Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice help menu

Hi :)
The user-profile contains all the Extensions/plugins/addons in one folder.
It is usually one of them that causes any weird problems that 'shouldn't'
be happening (but are).  However it also contains galleries, libraries and
configurations any of which may have gone wonky to produce a weird and
unusual error.

So renaming the user-profile is like a "magic pill" that cures a wide
variety of completely unrelated errors.  If you have the time and patience
to track down the specific problem you may well find it relates to one file
in the user-profile that got hit by cosmic rays or some other unlikely
event.  This can then allow you to fix a problem with surgical precision.
However the specific problem is very unlikely to arise again and if you are
unlucky enough to have another problem, even one that is very similar, then
it could easily be one of the other files in the user-profile.  So the
"nuke 'em 'till they glow" solution is usually a 'better' approach if you
just want the problem fixed without spending ages over it.

Of course if renaming the user-profile doesn't fix a particular problem
then you can always rename it to overwrite the fresh new auto-generated
one. If it did work then you can start on a process of elimination such as
copying half the user-profile's folders back in until something gets broken
again - or you could just stick with the fresh new profile that does work.


Yes, uninstalling and reinstalling is a very Windowsy answer but it's
beginning to sound as  though the repos got updated with a newer version of
LibreOffice and for some weird unknown reason the normal upgrades route
somehow hasn't upgraded  all the LibreOffice components but has upgraded
some of them.  This is, of course, impossible but has happened on other odd
occasions.  Perhaps it was a timing issue, or perhaps the problem will
magically sort itself out in a few days when upgrades finally work.
However you could force the issue by using the Windowsy answer.

Regards from
Tom :)





On 25 January 2017 at 13:06, Philip Jackson <philip.jackson@nordnet.fr>
wrote:

> On 24/01/17 12:17, Dave Howorth wrote:
>
> > That was the first thing I tried. There is no such package. Neither is
> > there in Ubuntu from what Philip says.
>
> > >  When i have installed LibreOffice in
> > > Ubuntu in the past (when else right??) i'm sure the help-files were
> > > all selected by default, automatically.  This behaviour may well have
> > > been changed either temporarily or deliberately for many different
> > > reasons.
> Just for the record, I was speaking about Ubuntu 1404LTS. That is why I
> had to refresh my memory of how I got away from the LO website page that
> appeared so unhelpful.
>
> The later version of Ubuntu, 1604 LTS, does indeed have the internal
> help files installed in the distro supplied version.
> But as Tom and others have remarked in the past, the internal help files
> often appear incorrect and out of date.
>
> Philip
>
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