[SOLVED] Unable to start the installed LibreOffice 3.5

Nikhil Parmar · #1 26th June 2012, 06:16 PM

Hello friends,
I recently installed libreoffice from the .tar file. It installaled correclty but when i click on any of the application of libreoffice(LibreOffice Writer), it doesnt start. Sometimes it shows that JavaRuntime Required.

I read the same thing in the Readme File in the libreoffice .tar file. After installing libre office Now i installed Java too but still it Doesnt start.

Help me, in correcting this problem. OR mention the command to UNINSTALL the existing LibreOffice so that i reinstall it.

Thank You.

nonamedotc · #2 26th June 2012, 09:40 PM

Libreoffice is in the fedora repository (latest version, I believe) and should be in the default install already. Even if not, you can install using yum.

Anyway, just to make sure you have java, what is the output of the following command?

Code:

rpm -qa | grep -i java

Do you have openjdk or Oracle java?

Nikhil Parmar · #3 27th June 2012, 05:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Libreoffice is in the fedora repository (latest version, I believe) and should be in the default install already. Even if not, you can install using yum.

Anyway, just to make sure you have java, what is the output of the following command?

Code:

rpm -qa | grep -i java

Do you have openjdk or Oracle java?

Sorry for late reply:
My output is :

java-1.7.0-openjdk-src-1.7.0.3-2.2.1.fc17.8.x86_64
libobasis3.5-javafilter-3.5.4-2.x86_64
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.3-2.2.1.fc17.8.x86_64
java-1.7.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.7.0.3-2.2.1.fc17.8.noarch
libobasis3.5-extension-javascript-script-provider-3.5.4-2.x86_64
tzdata-java-2012c-1.fc17.noarch
java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.3-2.2.1.fc17.8.x86_64
java-1.7.0-openjdk-demo-1.7.0.3-2.2.1.fc17.8.x86_64

nonamedotc · #4 27th June 2012, 07:26 PM

It does look like you have java installed.

Code:

 yum list libreoffice*

and from the list, you can choose and install using ..

Code:

yum install libreoffice-package

I mention this mainly because you had mentioned that you used the tarballs. While I have done that before in SL 6.2 and have not had any problems, this might actually get you a working office package ....

george_toolan · #5 28th June 2012, 10:37 AM

What's the error message when you try to start libreoffice from a terminal window?

Apparantly Fedora 16 only has libreoffice 3.4.5.2

Nikhil Parmar · #6 28th June 2012, 05:45 PM

Sorry guys still stuck. Gets following error when executing "libreoffice3.5" command, and i m using Fedora 17
$libreoffice3.5
/opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

nonamedotc · #7 28th June 2012, 06:01 PM

Code:

yum provides libpng12.so.0
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
2:libpng-compat-1.5.10-1.fc17.i686 : Temporary backwards-compatibility copy of old libpng
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Provides    : libpng12.so.0

Install this package and try starting it again.

Nikhil Parmar · #8 2nd July 2012, 01:21 PM

Sorry again for the late rep. installed the thing as

"yum install 2:libpng-compat-1.5.10-1.fc17.i686 "

But still no help.

I again fire "libreoffice3.5" command in the terminal but again same old msg:

"/opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Colors · #9 2nd July 2012, 01:32 PM

You have libreoffice installed from a tar archive and the packet which generated the error with yum. Why not install libreoffice with yum?

Nikhil Parmar · #10 2nd July 2012, 01:43 PM

actually i downloaded the .tar file from the site then extracted it. install it with some
"yum" command.

nonamedotc · #11 2nd July 2012, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nikhil Parmar

Sorry again for the late rep. installed the thing as

"yum install 2:libpng-compat-1.5.10-1.fc17.i686 "

But still no help.

I again fire "libreoffice3.5" command in the terminal but again same old msg:

"/opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Try ldconfig in a terminal and try open it again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Colors

You have libreoffice installed from a tar archive and the packet which generated the error with yum. Why not install libreoffice with yum?

Because the OP is trying to install libreoffice 3.5 which is not in F16 repos as far as I can tell. I asked the same question before without noticing the '3.5'.

Colors · #12 2nd July 2012, 03:49 PM

He is using F17 and the current version of LibreOffice is 3.5.4.2. Maybe it was a misunderstanding.

nonamedotc · #13 2nd July 2012, 03:52 PM

Apologies! That is the case! I have suggested installing using yum in the post #4 myself!

Colors · #14 2nd July 2012, 04:08 PM

I saw, that is why i asked too.

---------- Post added at 06:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:01 PM ----------

But anyway this command not worked for me:

$ libreoffice3.5

maybe would be enough

$ libreoffice

Nikhil Parmar · #15 6th July 2012, 04:18 PM

i just ran the command "ldconfig", but what to do next ??
I am not a linux expert pls help !! I desperatly want my system to have a Office Suite.
Why is this problem occuring, i have never faced such problems in F14, or should i try installing using PackagetKit i.e with working Internet Connection.

Guy pls help.

Yaa and one more thing I ran both the commands "libreoffice" and "libreoffice3.5". No help :-(