That makes sense I suppose. I saw libreoffice-common, and it was the only one that had an actual icon ( other than libreoffice-writer ) , so my mind just defaulted straight to that one.

I just had the same issue from installing libreoffice-common. I fixed it by installing libreoffice-base, which just installed libreoffice-writer. However I assumed install libreoffice-common would just install the full suite. Is that a separate issue?