Struggle to install LibreOffice on the PinePhone

[Peter Gamma]

Thank you very much for your help and for sharing your experience, Wibble.

I started also a thread in the LibreOffice forum about the PinePhone and LibreOffice:

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-ins...hone/78115

I did not test to install LibreOffice on Mobian as you did. I reinstalled the following posh image:

pine64-pinephone-20210810-phosh-keyboard.img

but I experienced the same failure as described above. Then I installed the following postmarkedOS image, it is only two days old:

20220601-0442-postmarketOS-v21.12-phosh-17-pine64-pinephone-installer.img

I don t know how I came across the first image, but I thought it should work with the PinePhone keyboard I already have.

I was asked to set a password during installation. After the reboot I was asked for the passkey, 147147 did not work, there is no option to type in a password.

Reinstallation required. The second time I choose only a passcode, and it worked.

Also the installation of LibreOffice worked, and the phone was rebootable .


After a first short test I can say:


- the Pinephone keyboard works with LibreOffice


- unfortunately, the keyboard has no arrow down keys for the menus, but they can be accessed by shortcuts


- then I tried to install a Bluetooth mouse


- my Polar OH1 heart rate sensor as well as my Stryd running foot pod where discovered immediately, but the Elecom Cap Clip mouse only after 5 more minutes, but then it worked.


- I tried the last time also to install a Bluetooth keybord, which was not stable when I used the first mentioned installation image. This time I didn t. But since I have the PinePhone keyboard it is not necessary.


- The Menus are large for the phone screen, but with the mouse it worked to use those during a first test. I was at least able to save a file .