What Happened to The Latex Symbols In the Libreoffice-Texmaths Equation Editor?

You have to remove packaged TexMaths 0.43-2 and install newest instead with the steps below:

  1. Remove the libreoffice-texmaths package

     sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-texmaths
    
  2. Remove configuration folder

     rm -rf ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/TexMaths
    
  3. Download latest version from TexMaths site, save TexMaths-0.46.1.oxt file.

  4. Open downloaded TexMaths-0.46.1.oxt file in LibreOffice and confirm its installation.

  5. Restart LibreOffice Writer, click pi to add new equation:

    TexMaths


Note: packaged version do not have buttons in all Ubuntu releases, so I reported bug 1828433.