Leap 42.1/Xfce/Libreoffice 5 - New Install

English Applications
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I reinstalled Leap 42.1 w/Xfce on my laptop yesterday. It all went well except for Libreoffice. When I try to run Writer, I receive the error “The program cannot be started. Language could not be determined” I googled the problem and saw a number of replies that it is either a firewall problem or a permissions problem. I disabled my firewall, which didn’t help, so then I went to a terminal and ran libreoffice-writer as root. Same error.

Libreoffice isn’t something that I use often, but I like to have Writer installed. To that end, I uninstalled LibreOffice completely, and then re-installed only Writer plus dependencies. I did all of this before I ever ran the software, so I’m not sure whether or not this was happening “out of the box.” This is also what I did back in November on the same laptop when I first installed Leap, but I never had this problem.

I would appreciate any advice, and I apologize right now if I am missing something painfully obvious. All of my language/location settings are US-English.

Thank you!

Will in Missouri, USA

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Have you run the following which updates your system and applications to the latest stable available?

zypper update

After the above, reboot for good measure and re-launch Writer…

TSU

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The system is fully updated, and I restarted it before I tried disabling the firewall and running Writer as root.

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I finally decided to force a downgrade of Libreoffice Writer from 5.0.4 to 5.0.2 (version that originally shipped with Leap). That fixed the problem. I was hoping that once I had all of my config files in place on my home directory that I would be able to upgrade it back to version 5.0.4. Worked like a charm.

I was going to add “[SOLVED]” to the title of my original post, but I don’t seem to have the user rights to do it.

Thanks,

Will