"sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-gtk " ????

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#1

There was a posting in askubuntu.com about issues with LibreOffice.

It is quoted below.

What is the "libreoffice-gtk"?
When I do a purge before I install LO, I use . . . "purge libreoffice?" not "libreoffice-gtk".
So what is the "gtk" part of the root command?

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I've been updating my ubuntu 12.10 and this problem still occurred.
Here is what I've done and it worked for me:

sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-gtk

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk

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#2

Hi :slight_smile:
I dunno but gtk stuff tends to be gui front-end for Gnome and other Desktop
Environments. So you prolly don't need it for Kubuntu nor for other
distros using KDE and headless-mode prolly doesn't need it either.

I suspect that the gtk stuff is the integration stuff that used to have to
be installed separately for the right-click menus to have more relevant
options and to make the window decorations look more like the rest of your
OS.

Sorry I couldn't help!
Regards from
a Tom :slight_smile:

#3

I suspect that the gtk stuff is the integration stuff that used to have to
be installed separately for the right-click menus to have more relevant
options and to make the window decorations look more like the rest of your
OS.

​It's exactly that: it provides gtk look&feel. This change the visuals for
menu, borders, buttons, etc. to match your current gtk theme. It might also
provide a few different dialog boxes (especially the open/save dialogs).
There's also a libreoffice-kde package, that does the same but for KDE. If
none of these package are available, LibreOffice will still work but really
look out of place on most DE.​

#4

Well I wonder why the askubuntu posting wanted only the "gtk" purged and reinstalled instead of the whole upgrades from one version of LO to the newest version?

I normally do a replace instead of a purge, but this last time I did the purge from 5.2.x to 5.3.5. Having some issues with "phantom" buttons/dialogs not removing itself from the window after it is closed. But will see if it goes away, or if it only happens when I have a large amount of colored tiles in the Writer/Web document.