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After upgrading to 17.04, when I start LibreOffice, I get the following error messages:

/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/javaldx: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Warning: failed to read path from javaldx

/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've tried to completely remove and reinstall the libreoffice package. I've checked and there are no PPAs in the sources list.

Update: turns out the file libreglo.so exists in directory /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/. When I add this directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH LibreOffice works. But why is it apparently mis-configured by default?

I faced a similar problem after upgrading. This solution (by disabling java) worked for me:

LibreOffice 5 problems and solutions

Open LibreOffice or any program - Writer, Calc (only one program, settings apply to the whole suite)

• Go to Options
  


• LibreOffice


• Advanced


• Uncheck "Use a Java runtime environment"

I faced the same problem with Ubuntu Artful 17.10. All of the libreoffice programs produced the error listed. Disabling Java made no difference. I tried purging and re-installing Libreoffice and even purging and switching back from the LibreOffice PPA to the default Ubuntu repository did not solve the problem. I also tried removing the libreoffice configuration files in ~/.config

It is clear that LibreOffice is not finding it's libraries and this post set me on the right path to sorting out the library path. Unfortunately simply adding /usr/lib/libreoffice/program to LD_LIBRARY_PATH was not enough. LibreOffice still would not run. For me, I had to make sure that /usr/lib/libreoffice/program was the first library directory that LibreOffice looked at. For bash, this meant adding the following line to the end of .bashrc

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr/lib/libreoffice/program:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

and for the UI, it meant editing

/usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop

and replacing

Exec=libreoffice --writer %U

with

Exec=env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr/lib/libreoffice/program:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ libreoffice --writer %U

My naive assumption is that there are some duplicate libraries in LibreOffice and they need their particular flavour to be loaded in order to run.

The same thing happened to me with LibreOffice. It seams that the upgrade to 17.04 actually messed with the environmental variables, specifically the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I fixed it by purging the libreoffice installation

sudo apt-get purge libreoffice

I deleted the directories

/var/lib/libreoffice

/etc/libreoffice 

I then installed libreoffice as a snap

sudo snap install libreoffice