libreoffice 5.2 only opens as sudo

[miatawnt2b]

I've installed libreoffice 5.2 from the libreoffice ppa after first purging all libreoffice 5.1 from my ubuntu 16.04 install. After the install of 5.2, libreoffice will only open from a sudo terminal window. If I try to open it as my normal user, the oosplash screen pops up and hangs. I tried launching as myself from a command line to see if there were any error messages, but nothing at all comes up in the terminal window. Just a hanging splash screen. I've tried purging and reinstalling 5.2, chown-ing the .config/libreoffice in my home dir, as well as deleting the .config/libreoffice directory completely. Same issue.

Any thoughts as to what's happening and how I can fix it?

-J

[1fallen]

The only thing that worked for me when this happened about a year ago was to make sure everything was uninstalled

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*.*

And

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

sudo apt-get update

I think (I am Guessing) what might be going on with your setup is libreoffice-gtk not being fully removed.

sudo apt remove libreoffice-gtk

And Now

sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt install libreoffice-gtk2 libreoffice-gnome

You should now have a shiny new versions of LibreOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, et al.
Fingers Crossed