How to completelly reinstall LibreOffice?

Question

I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 (fresh installation), but I have lot of problems with LibreOffice. I am not more specific, as these problems seems of various nature, with windows not updating, crashing and so on. I had no problems in 14.04.

So, I would like to "reset" LibreOffice and reinstall it. What is the best way to reinstall all the LibreOffice packages in Ubuntu 16.04?

UPDATED: I did lookup for all LibreOffice packages in Synaptic and "purged" them before reinstalling, but I still have problems as you can see from the following screenshot (editing math formula is not the only problem, but it is the most repeatable one, so I am using it as a benchmark of things working or not)

See: http://askubuntu.com/questions/1143/how-can-i-uninstall-software — Cristiana Nicolae, Oct 27 '16 at 07:50
And this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/187888/what-is-the-correct-way-to-completely-remove-an-application — Cristiana Nicolae, Oct 27 '16 at 07:51
@CristianaNicolae: yup, but libreoffice is a miriade of packages.. my question is how to be sure I am removing all the packages involved — Antonello, Oct 27 '16 at 07:52

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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I haven't encountered this problem myself, so I didn't have a chance to experiment the following solution myself. But, according to this blog post, this AskUbuntu answer and even this forum thread, the solution to your problem would be as follows:

Open Terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T and type:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

Community

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answered Oct 27 '16 at 08:12

Cristiana Nicolae

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Thank you. I solved purging again libreoffice and installing the debs directly from the LibreOffice site. – Antonello Oct 27 '16 at 08:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 08 '21 at 07:03

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I tried reinstalling LibreOffice, but that solution wasn't working for me. I checked my /tmp/ directory and it turns out there was this frozen file that I had to remove:

/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_b0dc85e3bd564c5817d1b2a7798830

edited Jun 08 '21 at 07:03

BeastOfCaerbannog

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answered Jun 07 '21 at 13:22

Thomas

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How to completelly reinstall LibreOffice?

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