My version of LibreOffice is 24.2, loaded with LinuxMint. Version 26.2 is out. How do I upgrade? And, if the answer is to download from online, what download do I use? You give two options for Linux and my System Info does not specify.
Also, your ‘similar questions’ list seems to say that LibreOffice will simply update itself from Flatpak. But mine still identifies itself as 24.2. What’s to be done?
the flatpak-LO does NOT update by itself!
you need to execute from commandline:
flatpak upgrade
to install native packages for your LinuxMint goto https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/ choose the OS: Linux (64bit) (deb) OR if you on ARM-hardware like RaspberryPI take Linux (Arch64) (deb)
choose also your preferred Language-package and Help-packages.
ps. @sberg : since October/2025 there are native ARM/ARCH-packages from TDF available - does this mean the flatpak-stuff is going to be obsolete ?
A Flatpak under Linux is just an executable. Download the file, mark it as executable and execute. Delete the old one. I confused Flatpak with AppImage files.
There’s a discussion on the Linux Mint forum on this topic. There is also a discussion how to upgrade LibreOffice for a previous version. Each Linux Distribution may have a preferred way for software management.
not exactly…
Actually, I did just that. Go to the Software Manager, type in LibreOffice, then look for the version that is not already installed (no check mark). That should be the newest version.
what says uname -a ?
ps. @sberg : since October/2025 there are native ARM/ARCH-packages from TDF available - does this mean the flatpak-stuff is going to be obsolete ?
not sure why presence of native packages (for whatever architecture) would impact our decision whether or not to provide flatpaks; in this context, I’d see flatpaks more as “yet another packaging format” (deps, rpms, flatpaks, …)
I was just wondering why flatpak upgrade hasn’t downloaded LO26.2 yet.
Version: 25.8.4.2 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE
Flatpak
Calc: threaded
No idea why that didn’t work for you. Worked for me fine right now to install version 26.2.0.3 of org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/aarch64/stable from Flathub.
I’ve also no idea, but finally it works with:
flatpak uninstall org.libreoffice.LibreOffice
flatpak install org.libreoffice.LibreOffice