#1 2018-05-19 21:09:37

redrobo66

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Registered: 2018-03-18

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Installing WPS Office - a workaround

Not everyone prefers Libre Office over the alternatives. Perhaps like me you need to run MS Office at work and want something that looks and feels extremely close to MS office but will run on Linux. Enter WPS - a full featured office suite with excellent MS office compatibility. It's closed source proprietary garbage of course....but sometimes needs must

You need to install from a .deb file, however as a post installation task the installer will attempt to access your desktop menu and make entries. It cannot do this with the static OB menu and therefore the installation, while giving a perfectly functional office suite will constantly report errors in the terminal and Synaptic every time you attempt to install/remove applications or perform updates. A solution:

*Using Synaptic, install the XFCE Whisker menu - this will also install the XFCE panel and a few light dependencies.

*As the Whisker menu completes its install, dpkg will automatically finish the until now pending and incomplete WPS install, because it will see an installed dynamic menu.

*Without running anything or rebooting, immediately uninstall the Whisker menu and panel.

*In the terminal, $ apt autoremove. This will clean up the remaining dependencies. This is optional - the few XFCE dependencies will do no harm.

No more nagging dpkg errors.

Last edited by redrobo66 (2018-05-23 19:07:16)

DeepDayze

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From: In Linux Land

Registered: 2017-05-28

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Re: Installing WPS Office - a workaround

Proprietary applications seem to bring about some rather bad packaging practices and I've even noticed that with the Skype deb. I've used WPS Office on my mobile device and it seems to be not too shabby but not a total replacement for LO. I can open just about any Office document I could throw at the latest LO so WPS may be redundant IMHO.

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Caluser2000

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Registered: 2017-12-23

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Re: Installing WPS Office - a workaround

WPS isn't too bad a set of programs and has a modern look in feel. I installed it on my Devuan box because that is what my wifes Windows 10 system came with. Its certainly a bit speedier than L.O. on startup.

Last edited by Caluser2000 (2018-05-23 02:43:09)