LibreOffice

[Spik#]

Snowhog

Bugger I did everything you have said with no luck
Logout try to open a document I get the same

Animation works it shows in the task bar then nothing
have you got any idea what is going on if so what is it?
please explain I would like to know what is wrong so I can learn.

Thanks for your help, please keep it coming Mate

[Snowhog]

Still as your non-root logged in user, open a console and purge Libreoffice again:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-core

Afterwards, type:

sudo updatedb

Then remove the libreoffice configuration files in your non-root users /home directory:

rm -r .config/libreoffice

Then again,

sudo updatedb

Close the console and perform a logout and reboot. Log back in as your non-root user.

If you have Muon Package Manager installed, use it to select libreoffice-core for installation. If you don't have Muon Package Manager installed, do so from the console:

sudo apt-get install muon

[Spik#]

Mate
You will not believe me if I tell you.

It is still not working

The animation starts it appears in the taskbar and nothing opens up

I have a brain teaser here Have you got any more ideas

[Snowhog]

Have you tried clicking on the taskbar icon when it appears? You might have Libreoffice flagged to open minimized.

[Spik#]

Snowhog

Thanks but it did not worked. I've tried to click on it while it is in the taskbar
it will not let me to click on it.

It disappears as it tries to open.

I have gone to alt+ F2 with no luck as well, I have tried to open it in the terminal

And I get this
spik3@spik3-R580:~$ libreoffice
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: liblpsolve55.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
spik3@spik3-R580:~$

does this helps?

[Snowhog]

I'm truly at a lose. After a full removal --purge and removal of the configuration directory, a reinstall should have been fully functional.

liblpsolve55.so should be located at /usr/lib/lp_solve/liblpsolve55.so

[Spik#]

Snowhog

I had a look in /usr/lib/lp_solve/liblpsolve55.so and there is
nothing in there.

Got any more ideas

[Snowhog]

Install package lp-solve.

sudo apt-get install lp-solve

[NoWorries]

You never said anything regarding your repositories. I always like to get the latest version and you will find the ppa for this here. The version that I have installed is 4.2.5.2. I use Muon Package Manager to add the ppa or, alternately you can use the command line approach. If you use Muon, select Settings > Configure Software Sources, enter your password and then select Other Software > Add... Enter the ppa line, eg ppa:libreoffice/ppa and click OK. Muon will then do an update and should list a number of packages to install.

This has always worked for me, except when I tried to install the most recent version 4.3 which failed to start with an input/output error. So I totally removed everything using sudo apt-get purge libreoffice* and then I used muon to remove any remnants associated with libreoffice.

I am beginning to wonder if you could start with a fresh copy by purging libreoffice* followed by removing all packages related to libreoffice with muon. After this you could remove all deb packages by sudo apt-get clean and then install libreoffice. This would download fresh copies of libreoffice files.

NoWorries

[Spik#]

Hi Mate

Sorry for being a hassle I've tried what you have suggested
and I get this

spik3@spik3-R580:~$ sudo apt-get install lp-solve[sudo] password for spik3:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
lp-solve is already the newest version.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
spik3@spik3-R580:~$ libreoffice
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: liblpsolve55.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
spik3@spik3-R580:~$

Is there anymore suggestions that you or anyone can help Please?

[Spik#]

At the moment guy's
I'm doing another purge of libreoffice and do a clean and in the terminal I got this

Removing libreoffice-common (1:4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share/prereg/’: No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share/’: No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/program/’: No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice’: No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice’: No such file or directory
Purging configuration files for libreoffice-common (1:4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share/config’: No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share’: No such file or directory
Removing libreoffice-style-tango (1:4.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...

Just wondering how come I did not have these directory?

at the moment I doing a complete install of office
any more idea will be heaps appreciated

spik#

[jlittle]

Is there anymore suggestions that you or anyone can help Please?

The lp-solve package provides /usr/lib/lp_solve/liblpsolve55.so, the library in error (you might like to check that you have indeed got it and the permissions on it and /usr/lib/lp_solve are ok).
So, the question is, why isn't it found. Do you have any environment variables that affect library look up set? I know of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD.

There was a packaging problem with this symptom a year ago, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1206107. The workaround then was to install libreoffice-calc.

[Spik#]

hi Guy's
What is going on? Or what am I doing wrong?
none of the libre will open, this is what I am getting in the terminal

spik3@spik3-R580:~$ libreoffice
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: liblpsolve55.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
spik3@spik3-R580:~$ libreoffice calc
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: liblpsolve55.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
spik3@spik3-R580:~$ libreoffice writer
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: liblpsolve55.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
spik3@spik3-R580:~$ liberoffice maths
No command 'liberoffice' found, did you mean:
Command 'libreoffice' from package 'libreoffice-common' (main)
liberoffice: command not found
spik3@spik3-R580:~$ libreoffice maths
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: liblpsolve55.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
spik3@spik3-R580:~$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde

can anyone please help this is not getting funny anymore

[NoWorries]

I checked my system and I have liblpsolve55.so in /usr/lib/lp_solve. I tried to remove lp-solve but I got the message that it could not be marked for installation or upgrade. I gather that you have no file in the directory /usr/lib/lp_solve and your system considers that lp-solve is installed. If this is the case, then something is seriously wrong with your installation. From what I can tell, apt-get is not detecting any errors. Just for the heck of it you could try:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install

If this doesn't do anything, and your system does not have the file liblpsolve55.so, I would reinstall kubuntu as this is not a very long procedure, if you recorded what packages you installed, providing you have separate root and home partitions.

[Spik#]

Thanks Mate
I will give it a go
I will get back to you what I've done
Cheers
Spik#