Do I Have Two Versions Of LibreOffice Installed?

I am trying to convert a PDF document from an Excel and PowerPoint document. I installed it and ran the command. It gives no warning.. Just doesn't create a new PDF document. I've successfully done this before, but I think it was a different server. I've checked file permissions, but don't think it is the issue (I've tried as a normal user and as root).

I could convert doc, docx, and txt files, but not xls, xlsx, ppt, and pptx files.

Thoughts why? Is there a verbose option or a log file which I could check for clues?

Thank you


Code:

yum -y install libreoffice-headless libreoffice-writer

Code:

Package 1:libreoffice-headless-4.0.4.2-14.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package 1:libreoffice-writer-4.0.4.2-14.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version

Code:

libreoffice --headless -convert-to pdf myfile.xlsx

I am about to attempt my first software installation - upgrading my LibreOffice package to the latest version. Since all my software came preloaded with my computer I have not been involved in this exercise previously.

I realize how irritating newbies can be, by asking questions that have already been answered in other threads, so I have read the post offering basic software installation instructions, together with anything else that seemed relevant. Then I got the installation instructions from the LibreOffice website. When I compared these with the LQ version it was difficult to find much in common, so what do I do? I am inclined to follow the LibreOffice instructions. Apart from anything else, they are simpler. However, I notice reference to a 'desktop-integration' folder in the latter. I do not appear to have such a folder in my present system. Can I assume that it will be created as part of the installation of the updated package?

I am happy to experiment but one thing that terrifies me is the instruction to purge my existing version of LibreOffice before installing the latest one. I do not question the logic of so doing, it being pointed out that otherwise I will finish up with both new and old versions. The worry is that, if I remove the old version and am then unable to successfully install the new one, I will have well and truly 'burned my boats behind me'- and I have only just got the spell checker to work in the old version!

I have so far managed to download the .tar.gz file and extract the installation folder and associated files from it. I realise that the latter could well be lost when purging the existing LibreOffice installation but that does not matter. I have slightly renamed the .tar.gz file so that the purge command will not find it. I can then quickly re-extract the installation folder, with its .deb files, if I need to, the extraction process yielding exactly the same files whatever the .tar.gz file name.

I am just about ready to jump but I would like a handle on the 'desktop-integration' file, or folder, before I do.

Arch linux, lxdm/lxde, recent installation, feeling I must be doing something stupid, would be glad to be guided!

I have a Brother HL-2030 printer connected to a Raspberry Pi as a print server, CUPS setup, with sharing turned on. Other machines in the household, and indeed other OS's on the machine I'm writing on, print trouble-free to this printer.

On *this* desktop machine, (with libcups installed,) other programs print trouble-free. Firefox, Thunderbird, geany and evince all detect the presence of the network printer, and work as expected.

It's just Libreoffice that does not. This is true both of libreoffice-fresh and libreoffice-still, and it is true for all the components (write, draw, calc etc).

Libreoffice *does* find the network printer from other OS's that I play with; I have Puppy and Mint on the same machine, but those installs of Libreoffice are obviously different/earlier versions (nor do I feel like upgrading them in the circumstances!)

In this context, though, the Libreoffice "File>Printer settings..." menu offers me only a "Generic Printer" (whose properties and options I can edit). If I ask Libreoffice to print to this generic printer, it reports no failure, but that task just seems to disappear into thin air.

On the Pi server, /var/log/cups/ offers

Code:

# extract from /var/log/cups/access_log
# [...snip]
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 566 CUPS-Get-Printers server-error-version-not-supported
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] "POST /printers/Brother_HL-2030_series HTTP/1.1" 200 15824 Print-Job successful-ok
# the above line logs a successful print from geany
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:26:40 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 673 CUPS-Get-Default server-error-version-not-supported


# extract of /var/log/cups/error_log
# [...snip]
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:20 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:20 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:26:40 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Default (no URI) from 192.168.2.2

I really think I must be doing something very stupid and newbie-ish!

I created a new user on my Fedora 21 system so I could demo Fedora and apps to coworkers without leaving my personal account exposed. After logging into the account I launched Firefox and verified connectivity without any problems. Then I launched Libre office and got the following nastygram
Code:

 The application cannot be started. 
LibreOffice user installation could not be processed due to missing access rights. Please make sure that you have sufficient access rights for the following location and restart LibreOffice:

/home/fedorademo/.config/libreoffice/4 

This looks like a variation of the folders being owned by root but that isn't the case with this account as everything is owned by the new account.
Code:

 [fedorademo@tesseract ~]$ pwd
/home/fedorademo
[fedorademo@tesseract ~]$ cd .config
[fedorademo@tesseract .config]$ ll
total 80
<snip>
drwxrwxr-x. 3 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:12 libreoffice
<snip>
[fedorademo@tesseract .config]$ cd libreoffice
[fedorademo@tesseract libreoffice]$ ll
total 4
drwx------. 3 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:12 4
[fedorademo@tesseract libreoffice]$ cd 4
[fedorademo@tesseract 4]$ ll
total 4
drwxrwxr-x. 9 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 user
[fedorademo@tesseract 4]$ cd user
[fedorademo@tesseract user]$ ll
total 32
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 autotext
drwxrwxr-x. 3 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 basic
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 config
drwxrwxr-x. 3 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 database
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:12 extensions
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 gallery
-rw-------. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  329 Feb  9 20:42 registrymodifications.xcu
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:12 uno_packages
[fedorademo@tesseract user]$ cd  config
[fedorademo@tesseract config]$ ll
total 404
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   4308 Jan 16 18:28 arrowhd.soe
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  48408 Jan 16 18:27 autotbl.fmt
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  30852 Jan 16 18:28 classic.sog
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  13132 Jan 16 18:28 cmyk.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   4408 Jan 16 18:28 gallery.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   5238 Jan 16 18:28 hatching.soh
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  10766 Jan 16 18:28 html.soc
-rw-rw-r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2329 Feb  9 20:12 javasettings_Linux_X86_64.xml
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2334 Jan 16 18:28 libreoffice.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   6840 Jan 16 18:28 modern.sog
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   5271 Jan 16 18:28 palette.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  31320 Jan 16 18:28 scribus.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo 155895 Jan 16 18:28 standard.sob
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  11461 Jan 16 18:28 standard.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2426 Jan 16 18:28 standard.sod
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   4984 Jan 16 18:28 standard.soe
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   5080 Jan 16 18:28 standard.sog
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2171 Jan 16 18:28 standard.soh
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   1708 Jan 16 18:28 styles.sod
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2331 Jan 16 18:28 tango.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  14420 Jan 16 18:28 web.soc
[fedorademo@tesseract config]$ 

And so on
I've tried it with an admin account and a standard account in Fedora 21 and both fail.
I tried it with a standard account in Fedora 20 and it worked.
Fedora 20 is running a slightly older version of Libreoffice 4.2.8.2-2.fc20
Fedora 21 is running 4.3.5.2-11.fc21. Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this would be appreciated. Right now I can't tell if it is a LibreOffice problem or a Fedora problem. Thanks for reading

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