bad links on Libreoffice download page

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#1

Greetings!

By a quick of odd luck, I went to the LO site to get an installation module yesterday, the day 5.0.0 came out. I'm now running 5.0.0.5. I loaded it to get away from 4.4.2 (may have that wrong), because I was having Calc crash at odd times.

I'm having similar problems with 5.0.0.5. So now I'm wanting what I would call a developmental version. Before I report a bug I want to see if a more recent version has the problem solved.

I'm now at this page: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/?version=5.0.0

What a mess! We have "fresh" (huh? is this a salad bar? :slight_smile: ) and "main". But then on the right sidebar we have "fresh" and "still". Does this actually make sense to anyone? Certainly not to me. Standard language works, because we all know what it means. Getting creative at the wrong place is a great way to raise a dust cloud, and that's what's happened, it seems.

There's more: Yesterday I downloaded the "main" installer. Is that the "still" version? MAJOR HINT TO THE SITE WEBMASTER: The HTML "title" attribute is damned handy for adding a description to a link. Had you done that, I would not be wondering what in all creation "still" means. Or "main", for that matter.

OK, now that I'm warmed up, here's my present problem. Since I'm trying to get a "fresher" version than 5.0.0.5, I click the download link in the "Download / LibreOffice Fresh" line at the top of the page. Nothing happens. So I click the "LibreOffice Fresh" link in the list in the right-sidebar. Same exciting result.

The gods are not with me today. Probably having problems with their spreadsheet also.

REQUEST: Aside from possibly fixing the problems I've detailed above, can someone please give me a link to a 32-bit *.deb download of "fresh".

I do like what I've seen of Calc in 5.x so far. If I could get it to stop crashing, I'd like it even more!

Thanks for any help offered!

Tom

#2

@Tom,

Very simple.

All LibreOffice archive builds (including the latest 5.0.0.5 release) in
the packaging of your choice:

    http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/

or, the daily build of master development build, the code that will next
become the 5.1.0 release:

    http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/

As to the Web page and the Still vs. Fresh notation, that is a manifestation
of having a time based release. Please trust me when I say its been well
hashed out as to nomenclature...

Anyhow,

4.3.7.2 -- just rolled out from Still
4.4.5.2 -- just became Still, it was Fresh
5.0.0.5 -- just became Fresh, it was the Development build

And there are currently no "development" release candidates. Next in that
category will be 5.0.1.x (~week of Aug 30th).

You can view the time based release schedule here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan it should help to
understand the juggernaut that LibreOffice development pace truly is.

Stuart

#3

@Tom,

Forgot to mention that LibreOffice is bundled in two parts. The "main"
installer that is packaged for your OS of choice. It will conform to the
localization of the Desktop Environment and OS (unless a custom install is
done).

In addition, the "main" installer can be augmented with an "off-line" help
package that is language specific. It is an optional installation, but is
helpful when you have no Internet connection to use the on-line Web/Wiki
help.

The content of the two help systems is the same. But the local "off-line"
can be a bit more responsive, and also provides content for "Extended tips"
when that option is set from Tools -> Options -> General panel.

Stuart

#4

I see there's now a 64 bit Windows version available. Does the 32 bit
version have to be uninstalled first?

#5

Hi,
I'm experiencing some problems; installed LO5 yesterday (windows) and it was working fine; earlier this morning I had some docs open and it still seemed fine. All documents have now been closed, but I can't seem to start up LO5 any more.I've tried: double clicking a file in windows explorer
double-clicking a file saved to desktop (I suspect thi is exactly the same thing)
double-clicking LO5 startup icon on desktop
selecting LO5 from start menu

- all to no avail. I checked the task manager in case it was somehow running in an "invisible" mode (such things do happen - but no, it's not running at all and I can't get it to run.
I will try a reboot at some stage - can't do that just yet - but does anyone have any idea what might be preventing LO from running? Anyone else experienced anything similar?
thanks,/Gary

#6

Just checked task manager again. Although LO was not listed under the applications tag, it seems there were *dozens* of soffice.bin and soffice.exe entries under the "processes" tag. deleting on of them suddenly opened up a whole load of document windows on my desktop - and also terminated the majority of those processes in the TM. I suspect this is something that shouldn't happen, but I'm not sure how I arrived at this state.
/Gary

#7

Yeah, this happens sometimes, it is not new to 5...

You got a 'zombie' process for each time you tried to launch it without
success.

So, the first time you try to launch it and nothing happens, don't keep
doing it, check for the zombie process right away, it will save you some
time.

This happens with other windows apps too, dunno why...

#8

Thanks for the tip, I'll remember that!
/G.