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Re: Arrgghh! Libreoffice woes!



Problem solved, and it was ........................... <drum roll please!>
PEBKAC !

I had got so many instances of it open  as I'd tried various things that it just hung on me, a quick 'pkill oosplash' sorted it out, and I was able to regain control of libreoffice, but it required two reinstalls, and several people on #debian on freenode on IRC. Thanks to all, I've learnt from the experience, and it wont happen again, now I know how to get out of it that is! :)

Thanks again to all folk
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Sharon.


On 26 December 2012 16:01, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
On 12/26/12 6:03 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Yesterday i installed libreoffice 3.6.4.3 alongside Debian libreoffice
> 3.5.4. today neither worked except via root, so i uninstalled both
> libreoffices with synaptic, and then re-installed Debian libreoffice
> with apt-get. but it does not open from the menu. how can i get it
> working again please?
>
> right, /config/libreoffice is renamed, but user is still unable to
> open it, whereas root can open it very easily. the command is '
> /usr/bin/libreoffice --writer' and nothing happens with user it just
> sits and does nowt, where as root it opens. any ideas please folks?
>
> My goal is to get the Debian libreoffice working, and dump the source
> libreoffice. Is this possible please?
>

You might try creating a new user and seeing if that user can open it,
just to make sure it's not related to settings for existing users.

I would use apt-get to purge the removal of libreoffice, then manually
remove any leftover libreoffice directories I could find, then reinstall
libreoffice.

After that, I'm out of ideas, and like you, would be asking on this list.

--
Kent


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