Libre office issue after latest update

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Libre office has been working fine, but yesterday, I was notified that updates to Zorin was available, so I updated. Since then tried to open a spreadsheet, it triggered the "Archive manager", looking under "Office" menu, only libreoffice appears, not the individual apps. Using that when trying to open a ODS file, system claims library files are missing, and they are, some but not all. Went into software store to uninstall/reinstall, Libre office is not listed. So whats the cleanest way to purge the old ?

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I would open a terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
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Thanks, seems to have worked. And the reinstall from the store seems to be a flathub package, but haven't seen any directory issues yet like with firefox

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Issues like that are typically based on how the flatpak is configured in terms of what it's allowed to access. When Firefox can't go where it thinks it wants to, it defaults somewhere else. My guess is that since the location a user might save their open office documents could be anywhere (compared to Firefox where directories are pretty predictable other than perhaps downloads), the OpenOffice flatpak may have been built with access to more directories, and thus fails to a default rarely if ever.

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Did you check to see if there was a drop-down arrow to see if there was a Zorin apt package? Also do you have your software sources set to 'Main Server'?

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Being new to Zorin ( finally switched full time from 7 & 10 ) didn't know to check that,I only see flathub and flatpak on dropdown. As for software sources, don't think I have changed it, just added

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Firefox is always defaulting to /run/user/1000/doc/xxxx, where xxxx is a seemingly random 8 digit hexadecimal numbered directory

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You can get the .deb package from here:

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When you want install LibreOffice again, open the Terminal and type sudo apt install libreoffice libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk3

When You are only interested only on some Components like Calc or Writer, type instead of libreoffice the Package Names libreoffice-writer or libreoffice-calc

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