Openoffice-bin no ebuilds to satisfy ncurses:5

[kris]

Hi
Today I tried to install openoffice-bin and found the error, an earlier version ncurses is needed:

emerge -av openoffice-bin

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "sys-libs/ncurses:5/5".
(dependency required by "app-office/openoffice-bin-4.1.6::desktop-kit" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "openoffice-bin" [argument])

emerge -pv sys-libs/ncurses

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/ncurses-6.2:0/6::core-kit  USE="cxx gpm threads unicode -abi_riscv_lp64 -abi_riscv_lp64d -ada -debug -doc -minimal -profile -static-libs -test -tinfo -trace" 0 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB

 

[cardinal]

 Use libreoffice-bin instead.

[kris]

I wanted but I'm using QT5.

emerge -pv libreoffice-bin
.......
Total: 167 packages (161 new, 6 in new slots), Size of downloads: 1 574 662 KiB

 

[cardinal]

Libreoffice{-bin} needs qt5

Openoffice-bin  no qt5.

Openoffice-bin on funtoo requires configuring a local overlay,adding sys-libs/ncurses-compat-6.2 from gentoo, installing layman, enabling guru overlay for openoffice-bin-4.1.9 

Bug report:

Emerge for Openoffice-bin-4.1.6 depends on removed ncurses:5

Edited February 22, 2021 by cardinal
Add bug report link.

[kris]

In general, I have three options, all bad:
1. install libreoffice with the entire gnome library
2. try to look for a solution to problems with wps-office installation
3. wade in openoffice a local overlay, layman, etc.

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