Libre Office Install/Remove

[paulwheeler]

The 'Synaptic Package Manager' program cannot remove ALL of LibreOffice, even when asked to do so!!!!!

I told synaptic to do a COMPLETE REMOVAL OF LIBRE OFFICE.  What I got was the LibreOffice office productivity suite (metapackage) went unchecked, but the impress, calc, draw, math, base-core, libreoffice-help-en-us, writer, core, common, and libreoffice-java-common options were still installed?????

How is this possible???????  What part of 'COMPLETE REMOVAL' did synaptic not understand???


I then went and clicked every remaining 'orphan' and told synaptic to remove completely.  Got a blizzard of warnings about 'held' packages, 'broken' packages, and other crap. I just told the program to do a COMPLETE REMOVAL. Why do I care about your 'held' or 'broken' packages????


I Tried again, and voila!  Now the prior messages solved themselves and everything I asked to be removed is unmarked.


However, the joy was short-lived, because I then discovered the libreoffice configuration file was still in the '.config' directory!!!!!

.config/libreoffice/4/user


Why? How? For what reason?



I installed this version of libreoffice: 1:4.4.3~rc2-0ubuntu1~trusty1

I am running this version of Synaptic: 0.81.2

My System: Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64-bit, Cinnamon version 2.6.13, Linux Kernel 3.16.0-38-generic, AMD Phenom II x4 810 Processor x 4 with 8GiB memory