If asking questions that seem absurdly elementary to proficient users are viewed as an annoyance, I will happily fade away from your forum---snip--- Please advise.
If you find it annoying when others suggest doing some searches, then you might not be very happy here, but are all ways welcome. No need to "fade away" as you say.
I could go on, but really this would be better in another topic, and we should concentrated on your problems with LibreOffice, Steve is right on the 'which' command, it does not give so many results, I am prone to using 'locate', in your case , maybe try both and see the differences. A good rule of thumb on the search first, yes we all know quite often the results are overwhelming, and often not clear, other times, the results will give you a clear answer, much more quickly then asking us, and waiting, only to get a response like "you can find the answer if you did a search ",... so any way, when you are writing your post, and reach a point where you have a question, open a search engine, type the question into it and see what comes up, if nothing comes up, obviously you need to ask us here, you can copy paste the same question into your post, and will have to wait for a answer before you can proceed, sometimes continuing to search and read the results still will get a answer faster then what you will get here.
For example only, since you all ready have been given the answer to the problem you had when it said "command not found" on the 'locate' command, simply copy the error message and paste it into a search engine:
-bash: locate: command not found
Now it has gotten rather confusing to me, what exactly is the problem ?
by plw » Yet, LibreOffice is undoubtedly there and functional.
Another odd thing... I created a couple test documents in LibreOffice. Solid Explorer file manager cannot locate them--searching for file names or extensions turn up empty and the My Files>Linux Files folder isn't even visible. But, the built in Chrome OS explorer has them in the right place. Related issues??
If Libreoffice is functioning, then what is the problem ? I have no clue what "Solid Explorer file manager " is, maybe that is the problem ? I will now need to do a search: key words "what is Solid Explorer file manager", or maybe you can find those files using some of the new commands you have learned, Maybe you are not saving the files correctly when you use Libreoffice, ? I also find these "My Files>Linux Files folder isn't even visible" confusing, "folders", ? Do you mean directories ?, Having spaces in directory and file names, can cause some real headaches, I never use them.
why you should not use spaces in Directory names and file names on Linux
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Are you sure this is Linux ? The spaces in the Folder name, and file names, could be causing problems in locating them, assuming "folder" is actually a directory.
I do know, there are some additional commands, or options one can use, in dealing with directory names, or file names that have spaces, but since I NEVER use spaces in my directory names, nor file names, I will need to do some more searches, to find those command options, here is one:
https://www.hecticgeek.com/2014/02/spac ... mand-line/
ahh, and speaking of baby birds:
by plw »before resigning myself to joining the hoards of baby birds peeping incessantly on forums, begging for regurgitated material they can consume quickly and without discretion--furiously copy-pasting various commands--to satisfy their cravings. Like the baby birds, though, new users, if nurtured, eventually grow up, learn to fend for themselves, and even "raise their own" in time.
Mine are driving me up a wall, and some are even trying to eat me alive, so I must go and take care of them now.
