[SOLVED] [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Keith Bates
You wouldn't believe how simple this was to fix! I considered doing the complete removal then re-installation but what put me off that was it wanted to remove gnome for some reason. Even removing just some of the components dragged gnome with it, and I am not keen on using linux without a desk

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Michael H
When I've had stuff I MUST recover after an event like this, I find the easiest way is to make a new user account, and set the permissions on the old user account folder to either be owned by the new user, or open to the drive, depending on my mood and the distribution's built in networking. I won

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and Windows 7 EOL

2019-04-21 Thread Italo Vignoli
We will probably support Windows 7 for some time after EOL, but nothing has been decided yet. Windows 7 EOL will be at the same time of LibreOffice 6.4, and the continued support, if any, will be communicated at that time. --- Italo Vignoli it...@italovignoli.com mob +39 348 5653829 sent from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Italo Vignoli
In any case, the bug should be notified to Ubuntu, as they repackage LibreOffice (and in some cases they create specific bugs, which do not affect LibreOffice vanilla). --- Italo Vignoli it...@italovignoli.com mob +39 348 5653829 sent from mobile In data 21 aprile 2019 18:07:43 Gilles Gravier

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Gilles Gravier
Please don't spread nonesense. Ubuntu upgrades are designed to work well in the VAST majority of cases. Gilles On Sun 21 Apr 2019, 18:04 jonathon, wrote: > On 4/21/19 10:56 AM, Keith Bates wrote: > > So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally > > The only safe way

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread jonathon
On 4/21/19 10:56 AM, Keith Bates wrote: > So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally The only safe way to upgrade from one version of Ubuntu, to another, is to wipe the drive, and install the new version of Ubuntu. > Except Libre Office. Uninstall LibreOffice. Delet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Remy Gauthier
Hi, I opened a bug about this yesterday (bug 124864). I have been experiencing this since 6.2.2 on Linux Fedora, and the only possible resolution I found was to stick with using 6.2.1, downloaded from the LO site. Hopefully this will work for you as well. Rémy. Le dimanche 21 avril 2019 à 20:56

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and Windows 7 EOL

2019-04-21 Thread Thane K. Sherrington
Will LibreOffice continue to support Windows 7 after MS ends support for it on January 2020?  If so, how long is the planned support going to continue? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-u

[libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Keith Bates
Hi all So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally easy, no dramas upgrade was far from ideal. After several hours of fiddling, my tech expert son found some obscure gnome settings got wrecked, and once we trawled through various log files and found the  offendin