LO, man pages, tab completion, oh my! (was Re: What happened to libre office?

[Rusty Carruth]

Just for the record, what I do when I want to start LibreOffice from the 
command line is I type:

libr<tab>

to which the bash prompt replies:

libreoffice

then I hit enter.  From there you can get to calc or write or ...

However, if you really don't want that extra step of choosing, you can 
do what I just did and type man libreoffice or (man localc, or probably 
even man -k libreoffice) and find that there are command line names for 
each of the things.  And, having seen the man page, I now realize that 
its not 'local' c, its 'lo' calc.  For LibreOffice calc (so the others 
are lobase, lodraw, loimpress, etc).

Too much to remember, I'll stick with libr<tab> thank you very much!  
(This all assumes you've got tab completion enabled, and if you DON'T 
you should seriously consider it, unless you really love typing! ;-)

On 8/28/24 05:54, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> the ol' microsoft fix fixed it. I rebooted.
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 2:12 AM Pablo Camacho via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps refreshing the package repository and installing again  may work.
>> Another option is to install an older working version of libreoffice.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 6:02 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Old school is to reboot to fix errors!!
>>>
>>> In the early days of DOS and Windows a reboot was often necessary.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2024-08-27 17:06, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>> got it fixed. a reboot did it!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 5:39 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> sudo apt install libreoffice-calc
>>>>> [sudo] password for bmike1:
>>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>>> Building dependency tree... Done
>>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>>> libreoffice-calc is already the newest version
>>>>> (4:24.2.5-0ubuntu0.24.04.2).
>>>>> libreoffice-calc set to manually installed.
>>>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
>>>>> bmike1 at bmike1-desktop:~$ libreoffice-calc
>>>>> libreoffice-calc: command not found
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 5:36 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I started my computer then tried to start libreoffice but nothing
>>>>>> happened. So I opened a tty, typed in libreoffice, hit return/ and
>>>>>> nothing happened. No error. It just went to the next line. So I
>>>>>> tried to reinstall it and stuff installed. then I tried to open
>>>>>> libreoffice-calc but it isn't on the computer.
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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