Can anyone tell me what is wrong with LibreOffice?

[Joel Rees]

Yay.

If you still have the install image you downloaded, you could check the
checksums to see if something untoward happened in the download.

2017/10/07 10:48 "Owen Thomas" <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> http://reiisi.blogspot.com/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
>>>>>
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