[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 132528] Crash when opening Base (no .odb file) on Linux Mint 18.3

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132528

--- Comment #6 from cme_linux at protonmail.com ---
Thanks to all 3 of you for responding.  

Alex is correct that, with the .deb install from the LibreOffice.org download
page, "the application crashes when the Base module is launched, e.g. by
double-clicking the Base icon".  

Robert's comment 'If you want to get an internal Firebird database you have to
set the experimental functions to "On" since LO 6.4.3' was the solution to the
problem that I'd had with the Flatpak install.  

I now have LO 6.4.3.2 installed via Flatpak and it seems to be working OK.  You
may close this bug report (I'm not sure what resolution you'd prefer for this
case, so I'll let you select the resolution).  

I look forward to being able to use the distro packaging once I upgrade to
Linux Mint 20, since currently LO on Flatpak doesn't use my theme settings for
scrollbar style, mouse pointer, etc.  (The distro that would provide
LibreOffice to me would be Ubuntu 20.04 Focal, since Mint doesn't package its
own LibreOffice, although there is an additional "libreoffice-style-mint"
package.)  

I made a symlink from where LO-on-Flatpak keeps its user settings in
~/.var/app/ to my existing user settings in ~/.config/

I'm not sure how to "purge" everything related to LO, but this time it seems I
didn't need to.  (I renamed my original LO user profile back into place.)  

I had been using the PPA install of LibreOffice for a while now, and I hadn't
had any problems with it except that recently it hasn't been updated to a newer
version, possibly because Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, which is the package base for my
version of Mint, is about to become unsupported.  

I did find the following on the Mint forum:  
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=316010
That user's solution also was to install via Flatpak.  

Thanks again.

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