[clug] IBM Works for OS/2 Word Processor file

[rodney peters]

Bryan,

I'm not confident those packages you installed are the import filters. 
The latter might go under different names in Debian et al.  The package 
in openSUSE is named as I stated.  My installation has a bunch of .xsi 
files but no jre in that package.

Rod


On 18/03/18 17:16, Bryan Kilgallin via linux wrote:
> Thanks, Rodney:
>
>> LibreOffice is fairly capable of reading other formats.  Are you 
>> using the latest (6.0.2) and have you installed the extension for 
>> optional import filters ?
>
> I had been using LibreOffice version 5.2. So I used Ubuntu Software to 
> install LibreOffice 6.0.2.1.
>
> "README_en_-US" said this.
> {LibreOffice requires a recent version of Java Runtime Environment 
> (JRE) for full functionality. JRE is not part of the LibreOffice 
> installation package, it should be installed separately.}
> So I searched Synaptic Package Manager for "Java Runtime Environment". 
> In the resulting list, four packages showed the Ubuntu "Package is 
> supported" icon. So I installed those:
>     gcj-5-jre;
>     gcj-5-jre-headless;
>     openjdk-8-dbg; and
>     openjdk-8-jre.
>
> As you suggested, I searched Synaptic Package Manager for "LibreOffice 
> import filters". Listing the following:
>     libjodconverter-java; and
>     libjodconverter-java-doc.
> And I installed those.
>
> Next I used LibreOffice version 6.0.2.1.0+ to open one of my old 
> ".LWP" files. This still showed the garbage!
>
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