Can anyone tell me what is wrong with LibreOffice?

[Owen Thomas]

That seems to have worked.

I think the problem was that my installation of 16.04 (I reinstalled from
the USB I created for this process a few months ago) has a pre-bundled
LibraOffice. It automatically installed itself when I reinstalled Ubuntu.
The software installer was functioning on the new OS installation, so I
removed it and deleted the .config/libreoffice directory. Before I removed
the directory, I noticed that the directory had a single sub-directory
named 4.

I reinstalled LibreOffice Writer only, and notice that the L&F is
considerably different to what I was expecting. The main thing now is that
I have squiggly red lines appear under color and not colour and an
Australian English dictionary is sitting nicely inside the Text Language
list of my Spelling: English (Australia) dialogue box. Hence, I conclude
that there was something odd about where I sourced the image on the USB.

I was sure I got it from the Ubuntu download page, but all's well that ends
well I suppose.

  Owen.


On 7 October 2017 at 11:14, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will install LibreOffice through the software centre after the Ubuntu
> installation has completed, and not as part of the installation of Ubuntu.
>
> On 7 October 2017 at 11:10, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think there's something wrong with my Ubuntu installation and this has
>> contaminated LibreOffice. I find that the problem that prompted me to start
>> this thread is manifest even when I create another user account and log in
>> as this other user.
>>
>> When I go back to my account and try to remove LibreOffice, I cannot
>> locate LibreOffice (or, owing to the fact that nothing at all is displayed
>> in the "installed software" window pane, anything) in the Ubuntu software
>> manager.
>>
>> My conclusion here is that something really screwy has happened to my
>> Ubuntu possibly in recent weeks. I'm going to reinstall Ubuntu and see what
>> happens...
>>
>>   Owen.
>>
>> On 7 October 2017 at 09:41, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Joel.
>>>
>>> All the suggestions you and others here have been given me are great and
>>> I'm going to try them in an arbitrary order unless or until I find one that
>>> fixes the problem. I'll have a go at them after breakfast.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>   Owen.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 October 2017 at 09:27, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2017/10/07 6:50 "Owen Thomas" <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>:
>>>> >
>>>> > Well, actually, I was just reporting what I had found, accompanied by
>>>> some frustration at having a problem.
>>>> >
>>>> > It is neither my problem nor the software, nor the OS, nor the
>>>> developers, nor anyone's in particular. I don't see a conspiracy here,
>>>> however, I think you would understand that there is something of a
>>>> universal truth in the observation that like any problem you would have, I
>>>> would like to have this one fixed so I can get on with my life.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried deleting the preferences/configuration files which have
>>>> been mentioned?
>>>>
>>>> And if that didn't improve things, the suggestion about purging the
>>>> libre office install?
>>>>
>>>> Have you looked in the error logs?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Joel Rees
>>>>
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