Install libreoffice 24.8.2?

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Linux system, Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS, Dowwnloaded and executed the ./install for libreoffice 24.8.2. The previous install was from the ubuntu software, 24.2.6.2.

Fine. It installed, I can (apparently) get it by typing libreoffice at a command prompt.

Then we are in crazyland. My old libreoffice icons still go to 24.2.6.2. I don’t know what typing libreoffice at the command line gives, version->help says 7.6.7.2. What is that? The recent documents are different, and wrong, so I can’t open them, and all of the create icons are greyed out, so I can’t create anything. Use open file to open an .odt document, I get a werid menu that wants me to open it as a chart.

I just want to upgrade the version of libreoffice. I don’t care if it keeps or does not keep the old version. The installation seems damaged, even though it ran fine. What is going on?

#2

maybe start from command line - What is the correct way to completely remove an application? - Ask Ubuntu

probably should start caring a bit though :wink:

#3

Problem one: Ubuntu does include only “minor” upgrades by default. So if it came with 6.3 apt will never upgrade this to 7.x, because it is not in the repository by Ubuntu.
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Next: They introduced Snap, so you can have newer vesions independent of apt, but if you don’t care you may have two versions now…
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If you download a third one (from ??) you as admin of your system can install this on top and create your “crazyland”
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I’d recommend to backup your files and the profiles, especially if you have pacros/dictionaries/Extensions or altered the menu/toolbars.
Then remove all versions of LibreOffice.
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As a last step, decide wich version you wish to use and install from the selected source (there is also flatpack…). Then stay with source for updates or welcome crazyland sgain…
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Maybe easier: Backup your files including profiles, then install a current Ubuntu…

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I found a solution specific to Ubuntu that is similar to fpy’s. It uses purge. Its odd, because it actually didn’t get rid of the old version, as evidenced by the fact I could still execute it by icons. I erased the icons and remade them, now ok.

The key for those instructions was installing a repo so that the ubuntu application menu could do the work.

I don’t understand the versioning at all. The old was 24.x and now everything is 7.x something? WTF?

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This means, that what you did wasn’t what you wanted (so you might want to familiarize yourself with the different packaging options that Linux provides to you, creating a great flexibility, and the great complexity at the same time, requiring you to be an expert to avoid disaster): you have now an older version, not an updated one.

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I take it back. The “update” procedure I found just reinstalls the old version. I am hosed.

#8

There is a “fresh” lts release from this year for ubuntu. But backup your current config and files first…
https://ubuntu.com/blog/upgrade-your-desktop-ubuntu-24-04-lts

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