On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I > observed the current problem. > Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0 > > Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch. > Attempted complete removal. This time the LibreOffice meta-package was > identified as broke. > [I did _something_ ???] If I may suggest, skip Stretch and install Buster. I had problems (don't remember what they were) with Stretch too, and everything's working fine on Buster. I've never used anything but Stable, but this time it seemed to be bent. The updates are massive on Testing, but it works. YMMV... -- Glenn English