Upgrade to LibreOffice 4.2!

[richb]

My menu shows the new vesion and so does muon. Just wondering if there were some residues hanging around and messing things up.

That could very well be the case. An option would be with LibreOfiice closed rename the user folder, /home/yourusername/.config/libreoffice/4/user, to back it up. Open Libreoffice and it will create a new user profile.

[Fintan]

Of course!! Why didn't I think of that I'll try that now.

[Tom_ZeCat]

No problem. it is difficult at times in the written word to get the intent, and I need my second cup of coffee.

I wonder if a complete removal and reinstall would help. I would like some confirmation from someone else before you tried in case that would cause other issues in your configuration. The other thought is, did you remove the old version before installing the new one?

Hi, Rich B. Your feedback is always appreciated in threads. Sorry things were frustrating for you or if there was any kind of misunderstanding.

To answer your question, I did not uninstall and then install. I just did the install per the instructions and everything works fine. However, with other software a full reinstall has worked for me. Do you have the Snyaptic Package Manager? It has an option named "complete removal." I used that when I had messed up the settings of Audacity and then I reinstalled from scratch. That did the trick with that app at least.

[Fintan]

Renaming user didn't work either.

[richb]

Hi, Rich B. Your feedback is always appreciated in threads. Sorry things were frustrating for you or if there was any kind of misunderstanding.

To answer your question, I did not uninstall and then install. I just did the install per the instructions and everything works fine. However, with other software a full reinstall has worked for me. Do you have the Snyaptic Package Manager? It has an option named "complete removal." I used that when I had messed up the settings of Audacity and then I reinstalled from scratch. That did the trick with that app at least.

Just grumpy in the morning and clearly a misunderstanding on my part.
Yes, I always use complete removal/ However that will not remove any configuration files sitting in your home directory as hidden files.

Fintan. Depleted all the arrows in my quiver.

[Tom_ZeCat]

I'm about ready to revert to the older version of Libre Office. I'll start a new document in writer then when I go to save to a thumb drive it won't open it up and it times out, never letting me save it. I know the thumb drive works because I've saved to it with Kate.

Edit: It finally saved, but it took an eternity. It does that the first time I save a document. I'll hit save and try to surf the file dialogue to get the the thumb drive and folder I want, but it's ultra slow every step of the way. With the old version of the program, it would just crash the first time, but I could get around that if I started a document with junk first and saved, let it crash, and then did it again.

Both ways suck. I'm frustrated.

[woodsmoke]

If you upgraded the L.O. it may show "one version" in the backports, but the O.S. shows another.

woodEASILYconfusedsmoke

[Fintan]

Ok, well I was excited at first, but after using this version I had to do the following to get it to function properly:
- remove libreOffice 4.2 completely (I used synaptic for this)
- Download the .deb version and language packe from libreoffice:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download
- unpack the tar files
- go to the unpacked folders, libreoffice main first, then the language packs, open a terminal in dolphin and do:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

- If needed get rid of the libreoffice icons in your panel and replace them with the new ones from your application launcher of choice.

Now everything works just fine.

I did read this at the bottom of the link I provided in Comment 3:

Imho using dist-upgrade to force the installation of the most recent LibreOffice is a bad idea. Unless you are on the newest version of Ubuntu, using dist-upgrade will also update the entire OS. Additionally setting the autoYes flag here will give the user no chance to notice the huge amount of changes this command can do to the system and abort before it actually starts to apply them. In the worst case this can lead to an unstable OS.

A safer choice would be to do a normal upgrade:
"sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade"
Followed by a manual installation of the packages that were held back by the system:
"sudo apt-get install -y ... "

I quess I should have read this first

[richb]

Glad you got it going. That is exactly how I installed it.

[Tom_ZeCat]

Ok, well I was excited at first, but after using this version I had to do the following to get it to function properly:
- remove libreOffice 4.2 completely (I used synaptic for this)
- Download the .deb version and language packe from libreoffice:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download
- unpack the tar files
- go to the unpacked folders, libreoffice main first, then the language packs, open a terminal in dolphin and do:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

- If needed get rid of the libreoffice icons in your panel and replace them with the new ones from your application launcher of choice.

Now everything works just fine.

I did read this at the bottom of the link I provided in Comment 3:


I quess I should have read this first

Sounds like a nightmare. So far it's running fine for me except for the first time I go to save a file in Writer. It's taking a LLLLOOONNNNNGGGGGG time for the file to save for some reason. After that everything works fine. I don't use much in Calc. I only use it to add up bills.