Live data stream

[Desperado]

Hi
My actual operating system is Linux Mint 20.3 with its included stable Libre Office version.
Since i am working a lot with Arduino, i would like the live data stream function in Calc, but my Calc version does not include this functionality.

I saw in the help topics that the newest version of Libre Office, includes this functionality.
Is it possible to install the newer Libre Office version next to the included version of Linux Mint 20.3 without getting problems ?

Regards and thanks for the tips.

[Wanderer]

@Desperado

Is it possible to install the newer Libre Office version next to the included version

Yes, but always keep a backup of your profile, see here
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel

[Desperado]

Thanks for the tip.

[Villeroy]

/opt/libreoffice7.4/program/bootstraprc has a line:

UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/libreoffice/4/

OPen the file as root and replace the 4 with 7 and the program will use ~/.config/libreoffice/7/user/ as its own user profile.
You have to repeat this edit after every upgrade.

[erAck]

Caveat, I recommend to not simply use another number there but name a subdirectory instead; because if tomorrow the next version 7.y for whatever reason (very unlikely but…) would need to migrate user profiles (like was done from 3 to 4) it would probably do so in a 7/ subdirectory but if that already exists …

[Villeroy]

~/.config/libreoffice/seven/user/