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I've just downloaded and installed libreoffice 3.5.3 for my distro,
and now when I go to open the base, or the writer, or anything,
nothing happens. It doesnt show anything, no splash screen and nothing
showing in 'top'. Whats gone wrong please? why doesnt it open for me?
Sharon.
Try running it through Terminal's command line to see if it says
anything?
Running it through the cli gives no error reports at all, it just
hangs there until you close it.
However, I have been able to start it as root/superuser from the cli,
by ..... sudo /opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.bin ...... but
whatever I try I cant get it to run as user.
Any ideas as to how to get it running please?
Thanks
Sharon.
Hi Sharon,
This is how I always upgrade LibreOffice in Ubuntu:
For the 64 Bit Version:
Download LibO_3.5.3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz from The Document Foundation to the desktop.
Right click on it and extract it to the desktop. This will give you the folder LibO_3.5.3rc2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US
Run the following terminal commands to install it:
1. sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.*
2. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibO_3.5.3rc2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/*.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibO_3.5.3rc2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.5-debian-menus_3.5.3-2_all.deb
4. In Ubuntu with Unity, I then put new icons in the Launcher Bar for the portions I want there.
I've upgraded 4 computers from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 so far, without any issues at all. I've used this method for years with both OpenOffice, and now LibreOffice.
Don
Maybe need to delete/rename old LO profile if you used LO before? Or
maybe access problem?
Hi 
I guess you know of Hagar's guide
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
or at least the idea :) Ant, you are doing great stuff here.
Regards from
Tom
Yep, now if I could get my own LO to run on this old Windows XP Pro. SP3
box!! I see Java released a new JRE version. I will try that! But I am
going to uninstall old one and see if LO even run without Java. 
Right, I've now downloaded it with the torrent files to see if I had a
corrupt downloaded file and then installed it more or less the same as
you Don. And it still doesn’t open up and neither do I have any menu
options or icons. That gives a total of 3 downloads and installs, and
it still fails 
Despondent
Sharon.
HI
Is there much free-space on the partition you are installing too, and in the /home? You haven't over-filled the drive with music and wastebin-contents have you?
Regards from
Tom
Tom.
I have 28gbs spare on the hard drive, and that includes the trash can
which has a few things in it yet to be deleted fully. Its all one big
partition, / and /home all together so there is not an overfilled
drive.
If someone can tell me where to find my libreoffice profile then I'll
delete it because thats where the problem lies I think. If it can be
run as root or sudo but not as /user then that sounds like the users
profile is corrupted somehow. So if some kind soul can point it out to
me then i'll delete it. And I still haven't got any menu items for it.
Other than that , if it still doesn’t work then its back to 3.5.2 for
me as I need it for various things and its got to work, and that
version does work.
Thanks
Sharon.
Hi
Hagar's guide shows where the UserProfle is
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
Sorry, my earlier post was confusing!
Regards from
Tom
Tom.
Thanks for that, but there is NO .libreoffice folder. So the profile
must be elsewhere, probably in ......../opt/libreoffice3.5/ .......
somewhere. If you tell me what file I'm looking out for I can locate
it.
Thanks
Sharon.
Hi
Sorry. In 3.5.x branch it became
.config/libreoffice
i think. I tried to make a note of it on that page but it's probably not clear even if i did.
Regards from
Tom
Hi
Ahh, sorry the UserProfile is the user's settings and configurations and other stuff that might be unique to them so each user should have one in /home/their-name somewhere. I'm pretty sure it's in .config
Regards from
Tom
Tom.
Right, config found and renamed and then i ......
/opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.bin
............. and it creates a new user profile, appears in 'top' for
a short while before disappearing and doesn’t get any further.
But at least we know its not the profile now.
Thanks
Sharon.
Hi
So, i think it's bug-report time
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
don't worry if you can't give all the info asked for there. Just post the report and worry about details later. They might be able to help you get details you can't find yourself. It is better to give them the info up-front if possible but it's not always possible (nor relevant).
Apols and regards from
Tom
Hi Sharon,
I wish I had some experience here to draw upon, but I don't. I've never had any issues with an OpenOffice or LibreOffice install failing to work, and I've had many of them over the years.. I see in your other posts that you tired checking the user profile and that isn't the issue. Obviously if you can run it in root, it isn't a dependency issue. I know Ubuntu is derived from Debian, but I've never seen an installed Debian system or used one. This seems like maybe it is an issue the Debian support folks could possibly have an answer for.
Don
One thing I keep forgetting is that the .libreoffice folder is hidden [for Ubuntu 10.04]. So I always have to remind myself to click on the "show hidden files" viewing option. I tend to regularly backup my .libreoffice, .thunderbird, and .mozilla folders so I can have good working ones if something goes bad during an upgrade process or something.
I ALWAYS save the .libreoffice folder before upgrading to the next version.
FYI thanks to Tom Davies' e-mailed suggestions (I thought we were still
conversing on the public mailing list):
1. Uninstalling Java did not fix the problem. Installing u32 did not
help which is not a surprise.
2. Portable LibreOffice v3.4.5 and v3.5.2 without installed LO did
crashed too. HOWEVER, portable v3.3.4 worked. I believe this is close to
OpenOffice v3.3.0 I had installed and working before I tried LO. Were
there major changes after v3.3.(0/4) or something for LO?
3. I reported my issue to as a bug at
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49499 ...
Hopefully, someone (a developer) else can help.
You shouldn't be using soffice.bin, use
'/opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice' insead - soffice is a shell script
file. You can view using:
$ cat /opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice
...