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Asked: 2017-05-11 06:46:03 +0800 CST

LibreOffice stopped working in Ubuntu 17.04

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After upgrading to 17.04, when I start LibreOffice, I get the following error messages:

/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/javaldx: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've tried to completely remove and reinstall the libreoffice package. I've checked and there are no PPAs in the sources list.

Update: turns out the file libreglo.so exists in directory /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/. When I add this directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH LibreOffice works. But why is it apparently mis-configured by default?

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5 Answers

  1. I faced a similar problem after upgrading. This solution (by disabling java) worked for me:

    LibreOffice 5 problems and solutions

    Open LibreOffice or any program - Writer, Calc (only one program, settings apply to the whole suite)

    • Go to Options
    • LibreOffice
    • Advanced
    • Uncheck "Use a Java runtime environment"
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  2. I faced the same problem with Ubuntu Artful 17.10. All of the libreoffice programs produced the error listed. Disabling Java made no difference. I tried purging and re-installing Libreoffice and even purging and switching back from the LibreOffice PPA to the default Ubuntu repository did not solve the problem. I also tried removing the libreoffice configuration files in ~/.config

    It is clear that LibreOffice is not finding it's libraries and this post set me on the right path to sorting out the library path. Unfortunately simply adding /usr/lib/libreoffice/program to LD_LIBRARY_PATH was not enough. LibreOffice still would not run. For me, I had to make sure that /usr/lib/libreoffice/program was the first library directory that LibreOffice looked at. For bash, this meant adding the following line to the end of .bashrc

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr/lib/libreoffice/program:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

    and for the UI, it meant editing

    /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop

    and replacing 

    Exec=libreoffice --writer %U

    with

    Exec=env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr/lib/libreoffice/program:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ libreoffice --writer %U

    My naive assumption is that there are some duplicate libraries in LibreOffice and they need their particular flavour to be loaded in order to run.

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  3. I fixed it by purging the libreoffice installation

    sudo apt-get purge libreoffice

    I deleted the directories

    /var/lib/libreoffice
/etc/libreoffice

    I then installed libreoffice as a snap

    sudo snap install libreoffice
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  4. Currently it is not enough to modify lines with %U. This modifies both necessary lines:

    cd /usr/share/applications
sudo su
# enter password
for i in libre*.desktop; do sed -i 's/Exec=libreoffice/Exec=env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:\/usr\/lib\/libreoffice\/program:\/usr\/lib\/x86_64-linux-gnu\/ libreoffice/g' $i; done
exit
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  5. The simplest solution I have found is to edit the shell-script /usr/bin/soffice and add on the beginning (after the 1st block of comments):

    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/libreoffice/program:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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