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Hello. Been a long time since I used LibreOffice Writer, but when I
opened it today and tried to use the Mail Merge feature, the following
message popped up:

"The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail merge."

This is a fresh install of 22.04.3 that I did over the last year.

Thanks for any help.

Jake
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Jake M wrote:

Hello.  Been a long time since I used LibreOffice Writer, but when I
opened it today and tried to use the Mail Merge feature, the following message popped up:

"The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail merge."

This is a fresh install of 22.04.3 that I did over the last year.

Thanks for any help.

I believe you are missing LibreOffice Base which is not installed by
default. Try:

sudo apt install libreoffice-base
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Jonathan
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On 02/10/2023 19:55, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Jake M wrote:

Hello.  Been a long time since I used LibreOffice Writer, but when I
opened it today and tried to use the Mail Merge feature, the following
message popped up:

"The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail
merge."

This is a fresh install of 22.04.3 that I did over the last year.

Thanks for any help.

I believe you are missing LibreOffice Base which is not installed by
default. Try:

sudo apt install libreoffice-base

Yes. That rings a bell. I think I had this on a Lubuntu install I used temporarily a while ago. It appears to be due to a mistake in the Ubuntu distribution.
--
Brian Gregory (in England).

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Brian Gregory wrote:

On 02/10/2023 19:55, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Jake M wrote:

Hello.  Been a long time since I used LibreOffice Writer, but when I
opened it today and tried to use the Mail Merge feature, the following
message popped up:

"The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail >>> merge."

This is a fresh install of 22.04.3 that I did over the last year.

Thanks for any help.

I believe you are missing LibreOffice Base which is not installed by
default. Try:

sudo apt install libreoffice-base

Yes. That rings a bell. I think I had this on a Lubuntu install I used >temporarily a while ago. It appears to be due to a mistake in the Ubuntu >distribution.

I can't say that I like the apparent "integration" of the various
Libre Office Programs. Like, when I work in Calc and call "Recently
used files" I get files from Writer, too. And exiting a program greets
me with a screen full of Libre Office Component Tiles instead of just
a quiet and friendly "Bye". According to my taste, they overdo things
and make them unnecessarily complex.
Regards,
H.
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On 10/2/23 2:55 PM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Jake M wrote:

Hello.  Been a long time since I used LibreOffice Writer, but when I
opened it today and tried to use the Mail Merge feature, the following
message popped up:

"The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail
merge."

This is a fresh install of 22.04.3 that I did over the last year.

Thanks for any help.

I believe you are missing LibreOffice Base which is not installed by
default. Try:

sudo apt install libreoffice-base

Ok, thanks. Working now. Can't help but wonder why not already
installed by default though.
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On 2023-10-03, Jake M wrote:

On 10/2/23 2:55 PM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Jake M wrote:

[...]
"The LibreOffice base component is absent and it is required to use mail >>> merge."

I believe you are missing LibreOffice Base which is not installed by
default. [...]

Ok, thanks. Working now. Can't help but wonder why not already
installed by default though.

IIRC it's a mistake in recent releases, or at least I recall it being
part of the default installation in the past; and I can't find any
notice that it's being removed by default (but then again, I didn't go
digging too deeply).
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On 03/10/2023 04.07, Heinz Schmitz wrote:

I can't say that I like the apparent "integration" of the various
Libre Office Programs. Like, when I work in Calc and call "Recently
used files" I get files from Writer, too. And exiting a program greets
me with a screen full of Libre Office Component Tiles instead of just
a quiet and friendly "Bye". According to my taste, they overdo things
and make them unnecessarily complex.

I quite agree with you on these points.
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Michael F. Stemper
Always use apostrophe's and "quotation marks" properly.

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