How do I delete unwanted Extensions?

Tinkerer · August 21, 2011, 12:07pm

I have somehow acquired a lot of extensions that I will never use, i.e..
Languages
Unfortunately they are all locked.
How can I remove the lock, or delete them any other way?

Tink.

Brian_Barker · August 21, 2011, 1:02pm

Extensions that are installed for all users can be removed only if you have root or administrator privileges. Log in with an appropriate account to achieve this. (Exactly how you do this depends on your operating system.)

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

Tinkerer · August 21, 2011, 1:36pm

I am the root user on a Mac 10.6.8, Libre 3.4.2
I can alter all the Preferences, I can add Extensions but I cannot unlock
these Extensions.
The list is far too long and I want to shorten it.

Tink

Regina · August 21, 2011, 1:54pm

Hi Tink,

Tinkerer schrieb:

I have somehow acquired a lot of extensions that I will never use, i.e..
Languages
Unfortunately they are all locked.
How can I remove the lock, or delete them any other way?

You have to call setup again. I have only a German UI, but you will find it surely. Choose "Ändern" (=alter) and unselect the dictionaries in "Optionale Komponenten" (=optional components) "Wörterbücher" (=dictionaries) and the unwanted languages in "Zusätzliche Sprachpakete" (=additional languagepacks).

Kind regards
Regina

krackedpress · August 21, 2011, 2:14pm

Are you able to Disable the extensions?

I know that there are many languages added into the extension list, but it would be nice to be able to not get these, when you do not ask for them. There are many people who has this issue, mostly with the Windows install. I choose custom install and still got many languages I did not ask for.

Tinkerer · August 21, 2011, 3:05pm

No luck there. I want to remove others as well, such as Java script provider
and Python script provider.
There is about twelve in all, all firmly locked.

Tink.

Tom_Davies · August 21, 2011, 3:51pm

Hi
You could always try a cheat to get the whole of LibreOffice back to default
settings. First find the pathname
Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Paths
and they should all show something like
/home/username/.libreoffice/3/blah blah

Now in your file-manager try finding that folder
... libreoffice/3
and rename it to
... libreoffice/2011-08-21

You might need to close LibreOffice after you have found the folder but just
before you rename it otherwise the OS might grumble and not do the renaming.
Keep the ... libreoffice/ folder open and reopen Writer or something. A
new folder called 3 should appear.

Hopefully that should get everything back to default settings. You can
always copy sub-folders from the ... 2011-08-21/ into the new ... 3/ in
order to regain some of your settings, galleries, extensions, fonts and so
on. Hmm, fonts might stay available actually as they tend to be system-wide
rather than per-application.

Good luck and regards from
Tom

Regina · August 21, 2011, 4:22pm

Hi Tink,

Tinkerer schrieb:

No luck there. I want to remove others as well, such as Java script provider
and Python script provider.
There is about twelve in all, all firmly locked.

If they are bundled, you will find them in the setup in "optional components" and there in "extensions".

Is there something like "quickstarter" on Mac? If yes, you need to close it before you try to uninstall an extension.

It might be, that the data base is not updated correctly. You can try to force a synchronize. In your user profile in folder extensions rename the folder "bundled" and "shared" and "cache" and restart LO, perhaps again a second time. If that doesn't help you can turn back renaming.

Kind regards
Regina

Manfred_J_Krause · August 21, 2011, 9:50pm

Hi,

I am the root user on a Mac 10.6.8, Libre 3.4.2
I can alter all the Preferences, I can add Extensions but I cannot unlock
these Extensions.
The list is far too long and I want to shorten it.

You may try an easy--and "dirty"--way (that works fine for me):

1. Create a folder extensions_bak in the directory 'share' of the LibO
program folder.
2. Move all unwanted extensions from '...\share\extensions' to
'...\share\extensions_bak' [1]
3. Start LibO
The extensions are restorable (if you move them back to '...\share\extensions').

[1] Screenshot (on Windows):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19264180/LibO/extensions_bak.png

mjk

Larry_Gusaas · August 21, 2011, 10:34pm

LibreOffice installs a bunch of unwanted extensions by default. They can't be removed by the extension manager.

To get rid of them, in Finder go to Applications/LibreOffice.app .
Right click on LibreOffice.app, then click on "Show package contents".
The extensions are in /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/share/extensions. Delete the ones you do not want.

Warning: the extensions will be back next time you update LibreOffice to a newer version. The developers think installing all these extensions by default enhance functionality and everyone should have them. They are wrong.

Andy_Brown · August 21, 2011, 10:44pm

Larry Gusaas wrote:

I am the root user on a Mac 10.6.8, Libre 3.4.2
I can alter all the Preferences, I can add Extensions but I cannot unlock
these Extensions.
The list is far too long and I want to shorten it.

LibreOffice installs a bunch of unwanted extensions by default. They
can't be removed by the extension manager.

To get rid of them, in Finder go to Applications/LibreOffice.app .
Right click on LibreOffice.app, then click on "Show package contents".
The extensions are in
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/share/extensions. Delete the ones
you do not want.

