I keep my custom basic modules in the home folder for LO 7.4 instaled from my distro repositories. How the flatpak install of LO 7.5 can acess the same modules

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#1

The title says all. LinuxMint 21.2

#2

IMHO: Reject “flatpak” and “snap”, and insist on classic …deb packages!!

#3

I just did that but the flatpak is verified by the LibreOffice team and it seems the best way to get LO fresh in debian based distros.

#4

there are also …deb-packages for manual download and installation

#5

Yes but as I understand, feel free to correct me, those deb-packages have an old compilation target for wider compatibility and likewise are less optimized for newer OSes. Also, the flatpaks have integration with the upgrade utility in my desktop.

#7

same for appimage, snap etc. unless one provides images for groups of CPUs etc. If you wish to have a perfect fit, look for gentoo or similiar distributions, where the binary is compiled locally.

Appimage don’t need to contain “modern” environments. You could also deliver old python2 etc. And I don’t think containers are optimized for modern OS. They just bring their own environment, may it be old or new. There are “modern” ideas to reduce the OS to a basic system to start containers, but IMHO the problem of updates inside your container is not solved…
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Don’t mix policy of a distribution like “debian LTS kernel and only minor version updates for installed software” with the software to distribute. The .deb packages on arch can be newer than an app-image, if the latter is not re-built.

#8

so it is… here the comparison data for “my” arm-architecture (raspberry4b with debian-bullseye).

  1. debian:
    Version: 7.0.4.2
    Build ID: 00(Build:2)
    CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
    Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE
    Raspbian package version: 1:7.0.4-4+rpi1+deb11u6
    Calc: threaded

  2. flatpak:
    Version: 7.0.1.2
    Build ID: 7cbcfc562f6eb6708b5ff7d7397325de9e764452
    CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
    Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US
    Flatpak
    Calc: threaded

For me the decisive advantage is that 1. uses the python environment of the OS without any problems, while 2. comes with a completely isolated python environment, whose version is also significantly older (3.7.4 versus 3.9.2).

#6

Libreoffice flatpak has its XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment set to
~/.var/app/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/data
where within it creates the libreoffice/4/ user profile.
You could sync the ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/basic/ directory content to
~/.var/app/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/data/libreoffice/4/user/basic/

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