"loading component library <file:///usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/-
libsclo.so> failed.

(the "-" maybe is only there to tell the line continues as it is on a line end)

I guess it maybe really needs those older versions of the libs.

Last edited by prenex (2020-04-10 15:25:42)

prenex

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Registered: 2019-05-17

Posts: 32

Re: libreoffice: Needs liborcus-0.14.so.0 but has liborcus 0.15.4-1.0

Ah never mind... Just needed to update as someone already fixed this. I had a quite recent system but missed an update. It now works and libreoffice is newer which likely works with newer libs.

Sorry I should have updated faster but had no hdd space for the moment lol.