[ubuntu-za] Help with LibreOffice

[Neil Oosthuizen]

On 29 June 2016 at 13:05, Mohamed Yusuff Kikia <moki at mweb.co.za> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I need some help with libreoffice version 5 on Ubuntu 14.04 lts. It worked
> perfectly well yesterday and today it doesn't. I have completely
> uninstalled it an reinstalled. Everything works except for calc. When I try
> to open a spreadsheet/excel file it greys out and freezes. At the bottom
> left hand corner it says "calculating". It just hangs there. Now when I run
> Writer or Impress, they work fine, but after trying to run Calc, they too
> do not open.I have to re-boot to get Write and Impress to work. If I reboot
> and try and run Calc from the command line (using localc), I get the
> following error messages:
>
> ** (process:2962): WARNING **: require a newer gtk than 3.10 for theme
> expectations
> (soffice:2962): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large
>
> I hesitate to upgrade to a later version of gtk as I read somewhere that
> it does not work well with the unity desktop.
>
> Regards and thanks in advance for any help
>
>
Hi Mohamed,

Perhaps some more info could assist the troubleshooting process.  AFAIK
Ubuntu 14.04 does not ship with version 5 of LibreOffice, how did you add
it to your system (if by PPA, which PPA)?  I have found a similar error to
yours from another user that installed LibreOffice 5 in Xubuntu 14.04 so
yours is not an isolated case.  I would also not recommend upgrading GTK as
that would break more than it will fix.

Quick solution to get and use LibreOffice 5 would be to upgrade to Ubuntu
16.04 off course.



Regards
Neil
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