Ubuntu & Libreoffice: General input/output error saving file

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Ubuntu & Libreoffice: General input/output error saving file

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[PROBLEM]
On Xubuntu Xenial (16.04.3 LTS, 64bit), I got a "general I/O" error when trying to save files in LibreOffice Draw :shock:
The error message was something like this:
General Error. General input/output error
Regardless of content or location or filename. Just to my home folder.
No network drive, no USB disk - and (luckily), according to "dmesg": No general input/output error :?

[SOLUTION]
I don't know why, but the meta-package "libreoffice" wasn't installed on my machine.
So I just installed it, and it pulled in some additional packages:

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$ apt install libreoffice
btw: Libreoffice Draw was already at the latest version and stayed untouched.

Would like to know what caused the error, but don't have time to debug/reproduce it now.
Happy it works.
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