Bug#1051968: libreoffice: Libreoffice on MATE doesn't install libreoffice-gnome
severity 1051968 wishlist
reassign 1051968 tasksel
retitle 1051968 please make task-mate-desktop install libreoffice-gnome
thanks
Hi,
Am 15.09.23 um 04:33 schrieb Charles Boling:
Package: libreoffice
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
(Sorry if wrong pkg; had trouble finding dependency
Also, yes, I used the term "patch" very loosely.)
Yes, there is no patch here anyway. :)
Problem:
Fresh debian installation includes LibreOffice, but when installed in the MATE
environment, it installs the libreoffice-gtk package but does NOT install
the libreoffice-gnome package.
You mean you have chosen "MATE Desktop Environment" in the installer in
the "task selection" (a.k.a tasksel)?
How I noticed:
LO was unable to open e.g. "sftp://"; files.
If opened from LO, it was as if you hit ESC instead of ENTER on open dialog
-- nothing happened.
If opened from file browser (Caja), it launched LO which then immediately exited.
How I fixed:
Manually installed libreoffice-gnome
See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=933271. One
can always install libreoffice-gnome, too.
The "libreoffice" package suggests libreoffice-gnome |
libreoffice-plasma but indeed the MATE task just does
Package: task-mate-desktop
Source: tasksel
Version: 3.73
Installed-Size: 9
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: tasksel (= 3.73), task-desktop, mate-desktop-environment, lightdm
Recommends: gimp, synaptic, libreoffice-writer, libreoffice-calc,
libreoffice-impress, libreoffice-help-en-us, mythes-en-us,
hunspell-en-us, hyphen-en-us, network-manager-gnome, orca, libreoffice-gtk3
Description-en: MATE
This task package is used to install the Debian desktop, featuring
the MATE desktop environment, and with other packages that Debian users
expect to have available on the desktop.
Description-md5: 11325f7ae02031b05c57d0b5e0d607c0
Section: tasks
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tasksel/task-mate-desktop_3.73_all.deb
Size: 1200
MD5sum: 97a791eba1c4446482466b6a218490f0
SHA256: 90db4b36c0ef18f8fad2cc878173efb78f1e3fee36bb33b7bda3abd69ce65380
But that (understandably, leaving out Base etc) bypasses the
"libreoffice" metapackage (except that that suggests is not shown when
being installed by the installer anyway...)
Maybe we definitely should add it in task-mate-desktop... I prepared a
merge request for tasksel...
I don't know where to go to tweak this in the distro, but I suspect you do!
That would be tasksel.
Regards,
Rene
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