LibreOffice not updating

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Thanks all.  Actually, I found the new stuff through Synaptic.  It's all in
/usr/local/bin, not conflicting with the official Ubuntu stuff, so I'm not
going to have to uninstall anything.  It was also in the whisker menu
Office category, so I just replaced the launchers in my panels to be for
the new version.  I also created a symbolic link "lo" in /usr/local/bin for
my command-line use (which is my most usual way of doing stuff).

All is good, panic subsides.  And I'm grateful for a gang like you all.


On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 4:11 PM Keith <keith at caramail.com> wrote:

> On 6/26/21 5:04 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > I've got 5 machines running the Xubuntu flavor of Ubuntu, Focal Fossa
> > LTS.  I'm not sure how I accomplished it, but all five have LibreOffice
> > running version 6.4.6.2.  I notice that Libre Office's current version
> > is 7.1.4.2, and I'd like to upgrade.  I don't see an option to do that
> > (possibly short of getting off my LTS and into a later Ubuntu -- but I'd
> > rather not do that).
> >
> > I downloaded the latest .deb files from LibreOffice, and installed
> > them.  I still get the old LibreOffice when I use the usual "soffice'
> > command or 'libreoffice'.
> >
> > I'm missing something, I'm sure, but have no idea what or how to find
> > out other than asking here.
> >
> > --
> > Kevin O'Gorman
> > #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb))   /* Shakespeare */
> >
> >       Please consider the environment before printing this email.
> >
> >
> >
> Invoke from the command line with
>
> $ libreoffice7.1
>
> That's a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin which points to the Libreoffice
> 7.1.x soffice script in the /opt/libreoffice7.1/program directory.
>
> I would have thought, though, that upon installation your application
> menu would have some new entries pointing to the 7.1.x versions of the
> Libreoffice executables so you wouldn't have to start the program from
> the command line. Is the "libreoffice7.1-debian-menus_7.1.4.2_all.deb"
> package installed?
>
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> Keith
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Kevin O'Gorman
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