I just installed Linux Mint and it came bundled with LibreOffice 7.3.2.2
I want to update it to the latest version.
I open LibreOffice and go to Help and do not see any options for updating.
I go to Tools > Options and see no selections for updating either.
Thinking that maybe we have to update each program separately I opened Calc and I find no options to update either. I’ve googled this and everything I read says there should be an option to update in either Help or Tools > Options.
What am I doing wrong?
Since you installed LO from the distribution repository, use the distro package manager to update your applications (probably apt with command apt-get ot some user-friendly UI in the “control center”).
Don’t mess up your installation by installing versions from different sources in parallel. The general organisation of the support directories may be different which will translate into slightly different behaviours. This becomes obvious when you edit a document in both versions.
On my Fedora Linux, current package version is 7.3.6.2 which is not very far from yours. Just be patient until package maintainers update the repository.
PS: the update option you can see mentioned sometimes is a Windows feature because LO update policy is not integrated as it is under Linux. Therefore a special implementation is needed. Under Linux, everything is smoothly done by the package manager.
1 Like
Thanks for the reply. I’m new to Linux and LibreOffice. I recently installed LO 7.4.1.2 under Win11 and also just installed Linux Mint on another machine that came bundled with LO 7.3.2.2.
So what you’re saying is to treat updating LO under Windows and Linux differently? Under Win11 I’ll manually check for updates, etc. but under Linux just let the “package maintainers” update LO and don’t do it myself? I assume package maintainers means whomever maintains my Linux Distro (Mint) and I’ll be notified by them when those updates are available?
You won’t get notified of available updates. Just run regularly the package manager. It will upgrade the OS and all installed applications. I do it once a week on my laptop (a secondary machine I use only on the move with the bare minimum) and every day on my desktop (mainly for security reasons and also because many apps are present – so I prefer many small updates [in storage space needed] to an infrequent huge update).