libre-writer problem

[Colin Law]

On 18 November 2014 18:19, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/2014 07:58 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 18 November 2014 13:27, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Folks I get the following message when I try to open a *doc  file from an
>>> e-mail message:
>>>
>>> loading component library failed:
>>> file:///usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libswlo.so.
>>>
>>> I looked on the net and the suggested fix for this message was reinstall
>>> libre-office, and libre-writer, so I did that. I still get the message
>>> what
>>> else did I miss?
>>>
>>> The remainder of LibreOffice appears to run fine.
>>
>>
>> Is that the complete error message?
>
>
>  Component cannot be loaded, possibly broken or incomplete installation.
> Full error message:
>
>  Precedes the message above
>>
>>
>> Does writer function ok if you are not opening a file from an email?
>>
>
>  I just tried to open a file that was created by writer earlier, it also
> displays the same message. I tried to create a new document, it fails as
> well... It appears that writer is broken??

First do
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If that shows no error messages then try moving the file away
sudo  mv /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libswlo.so
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libswlo.so.old
and reinstall libreoffice-writer (which provides that file I believe,
at least it does on 14.10)
sudo apt-get install  --reinstall libreoffice-writer
then check the file is back and try writer again.

Colin