libreoffice calc is slow to load, always 8 seconds

[Frank IJskes]

Since i started using snaps for libreoffice (after upgrading to ubuntu 24lts) calc starts terribly slow. It takes 8 seconds. If i close calc and restart calc it takes again 8 seconds. It used to be least half that time, and restarting was almost instantaneous.

Some research suggests that other snap programs that experienced this and changed the algoritm for compression from xz to lzo fixed it. Maybe this is also the case here?

# lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Release: 24.04

# apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc
libreoffice-calc:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4:24.2.4-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
  Version table:
     4:24.2.4-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
     4:24.2.3-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:24.2.2-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages

# snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
<....>
libreoffice 24.2.4.2 322 latest/stable canonical** -
<....>

[Frank IJskes (frank-ijskes)]

only now find that it is a duplicate of #2027904
Except there is no mentioning of the compression algorithm in #2027904