LibreOffice

[Spik#]

Hi Guy's
Please help me thanks, up until the other day I had Office (libreoffice) working
now some thing has gone wrong. I've tried about everything that I can think of
I've -purge. and then install. update. and dis-upgrade, and still can not get libreoffice
working, The programs start to load and stop. I did a check and got this

/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: liblpsolve55.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can anyone please help
Cheers

[rjj]

Did you try removing only: libreoffice-kde?
A while ago there were problems with the kde integration.
Version 1:4.2.4.0ubuntu2 works well. The earlier version had problems

rjj

[Spik#]

rjj
Thanks for the reply just I've just done what you have suggested
with no luck still the same problem
It still will not load up

[rjj]

Found this
https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1206107
That bug is a year old and fixed. Maybe you can research from there?

rjj




rjj

[Snowhog]

Install or reinstall package lp-solve.

[Spik#]

Thanks Snowhog
I have just done what you have suggested with no luck!
has anyone got any other suggestions will help greatly

Spik#

[Snowhog]

Try installing/reinstalling:

libreoffice-base-core
libreoffice-common

[Spik#]

Snowhog

Thanks for your reply as a newbie could you help me
by how do I do it
Do I use apt-get reinstall libreoffice-base-core && libreoffice-common ?

Spik#

[Snowhog]

Open a console and type:

sudo apt-get update

This refreshes the package cache.

Then type:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-common

If both are already installed you'll get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libreoffice-base-core is already the newest version.
libreoffice-common is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

In this case, type:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-common

If only one is already installed then that one would be reinstalled and the other installed. Example:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libreoffice-base-core && sudo apt-get install libreoffice-common

Make sense?

[Spik#]

Snowhog

It all makes sense and I have done what you have suggested
However when I try to open a doc All seams well the animation comes up
the writer appears in the task bar and then nothing, Bugger.

This is what is in the terminal

root@spik3-R580:/# apt-get install libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libreoffice-base-core is already the newest version.
libreoffice-common is already the newest version.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
root@spik3-R580:/# sudo apt-get install --reinstall libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 2 to reinstall, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/21.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 299207 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2_all.deb ...
Unpacking libreoffice-common (1:4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2) over (1:4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libreoffice-base-core_1%3a4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libreoffice-base-core (1:4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2) over (1:4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme (3.10.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Setting up libreoffice-common (1:4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libreoffice-base-core (1:4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
root@spik3-R580:/#

Mate have you got any other suggestions?

Spik#

[Snowhog]

Your post indicates you are running 'as root', at least, in the console. You didn't activate the root login account, did you?

[Spik#]

Snowhog

Yes I did. was that wrong? if so why?

[Snowhog]

Logout and log in to your normal user account and try Libreoffice.

[Spik#]

Mate

I have done that as well same thing
Animation on the screen as to start an in the task bar
and then nothing happens, try to open a doc with
office and animation starts and in the taskbar then nothing
opens? any more ideas will be great appreciated

[Snowhog]

Now that you are logged in as your normal, not-root user, make sure that everything in your user's /home directory is owned by you, and not root. Open a console and type:

sudo chown -R username:username *

Replace username with your login account name. Example: If your regular, not-root user login name is John, then you would type:

sudo chown -R John:John *

I would then do the install/reinstall of the previously cited packages.