Libere Office not working

[paulravin]

Hi, I have just installed ubuntu 15 on an acer travel mate, when I try and open office I get this message:

The application cannot be started.
User installation could not be completed.

I un installed and re installed it and am getting the same message.

Help!!!

[paulravin]

Any ideas? Install open office instead?

[ruzekle]

How are you installing it?

Make sure you also do apt-get purge after you remove it.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/231562/what-is-the-difference-between-apt-get-purge-and-apt-get-remove

[paulravin]

I have been installing it with commands in terminal. Is that the best way?

[paulravin]

Surely there must be a way to get a basic word program working, every other time I have installed ubuntu it just works.

[Vladlenin5000]

First things first...

I don't understand how you could have ended in such situation therefore I suspect there were something else you aren't telling us.
Why?
Because the basic LO - Writer, Spreadsheet, Presentation - is always installed by default in standard Ubuntu (other flavors like Lubuntu have other office tools by default).

So, the first question is what version have you installed. You say "Ubuntu 15" and I assume Ubuntu 15.04 but is it the standard Ubuntu or some variant? If any other variant that might not come with LO by default, what was the exact command you used?

[vasa1]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/613941/need-help-installing-libreoffice-4-4-on-ubuntu-15-04 may be relevant?

[paulravin]

Hi,

I installed ubuntu 12 and upgraded through to 15.04. No other variants just all done through the updat tool. Yes it is very frustrating, it is a standard feature and does not work. To be honest I forget what commands I used, I just searched for un install Liberoffice.

Liberoffice did appear to uninstall and seemed to re install again with the same problem persisting.

[howefield]

Try renaming the libreoffice folder in....


~/.config/libreoffice

May not work but worth such a quick and simple go.

[paulravin]

This works!! My issue is solved, thank you so much all who posted - it makes using ubuntu possible, my alternative was windows 10......... So I re named the folder manually as per http://askubuntu.com/questions/613941/need-help-installing-libreoffice-4-4-on-ubuntu-15-04

(http://askubuntu.com/questions/613941/need-help-installing-libreoffice-4-4-on-ubuntu-15-04)