Can't launch libre office anymore

[reggler]

Hi,

All of a sudden, I realized todqay that my Libre office write and calc don't launch anymore... I tried around and now all I'm left with is a white Libre Office icon and when I retry installing writer or calc with Muon Software Center, all I get is a message saying "The package could not be initialized, your configuration may be broken"... how do I get this ironed out?

Thanks!

[Snowhog]

Try re-installing Libre Office from Muon Package Manager (not Muon Software Center) or from the command line.

[reggler]

Try re-installing Libre Office from Muon Package Manager (not Muon Software Center) or from the command line.

How would I do that, I only get these oprtions:

$ muon --help
Usage: muon [Qt-options] [KDE-options] 

A package manager

Generic options:
  --help                    Show help about options
  --help-qt                 Show Qt specific options
  --help-kde                Show KDE specific options
  --help-all                Show all options
  --author                  Show author information
  -v, --version             Show version information
  --license                 Show license information
  --                        End of options
$

[Snowhog]

Muon Package Manager is in the K Menu in System. However, launching it from a console, you just type: muon and press enter.

If you want to try re-installing from the console, just type:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

If your are told that it is already installed, then type:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libreoffice

[reggler]

Muon Package Manager is in the K Menu in System. However, launching it from a console, you just type: muon and press enter.

If you want to try re-installing from the console, just type:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

If your are told that it is already installed, then type:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libreoffice

Hi,

I get this instead:

$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice
sudo: unable to resolve host regDesktopHome
[sudo] password for reg: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libreoffice : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:3.6.0~rc4-0ubuntu3~ppa1~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-calc but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-impress but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-draw but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-math but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-base but it is not going to be installed
               Recommends: libreoffice-gnome but it is not going to be installed or
                           libreoffice-kde but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
reg@regDesktopHome:~$

[Snowhog]

You have to have some 'third-party' repositories that you added, or you downloaded and installed a .deb package that was not available from the standard repositories that conflicted with Libre Office and had it removed. Until we know more about your repositories and what you have installed, this conflict can't be resolved.

[reggler]

My sources.list looks like this:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#############################################################
################### OFFICIAL UBUNTU REPOS ###################
#############################################################

###### Ubuntu Main Repos
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse 
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse 

###### Ubuntu Update Repos
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted universe multiverse 
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse 
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted universe multiverse 
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse 

###### Ubuntu Partner Repo
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner

###### Ubuntu Extras Repo
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main

##############################################################
##################### UNOFFICIAL  REPOS ######################
##############################################################

###### 3rd Party Binary Repos

#### Gimp - https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/gimp
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 614C4B38
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu precise main

#### Google Linux Software Repositories - http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/
## Run this command: wget -q https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub -O- | sudo apt-key add -
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

#### Kubuntu Updates - https://edge.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8AC93F7A
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu precise main 

#### LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 1378B444
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu precise main

#### VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org
## Run this command: wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib

#### Wine - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa/
## Run this command:  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F9CB8DB0
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu precise main


####### 3rd Party Source Repos

#### Gimp (Source) - https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/gimp
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 614C4B38
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu precise main

#### Kubuntu Updates (Source) - https://edge.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8AC93F7A
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu precise main 

#### LibreOffice (Source) - http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 1378B444
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu precise main

#### Wine (Source) - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa/
## Run this command:  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F9CB8DB0

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu precise main

deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free 
$

[Snowhog]

Let's try to narrow down 'when' this might have occurred. When was the last time that you used Libre Office? Since that time, what applications have you installed or uninstalled?

[reggler]

Hah!,
That's a good question...I can't really tell but I've ran updates a few times since (with apt-get)..
Is there no othwer way of finding out what's causing this issue?

[SecretCode]

Have you run

sudo apt-get install -f

?

That's my usual reaction when faced with unmet dependencies.

[reggler]

I had tried a sudo apt-get install -f already but nothing got installed, just tried again,. nothing...

[SecretCode]

 libreoffice : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:3.6.0~rc4-0ubuntu3~ppa1~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-calc but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-impress but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-draw but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-math but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-base but it is not going to be installed
               Recommends: libreoffice-gnome but it is not going to be installed or
                           libreoffice-kde but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
reg@regDesktopHome:~$

Hmm. Try explicitly installing the dependencies (shouldn't help but this has sorted out some such issues for me):

sudo apt-get install  libreoffice libreoffice-core libreoffice-writer libreoffice-calc libreoffice-impress libreoffice-draw libreoffice-math libreoffice-base

[Snowhog]

That isn't going to help the OP. He/she has a real conflict between installed packages and the dependencies with libreoffice:

you have held broken packages

[Shimapan]

Your best bet is to install Synaptic:
sudo apt-get install synaptic

Launch Synaptic, enter your password and reload your repository list (left-most icon).
Synaptic will tell you at the very bottom how many packages are broken.
Now, in the list with all the packages, click on the header for the left-most row, which has all the boxes below it. There are three types of boxes:
white - not installed
green - installed
red - broken (those are the packages we're interested in!)

Scroll down until you find the broken packages with a red box on the left. Uninstalling those packages should fix your problems (right-click on every package for the install/uninstall menu). Then click on the "Apply" icon above to go ahead with the uninstalls.

After you've uninstalled all broken packages and it says "0 broken packages" at the bottom, enter "libre" in the search bar at the top. Select the "libreoffice" package, right-click on it and "Install". It will tell you what it's going to install. Then click on the "Apply" button at the top again to go ahead with the install.

[SteveRiley]

This...

#### LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 1378B444
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu precise main

#### LibreOffice (Source) - http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 1378B444
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu precise main

is most likely the cause of your problem. According to the stats, that package in the PPA is failing to build at the moment. Plus, it might have some dependency problems with the remainder of LibreOffice in the main repository (I can't check because I don't have a Precise box with which to investigate).

Comment those two PPAs, perform an apt-get update, and then reinstall LibreOffice.