Warning: the extensions will be back next time you update LibreOffice to
a newer version. The developers think installing all these extensions by
default enhance functionality and everyone should have them. They are
wrong.

_________________________________
Larry I. Gusaas

A lot of people have said that from the beginning and no one wants to listen.

Andy

jorge1 · August 22, 2011, 12:31am

Hi

Many days ago some of us were talking about BASE and its problems. One
of you noted about "Kexi" base program that's part of Office Suite of
KDE ... as alternative of BASE.

I installed that Office suite in Fedora 15 and opened access 2003 data
base that I have. I can't probe with 2007 access data base because I
don't have an example of that.

I'm not use it a lot but it looks good. I suggest to others to test it
if have time and are interested because it would be an alternative to
BASE if it won't improve in the next time.

I have to say that the KDE complete Office suite (Included Kexi) isn't
in Ubuntu 10.04 lts repositories. I think is a recently improved program
of KDE.

I hope this post help some one though it isn't part of LO.

Regards,

Cliff_Scott1 · August 22, 2011, 12:55am

** Reply to message from Tinkerer <j_taylor18@btinternet.com> on Sun, 21 Aug
2011 06:36:14 -0700 (PDT)

I am the root user on a Mac 10.6.8, Libre 3.4.2
I can alter all the Preferences, I can add Extensions but I cannot unlock
these Extensions.
The list is far too long and I want to shorten it.

You likely need to first close LibreOffice, but basically the trick is to
manually delete the extensions where ever they are on the MAC.

In the future when doing an install, do the custom install and hunt down and
deselect the dictionaries/languages you don't want. I don't know about the
other extensions, but there is likely the option for those also.
Dictionaries/languages are listed in two lists and you need to delete them
from both lists.

Cliff

Tom_Davies · August 22, 2011, 1:55am

Hi
Kexi is the database app in Calligra. Calligra is a fork of KOffice. KOffice
gave all their remaining database devs to Calligra and dropped their version of
the database. Calligra seems very active.

Unfortunately Calligra and KOffice are really quite dependant on the K Desktop
Environment (KDE). They do have a port for Windows (and possibly Mac, i'm not
sure). Calligra have also developed a few apps that can work on mobile
platforms but that doesn't include Kexi yet.

So, the non-KDE versions of distros are going to ask for a lot of
dependencies, probably Qt libraries and stuff. You will probably need to add
the appropriate official repos.

For Ubuntu you can try
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
to install all of Kubuntu into Ubuntu but you might want to revert to your Gnome
or Unity DE at the login prompt (have a look along the bottom task-bar/panel
when you get the login prompt).

A few people are now working on Base. A couple of devs and i think 1 for
documentation (might be 2). It is a tough challenge but that makes it fun
right?
Regards from
Tom

jorge1 · August 22, 2011, 6:42am

Hi

Thank you Tom for this adicional information.

Regards,

Jorge Rodríguez

Tom_Davies · August 22, 2011, 10:00am

Hi
You are welcome. I just stumbled on that info just before reading your post. I
had heard of Kexi and Calligra before and had a quick hunt around their site and
wikipedia but just before your post i'd had to look a bit deeper. Spooky
timing!
Regards from
Tom

iplaw67 · August 22, 2011, 10:51am

Hi Cliff,

In the future when doing an install, do the custom install and hunt down and
deselect the dictionaries/languages you don't want. I don't know about the
other extensions, but there is likely the option for those also.
Dictionaries/languages are listed in two lists and you need to delete them
from both lists.

Unfortunately, you do not a choice on the Mac as to which dictionaries
to install or not - the app is a huge single package with no installer
routine, just the usual clikc on disk image then drag the app to
wherever you want it to install on your hard disk.

Alex

Tinkerer · August 22, 2011, 2:12pm

Larry

That worked a treat.
I must have a closer look at "Show Package Contents", there are a lot of
funnies lurking in there.

Many thanks, Tink.

Cliff_Scott1 · August 22, 2011, 4:52pm

** Reply to message from Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> on Mon,
22 Aug 2011 12:50:27 +0200

Hi Cliff,

>
> In the future when doing an install, do the custom install and hunt down and
> deselect the dictionaries/languages you don't want. I don't know about the
> other extensions, but there is likely the option for those also.
> Dictionaries/languages are listed in two lists and you need to delete them
> from both lists.

Unfortunately, you do not a choice on the Mac as to which dictionaries
to install or not - the app is a huge single package with no installer
routine, just the usual clikc on disk image then drag the app to
wherever you want it to install on your hard disk.

Alex

Ok. Error on my part since I don't have a MAC.

Please confirm that I understand you correctly - you are saying that there
are no install options during the install process, i.e. you have to take the
whole package as is. I find it amazing that one's hands would be tied like
that.

Cliff

Tom_Davies · August 22, 2011, 6:10pm

Hi
I think there are normally choices during install and it's possible to modify
things after install too. I was surprised to hear those choices are not
available on Macs but i guess that is something that will get worked on one day.
Regards from
Tom