How to launch old LibreOffice in AppImage?

nogajun · September 23, 2020, 12:05pm

OS: Debian GNU/Linux Sid(amd64)
AppImage: LibreOffice-4.3.7.2.standard-x86_64.AppImage

I needed old LibreOffice and downloaded AppImage.

https://libreoffice.soluzioniopen.com/old-versions/

I set the execution permissions on AppImage and got the following error when I tried to launch it.

$ ./LibreOffice-4.3.7.2.standard-x86_64.AppImage 
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx

OpenJDK is installed.

$ LANG=C dpkg-query -l *jre*
ii  default-jre                   2:1.11-72    amd64        Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime
ii  default-jre-headless          2:1.11-72    amd64        Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime (headless)
ii  openjdk-11-jre:amd64          11.0.8+10-1  amd64        OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
ii  openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 11.0.8+10-1  amd64        OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)
ii  openjdk-11-jre-zero:amd64     11.0.8+10-1  amd64        Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using Zero
ii  openjdk-8-jre:amd64           8u265-b01-1  amd64        OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
ii  openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64  8u265-b01-1  amd64        OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)

How can I launch LibreOffice AppImage?

igorlius · September 23, 2020, 12:43pm

I think the problem could be glibc related … but what do you get when exeucting

./LibreOffice-4.3.7.2.standard-x86_64.AppImage -h

Segfault or does the help ext get printed ?

Grantler · September 23, 2020, 2:08pm

If java is not needed a simple installation in parallel could do…

nogajun · September 25, 2020, 5:08am

Segfault or does the help ext get printed ?

No segmentation fault and Help is displayed. here was no option to disable Java.

If java is not needed a simple installation in parallel could do…

Hmm… AppImage is can’t be use?

nogajun · September 25, 2020, 5:11am

I edited ＄HOME/.config/libreoffice/4.3.7.2/user/config/javasettings_Linux_X86_64.xml, but it did not start.

igorlius · September 25, 2020, 1:07pm

You could try extracting the AppImage and maybe executing the the bins directly. At least mabe you will get a more meaningful error

./LibreOffice-4.3.7.2.standard-x86_64.AppImage  --appimage-extract

That should create a folder squashfs-root, in which you will find the AppImage content.

the bins are located under squashfs/opt/