18.04b1 Software Boutique - LibreOffice cannot be installed after "minimal install"

Support & Help Requests
1

If I do a “minimal install” of 18.04b1 then use the Software Boutique (17.10.16) to install individual omitted packages, LibreOffice cannot be installed from it because there is no button to do so - only a Details button. For some reason, LibreOffice Base has both buttons.

Every other initially omitted package (vlc, Redshift, Thunderbird etc.) offers both buttons.

This behaviour persists after doing a software update (as of last night).

(This is probably a big use case - doing a minimal install then installing a subset of the packages that would have been installed by a full install is likely to be a thing).

2

Hi: have you tried “sudo snap install libreoffice” (without quotes) from the command line?

It doesn’t address the Boutique issue, but will get you there.

3

Yes and, of course, it works. But we need a general solution.