Re: can't get LibreOffice to run on XP Pro SP3

On 3/31/21 3:28 PM, Paul wrote:
> VanguardLH wrote:
>> Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> James Wobanwu wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have an old Toshiba Pentium II with XP Pro SP3 and I am trying to 
>>>> get LibreOffice to run on it.  ...
>>> Worth a try, if it's an SSE2 problem.
>>
>> Can't be an SSEv2 problem.  SSEv1 wasn't available until Pentium 3.  The
>> OP said he has Pentium 2.
>>
>> No SSE in Pentium 2 which launched in 1997.
>> SSEv1 introduced to Pentium 3 which launched in 1999.
>> SSEv2 introduced to Pentuim 4 which launched in 2000.
>>
>> The OP has a Pentium 2.  No SSE for Pentium 2.  In trying to find if LO
>> had/has an SSE requirement, I found:
>>
>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LOWN/5#LibreOffice_4.3_is_not_usable_on_.3C_SSE2_CPU 
>>
>>
>> and
>>
>> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82430
>>   LO 4.3.0 for Windows crashes on CPUs that do not support SSE2:   
>> Application Error soffice.bin, version 4.3.0.4, module sal3.dll,   
>> version 4.3.0.4, address 0x000268d5.
>>
>> That spurred me to go to their Bugzilla ticket site, and did a search on
>> "SSE2", which only gave me the above ticket.  A search on "SSE" (with
>> and without double quotes) yielded over 500 hits.  Bugzilla's search
>> sucks.  No word search (i.e., no whitepaced string search, no word
>> search, no /b for word boundary search, no selection of search range,
>> like just in Subject and NOT in body).
>>
>> Once LO started using Microsoft's Visual Studio, SSE became required.
>> From:
>>
>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows#Install_Visual_Studio 
>>
>>
>> Visual Studio was used starting in LO v4.4 which confirms the above
>> articles.  LO also does not include the C++ runtimes in its installs, so
>> the OP will have to install Visual C++ 2015 runtime lib.
>>
>> The OP only considered the system requirements for LO regarding
>> supported operating systems.  He didn't check the hardware requirements.
>> His old Pentium 2 laptop won't run a *LOT* of programs because SSEv1
>> became a requirement by many, and that dictates having a Pentium 3 at a
>> minimum, and many jumped quickly when SSEv2 showed up a year later, and
>> that dictates having a Pentium 4 at a minimum.  The OP's old Pentium 2
>> doesn't have the instruction set required by a lot of software that came
>> out after 2000.  LibreOffice didn't fork from OpenOffice until 2010, so
>> it is highly likely that LO always had the SSE hardware requirement on
>> the Windows platform.
> 
> I wouldn't think there'd be enough RAM on the machine for LO.
> 
> I would open Task Manager and watch the memory graph.
> 
> LO also likes OpenGL, rather than DirectX.
> 
> I tried a copy of StarOffice, but it appears to be nagware.
> 
> *******
> 
> There's always something like Gnuplot.
> 
> https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/gnuplot/5.2.6
> 
>     gp526-win32-mingw_2.exe    26 MB    2019-01-26
>     gnuplot.pdf                 2 MB    2019-01-02
> 
> *******
> 
> My first PC, shipped with 64MB. But, it would also
> accept 256MB sticks. I wouldn't want to be shopping
> for RAM today though, because you'd be left with
> used stuff. Maybe a local computer recycler would have
> a bucket of SODIMMs from the era.
> 
>     Paul

I gave up trying to get LO running.  Oddly enough, OpenOffice would with 
no problems, but I wanted LO because it's on my Ubuntu PC's so there'd 
be compatibility.  However, since I'm only using that slow PII for 
logging to a text file, I can always just copy that file to a thumb 
drive and process the CSV in LO on one of my other laptops. For all that 
the laptop is doing at the current time, it was pointless even thinking 
about replacing it or upgrading memory.  And it only has 64MB Ram too.