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dreamquartz
December 23rd, 2012, 04:21 AM
Was checking my system for odd things, and came across the following:
Dash Home -> Installed shows an generic icon with the text: LibreOffice 3.5 Math.
This was strange, because I am running: LO 3.6.4.3. on Ubuntu 12.04.
The icon LibreOffice 3.6 Math did not show. It does run from the Suite, however.

After some looking into it, I found that under /opt, there was still a folder with the name: libreoffice3.5.
I ran:


sudo apt-get purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get remove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get clean

None of the above removed the folder, and the generic icon.
So, I ran: sudo nautilus, and removed it manually.
Interesting result: nothing changed. The icon was still there.
After some research on the internet, Ask Ubuntu gave a potential solution, being: unity --reset. I logged in under gnome, and in the terminal I typed: unity --reset. It did not do what I expected, because it appeared to be hanging. After 10 minutes I killed the process.


Ok, me thinking simple. Re-install the LO 3.5 version, and remove it again. Hopefully that works, so I re-installed LO 3.5.7.
After the installation, the Dash Home -> Installed showed a proper icon for the LO 3.5 Math, and it also worked.
Ok, now, remove it again, using the same list as above, starting with purging.
Big :confused::cry::sad:. EVERYTHING IS THE SAME AS BEFORE.
The generic icon is back.


Me not understand anymore.


Can anyone shed some light on this one?


Dream

Hylas de Niall
December 23rd, 2012, 08:43 AM
I always use


sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-core

It seems to work okay for me :)

HTH

dreamquartz
December 23rd, 2012, 09:36 AM
I always use


sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-coreIt seems to work okay for me :)

HTH

Interestingly the core is not installed?
I use the debs from libreoffice.org directly to install.

Dream

dreamquartz
January 6th, 2013, 06:49 AM
BUMP!

Please help.