Hi :) 1st thing worth knowing is that uninstall-reinstall does not get back to factory defaults and seldom fixes problems. it does fix things sometimes but not very often. Programs upgrade so often now that finding all your settings and configurations have been wiped just due to a reinstall would be a major pain. So instead, programs are starting to use a User Profile to keep such things safe. Renaming your User Profile is often a good way to "get back to factory defaults" https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
2nd is that LibreOffice develops so fast that it's often a good idea to install a more recent version than whatever you get given by default in most OSes. It's one of the few programs that is best to download from "upstream" and install that rather than just use your package manager to get whatever 'old' version they happen to have in their repos. 3rd is that probably the easiest way to fix this problem is to use the command-line to uninstall all LibreOffice components and then just use the package-manager to reinstall whichever is in the repos (sorry, i know that contradicts 2.) So, can you get to a command-line and try this command sudo apt-get autoremove libreoffice* you might also need to try sudo apt-get autoremove libreoffice*.* Errr, when people give advice on mailing list and in forums it's generally easier for them to show commands than to run through a series of open this and click that and in the pop-up click this tab and that button. Different distros look very different on the surface and people configure things differently or use different packages but on the command-line the same commands work the same way or else only need a tiny but obvious tweaks to work across all versions of Gnu&Linux. However, it's a good idea to be wary of following advice too quickly without checking it yourself first. Generally in forums and mailing lists other people will respond fairly quickly if they see bad advice to warn you off doing it but sometimes that might arrive too late. You can check what commands do, or at least get a "quick cheat-sheet" about a command just by adding the tag "--help" or "-h" (the "-h" is the older version and is being gradually replaced by "--help" but there are still quite a few programs that still use "-h"). Luckily if you use the 'wrong' one you still get the same quick cheat-sheet. So, you can check my suggestions by trying this on the command-line sudo --help another neat trick on the command-line is that if you press the keyboard's up-arrow then the last command you typed re-appears and you can edit that. That works even if you have just rebooted your computer or shut it down fully and then switched it on. You can go back quite a long way that way. In this case you might try pressing it just once and edit the command to say sudo apt-get --help Now you can probably see why i suggest "autoremove" rather than the "purge" that often gets suggested. Finally, you can go back to your package manager and reinstall whichever version happens to be in the distros repositories. 4th The best way, but probably not the easiest, to fix the problem is to download a more recent version from "upstream" at the LibreOffice website and follow these instructions (except use "autoremove" instead of "purge" ;) ) http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/ The download is here http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Tony Bestwick <tony.bestw...@gmail.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Monday, 24 June 2013, 10:01 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Mint 14 and Libre Office 3.6 > > >Hi, can anyone help please? > >I'm using Mint 14. It came with libre Office 3.6. Everything seemed fine >but then I could not print in landscape, so I reinstalled my printer. This >didn't help, so I deleted libre writer through the Software Manager., and >then immediately reinstalled it. > >Now, when I try and open libre writer I get a message saying it's not >supported by the operating system. > >Also, when I try and open the office suite, the calc program opens. > >Another reason I deleted libre writer and tried to reinstall is that the >spell checker did not work. > >Can anyone suggest how I can install libre writer again? > >Many thanks, > >Tony Bestwick > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
