Upgrading to LibreOffice 4
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I just upgraded Trisquel 5.5 to 6. I see that the LibreOffice version on my computer is 3.5, while the LibreOffice.org website shows 4.0 to be the latest version. I tried upgrading through Synaptic Manager and through Update Manager, but they tell me that everything is up to date. How do I force it to upgrade to LibreOffice 4.0?
Thanks!
You won't find LibreOffice 4 in Toutatis (which is based on Ubuntu 12.04). However, you can use the following ppa:
By the way, I just read this about LibreOffice 4.0:
"LibreOffice requires a recent version of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for full functionality. JRE is not part of the LibreOffice installation package, it should be installed separately"
I am very surprised, I thought LibreOffice was supposed to be free software...
There is a free Java implementation in Trisquel so it is free.
Yup, OpenJDK works fine with LibreOffice in Trisquel 6:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
Trisquel doesn't have version 4 in the repositories so the package
manager won't show it to you. Most GNU/Linux distros don't have the
latest bleeding edge versions of stuff but rather well tested versions
that are properly configured and integrated with the rest of the distro.
If the update manager says you're up to date then that's it.
But if you really need 4.0 for whatever reason you could try checking if they have binaries available, compile from source or find some other way to get it. Could be easy or could be hard. If you decide to venture outside of the official repositories, just watch out for proprietary stuff.
I am quite new to Trisquel, so I am sure that it would be very hard for me to do that. I'll just leave LibreOffice at 3.5 and trust the Update Manager. It is not that I needed 4.0 for any particular reason, I just assumed that something may be wrong with my update manager since it did misbehave when I was trying to upgrade to Trisquel 6.0. I had to upgrade through the terminal because the Update Manager didn't let me.
Thank you all for the responding so quickly to my questions!
Thank you oysterboy and jxself. I decided against upgrading to LibreOffice 4 after reading in the link from oysterboy that
"You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-0 to your system's Software Sources"
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