Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice help menu

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:36:49 +1300
Mike Adams <whyodf@gmail.com> wrote:

> In between Uninstalling and Installing if you choose this route i
> would look to reset the User Profile Data as well. Information here:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile#Default_locations

This isn't Windows! I'm not reinstalling something that my distro has
installed unless I first know exactly what has gone wrong, if anything.

My personal suspicion is that this still looks like a build error.

> On 25/01/2017, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > I recommend using the Published Guides instead.  From the link i
> > gave and from the official LibreOffice website they are free to
> > download.  You can buy them from various "app stores" type of
> > places for a minimal charge and they are available as 'paper back'
> > books from the Lulu bookstore.
> >
> > As for the 'in-built' help, just forget about it - unless you are
> > prepared to put a lot of work in and give some serious help (in
> > which case please do join the Documentation Team as they always
> > need new peope.  If you just need the help sections to help figure
> > out how to do something then the Published Guides are the way
> > forwards.
> >
> > It's also beginning to sound like your whole install of LibreOffice
> > has gone a bit wonky.  If i were getting that sort of error-message
> > then i would just uninstall LibreOffice and then reinstall it.  All
> > of the settings and configurations should remain untouched so the
> > new version of LibreOffice should pick up on all those allowing you
> > to "carry on as normal".  In Ubuntu that would be something like;
> >
> > sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*
> > sudo apt-get install libreoffice
> >
> > In between those 2 lines i might "update" or check or reload my
> > repo.s by doing something like;
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> >
> > before doing the install line above just to make sure my repo.s are
> > all working properly.  openSuSE will have similar commands but just
> > replace "apt-get" with "yum" or whatever and the command to reload
> > the repos might use some other command.
> >
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> > On 24 January 2017 at 11:17, Dave Howorth <dave@howorth.org.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:05:15 +0000
> > > Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi :)
> > > > It sounds like the 'in-built' help package has not been
> > > > installed.
> > >
> > > Agreed.
>
> (trimmed)


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