Open office not in desktop user start menu.

[Geoffrey_Arndt]

ALso, when doing an install, if my memory serves me right, there is no need to add a "custom" user, and then assign whatever rights. The "first" user added to a "buntu-based" system is by default placed in the sudoer group, and is the admin for the device. Other users added are by default "non-admin" or just plain users. It will be cleaner to fully purge OO as others have said, before installing LibreOffice from the Lubuntu Software Center (or by using something like Synaptic which should work better on Lubuntu anyway).

[Melodie]

In Windows, you have the ability to install an app for just one user, or all users. I don't have that option in Lubuntu so how do I get the OO to appear in the desktop user start menu?

Hello,

I might have not understood well but I think I understood you used the administration (aka root) account in a normal/classic graphical environment : is that so? If it is so, it is a BIG NO NO.

In Windows you have one way, which looks like an open castle with everything wide opened, even when you are away for the evening. In GNU/Linux it's the other way around:
This is where you have to get concentrated on how it is different:

In Ubuntu Linux, you are lucky as you have one password only : the one for the user, which allows gaining administration (aka root) privilege when needed.[¹]

So you need to create a user account first. The first user created can gain privilege (via sudo for commands in the terminal, and with pkexec when there are windows raising to ask for your password, but there you don't see the pkexec process directly, it's under in the system). Users created after the first one don't get admin privilege as the default. Only the first user created can provide more rights and permissions to the second and following users.

Let us know if you can perform a normal install, with a normal first user, and access to a normal user session, then use the Synaptic package manager to install Libreoffice (same as OpenOffice.org, but available in the repositories).

Do you know about the repositories? If you don't, we probably need to point you to the right documentation, this is a very important component to know about in the GNU/Linux world.

Here is a full book, in English, based on the Trusty version. There is not much difference with the 15.04, so you can use this one:
http://files.ubuntu-manual.org/manua...%20edition.pdf

if you want other versions, just choose from this page:
http://ubuntu-manual.org/downloads

[¹] (in some other distros you get to have two, one for the user and one for the admin(=root))