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  • Re: LibreOffice base component missing

    From Jonathan N. Little@21:1/5 to Jake M on Mon Oct 2 14:55:59 2023
    Jake M wrote:
    Hello.  Been a long time since I used LibreOffice Writer, but when I
    opened it today and tried to use the Mail Merge feature, the following message popped up:

    "The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail merge."

    This is a fresh install of 22.04.3 that I did over the last year.

    Thanks for any help.

    I believe you are missing LibreOffice Base which is not installed by
    default. Try:

    sudo apt install libreoffice-base


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  • From Jake M@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 2 14:32:27 2023
    Hello. Been a long time since I used LibreOffice Writer, but when I
    opened it today and tried to use the Mail Merge feature, the following
    message popped up:

    "The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail merge."

    This is a fresh install of 22.04.3 that I did over the last year.

    Thanks for any help.

    Jake

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  • From Brian Gregory@21:1/5 to Jonathan N. Little on Mon Oct 2 22:00:01 2023
    On 02/10/2023 19:55, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
    Jake M wrote:
    Hello.  Been a long time since I used LibreOffice Writer, but when I
    opened it today and tried to use the Mail Merge feature, the following
    message popped up:

    "The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail
    merge."

    This is a fresh install of 22.04.3 that I did over the last year.

    Thanks for any help.

    I believe you are missing LibreOffice Base which is not installed by
    default. Try:

    sudo apt install libreoffice-base



    Yes. That rings a bell. I think I had this on a Lubuntu install I used temporarily a while ago. It appears to be due to a mistake in the Ubuntu distribution.

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  • From Heinz Schmitz@21:1/5 to Brian Gregory on Tue Oct 3 11:07:12 2023
    Brian Gregory wrote:

    On 02/10/2023 19:55, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
    Jake M wrote:
    Hello.  Been a long time since I used LibreOffice Writer, but when I
    opened it today and tried to use the Mail Merge feature, the following
    message popped up:

    "The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail >>> merge."

    This is a fresh install of 22.04.3 that I did over the last year.

    Thanks for any help.

    I believe you are missing LibreOffice Base which is not installed by
    default. Try:

    sudo apt install libreoffice-base

    Yes. That rings a bell. I think I had this on a Lubuntu install I used >temporarily a while ago. It appears to be due to a mistake in the Ubuntu >distribution.

    I can't say that I like the apparent "integration" of the various
    Libre Office Programs. Like, when I work in Calc and call "Recently
    used files" I get files from Writer, too. And exiting a program greets
    me with a screen full of Libre Office Component Tiles instead of just
    a quiet and friendly "Bye". According to my taste, they overdo things
    and make them unnecessarily complex.

    Regards,
    H.

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  • From Dan Purgert@21:1/5 to Jake M on Tue Oct 3 12:22:41 2023
    On 2023-10-03, Jake M wrote:
    On 10/2/23 2:55 PM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
    Jake M wrote:
    [...]
    "The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail >>> merge."
    I believe you are missing LibreOffice Base which is not installed by
    default. [...]

    Ok, thanks. Working now. Can't help but wonder why not already
    installed by default though.

    IIRC it's a mistake in recent releases, or at least I recall it being
    part of the default installation in the past; and I can't find any
    notice that it's being removed by default (but then again, I didn't go
    digging too deeply).


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  • From Jake M@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 3 08:18:56 2023
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  • From Michael F. Stemper@21:1/5 to Heinz Schmitz on Tue Oct 3 08:28:06 2023
    On 03/10/2023 04.07, Heinz Schmitz wrote:

    I can't say that I like the apparent "integration" of the various
    Libre Office Programs. Like, when I work in Calc and call "Recently
    used files" I get files from Writer, too. And exiting a program greets
    me with a screen full of Libre Office Component Tiles instead of just
    a quiet and friendly "Bye". According to my taste, they overdo things
    and make them unnecessarily complex.

    I quite agree with you on these points.

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    Always use apostrophe's and "quotation marks" properly.

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