LibreOffice Install and Use Problems

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Oliver Grawert schreef op 27-09-2016 18:35:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2016, 08:51 -0700 schrieb paulwheeler at cox.net:
>>  
>> Package info: Version: 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1  (xenial-updates)
>> 
>> 
>> Unless I am mistaken, you are the package maintainers, so it does not
>> matter what Linux system it is installed on, it should work, right?
> 
> yes, these are ubuntu packages, developed and tested against a specific
> ubuntu release, against ubuntu libraries and ubuntu installations ...
> 
> they do not get tested against mint installs, modified mint libraries
> or mint desktops ... you should talk to the mint maintainers why an
> ubuntu package does not work on your mint install.
> 
> your assumption that it does not matter which linux sytem a binary that
> was built against a specific set of dependencies of a specific distro
> runs on is wrong. it matters a lot, especially if you use  a package
> with a lot of dependencies like libreoffice.
> 
> try asking the mint guys. in case you or they can track your breakage
> down to a specific ubuntu related issue, feel free to file an ubuntu
> bug on launchpad ...

I must say I consider it unlikely that a great number of Mint users 
would have the issue also.

I have never witnessed any such issue on Mint with any package, but I 
have not used it that long.

However the error seems to indicate (or would remind one of) having run 
a software package /while being root/ using sudo instead of gksudo or 
whatever the equivalent is these days. This would typically overwrite 
user home files with root-owned equivalents and I think we are all 
familiar with that.

I furthermore doubt it is even possible, even remotely possible, that it 
would be a problem with the libreoffice packages. But Mint is so similar 
that it is also unlikely that the package itself would cause problems. 
They are just not that different I think.

However, who knows. If you cannot report it on the Linux Mint forums, 
I'm not sure there is a way to get help. Regards.