Can only open Libre Office from SUDO command line Attention Avi Greenbury

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 00:42 +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Pongo A. Pan <pongo_pan at fastmail.us> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 20:08 +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> >
> > 
> >> Myself am not using Mint, because they provide their own
> >> customisations, while not being an Enterprise Linux distribution (I
> >> always prefer Enterprise-grade distributions).
> >
> > Which mainline Ubuntu is certainly not, much less the step-children
> > like Kubuntu, Lubuntu, etc...
> 
> Actually it is:
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/business

It is hard to tell if this link refers to the newly-announced "business
remix" or the mainline Ubuntu distribution.  In any case the mere claim
that Ubuntu in any flavor is an "Enterprise-grade distribution" doesn't
make it one.  It doesn't have the same level of support as RHEL or the
SuSE equivalent, although Canonical would like to have us believe it
does.  Canonical does not seem to have any data available on corporate
or small business adoption, so one must assume that there is little to
brag about.  It's still overwhelmingly a hobbyist thing I think, with
enough bugs to make it interesting for hobbyists and scary for business.

That said, my wife's family has been using Mint for most purposes in a
small business for several years with few problems.  Of course, the
principals are elderly people who also keep meticulous paper records in
two languages and check all calculations on an abacus. Not exactly
General Motors.

> 
> >> Try erasing all libreoffice configuration files and folders under your
> >> home directory, and rerun LibreOffice.
> >>
> > Or apt-get remove --purge libreoffice
> 
> I do not think that these two are the same. purge doesn't erase users'
> preferences/data, only system-wide configurations, like configuration
> files in /etc.

Yeah, you rite...

I don't know if the OP ever tried doing things as another user.  This
would sort out the global/per user configuration issue.

> -- 
> Ioannis Vranos
> 
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> 

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pongo pan
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