I installed Linux Lite 7.4 last week along with the associated version of Libre Office. (so - newbie)

When I open Libre Office, under the Create Menu, all the options are greyed out and unavailable.
In this situation, if I go Open File and navigate to an ODT file and click Open then I get a "Filter Selection" window with contents that suggest it thinks it's a chart.  It won't open.

If, however, I navigate to the same ODT file through File Manager and double click it, it opens faultlessly.  Same for .ODS files.

Is someone able to help me Create a new file or open an existing file through the main menu please?

Thanks, Mark

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Been a bit.

Had some medical issues.
Lost my Mom to Cancer. 
Moved to Texas.
Bought a house. 
Landed a full time I.T. job here & learning a lot of new things.

Back to messing with Linux OS distros on all my older, still serviceable laptops.
Especially with all the Windows Junk out there, looking for more flexibility.

How have y'all been?

I've been terribly preoccupied lately with building a new server and dealing with the annoying wait time for Debian 13 stable to drop. Anyway I was checking some references today and ran across this post on getcyber. It's a short read but addresses some of the frustrations I have with the modern Internet and the ridiculous amount of piled on new learning required to be up to date. Anyway I am of many of the same opinions expressed in this brief article. If you are as frustrated with the manic pace of Web "modernization" as I am it's nice to know we're not alone, and that there are people with considerable expertise who are asking why, and like me even postulating that "security" excuses are often only creating a more expansive fertile ground for security leaks and some "easier to use" programming languages are doing the same thing.
https://getcyber.me/posts/the-full-stack...nnovation/
TC

Hi - absolute newbie
Trying to install the named printer.
In Menu>System>Printers>Add it finds and recognises the connected printer "connected to USB"
Searching for a driver it says it has found one - "Gutenprint"
When I go "Forward" to install the driver it says "Installing openprint-gutenprint"  but it just sits there (for at least 5 minutes) and appears to be doing nothing.
I have the Xerox distribution CD that came with the printer (several years ago) but not sure if any drivers on the CD would be Lite-compatible: or how I would go about accessing them.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-free-...-it-works/

TC

A number of support threads have been raised in which this has been evident.

On a test system, installed OS from LL7.4 iso and attempting all the updates post installation.

During the upgrade, it appears the grub-efi-amd64-signed set up script can't find the location of the GRUB boot loader.
As a result of this problem, the grub script requires user intervention to manually confirm where it is or should be.

If update/upgrade is done from the cli, the grub-efi-amd64-signed configuration script calls a text based configuration tool.
The tool is similar in style to something like nmtui and the user is expected to navigate the menu to select and confirm the location of the GRUB boot loader.

My guess is that the lite-updates script is not equipped to handle this situation and throws an update/upgrade failure message with a cryptic message stating

Quote:mount: /var/lib/grub/esp: special device /dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VBad170837-5acc172c-part2 does not exist.

Quote:grub-efi-amd64-signed package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 32

buenas alguien me podría ayudar con mi navegador de google chrome recién instale el sistema a mi cpu de escritorio y resulta que no me abre el navegador Chrome, también instale CHromium y microsof edge y ninguno abre.

inux  ~  /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U
[0623/164531.954259:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/socket.cc:120] recvmsg: Connection reset by peer (104)
[6121:6121:0623/164531.967966:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/socket.cc:120] recvmsg: Conexión reinicializada por la máquina remota (104)
«trap» para punto de parada/seguimiento

linux  ~  google-chrome --incognito
[0623/164222.260957:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/socket.cc:120] recvmsg: Connection reset by peer (104)
[6043:6043:0623/164222.316097:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/socket.cc:120] recvmsg: Conexión reinicializada por la máquina remota (104)
«trap» para punto de parada/seguimiento

just curious ~ any specific OR general change details IRT the recent update/upgrade over 'lite-tweaks 7.0-0010-linuxlite' - changes, fixed-something broken, improvement/s? couldn't find anything (don't know where to look for it!) on the inter-web.

Hello,

 I just installed Linux Lite on an old Windows 7 PC, and I cannot figure out how to make the wifi work.
When I try to add a new Wifi network I have the following message: "the device does not support Access Point Mode"

Thank you for your help!