Lenovo Thinkpad T500 laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit.
I've been playing about with scripts and crontab to start LibreOffice in order to display a message then close it after a while. This worked fine all day but now LibreOffice won't work at all, even from the applications menu. I have tried updating and re-installing LO and the menu items are displayed, but none of the LO facilities will start. The appropriate tab in the task bar appears for a few seconds then disappears.
Assistance would be very much appreciated.
[UPDATE]
I have:
- removed LibreOffice via the terminal (but is still listed in the Software Centre as installed and shown in the Applications menu)
- un-installed all the LO packages from the Software centre
- re-installed LO via the terminal (still marked as unistalled in the Software Centre)
- re-installed the Writer package in the Software Centre
But still none of the LO software will start.
[UPDATE 2]
Partial success. My machine has two software sources:
- SystemTools/Administration/Ubuntu Software Centre
- System Tools/Software
I've been using the first one but after finding the second one I was able to install LibreOffice 6 and remove the original links from the Applications menu.
So I now have a working Office suite although this doesn't explain how I screwed up the original installation by just playing with cron.
So: fixed for now, though I doubt that this post has helped anyone else and I am still keen to hear of any opinions/ideas.