I downgraded from libreoffice 5.4.x to go back to 5.1.x in the repositories now I can't run any libreoffice program. How can I fix this?
What I did to delete libreoffice 5.4.x
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice* sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get clean I then rebooted the machine Then to reinstall 5.1.x I ran the command.
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-common libreoffice When I click on the icon the flash screen comes on but none of the libreoffice applications will launch.
When I try and launch writer from the terminal using the command libreoffice --writer
I get this error message
~$ libreoffice --writer terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): IconThemeInfo::FileNameToThemeId() called with invalid filename. Fatal exception: Signal 6 Stack: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x394e0)[0x7f996c2004e0] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x39873)[0x7f996c200873] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x399a8)[0x7f996c2009a8] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x354b0)[0x7f996be324b0] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x38)[0x7f996be32428] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x16a)[0x7f996be3402a] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(_ZN9__gnu_cxx27__verbose_terminate_handlerEv+0x16d)[0x7f9964e9484d] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0x8d6b6)[0x7f9964e926b6] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0x8d701)[0x7f9964e92701] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0x8d919)[0x7f9964e92919] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN3vcl13IconThemeInfo17FileNameToThemeIdERKN3rtl8OUStringE+0x13c)[0x7f996ebb340c] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN3vcl13IconThemeInfoC2ERKN3rtl8OUStringE+0x70)[0x7f996ebb3690] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN3vcl16IconThemeScanner18AddIconThemeByPathERKN3rtl8OUStringE+0x5b)[0x7f996ebb427b] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN3vcl16IconThemeScanner26ScanDirectoryForIconThemesERKN3rtl8OUStringE+0x13b)[0x7f996ebb446b] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN3vcl16IconThemeScanner6CreateERKN3rtl8OUStringE+0x63)[0x7f996ebb4553] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2790fdc)[0x7f996ebaefdc] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN13StyleSettingsC1Ev+0x46)[0x7f996ebaf496] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x27914f6)[0x7f996ebaf4f6] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN11AllSettingsC1Ev+0x46)[0x7f996ebaf676] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN11Application12InitSettingsEP10ImplSVData+0x1e)[0x7f996ebb5fde] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN11Application11GetSettingsEv+0x2d)[0x7f996ebb608d] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_gtklo.so(+0x3b502)[0x7f995807f502] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_Z7InitVCLv+0x292)[0x7f996ebbadc2] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x279d9f6)[0x7f996ebbb9f6] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_Z6SVMainv+0x22)[0x7f996ebbbb02] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(soffice_main+0xa2)[0x7f996dcb3212] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin[0x4006eb] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7f996be1d830] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin[0x400729] lp@jt-laptop:~$ I'm using: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial 2 Answers
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-common
installed only a few packages but not the applications (Base, Calc, Writer, ...) of the LibreOffice project. What you want to do is
sudo apt-get install libreoffice1
For a strange reason the problem looks to be caused by openjdk-8-jre-headless not sure why but here's everything I did to get it to work.
1) un-install files
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice* sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get clean 2) Find and un-install jdk
sudo dpkg --list | grep -i jdk sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove openjdk-8-jre-headless 3) Install libreoffice
sudo apt-get install libreoffice 
