LibreOffice 4.3 (4.2) [SOLVED]

[xfrank]

I do appreciate the quick update of Firefox (30 to 31) today, but I really miss an update of LibreOffice. LMDE is still at 4.1 version, while the actual version is 4.3.
I tried to activate the Testing repositories to do the update myself but I was asked to change too many packages, so I given up.

[xenopeek]

You're mixing a few things up. Firefox 31 is a security upgrade, LibreOffice 4.3 isn't--just a new release with new features. Hence you get Firefox quickly, while LibreOffice will take longer.

Few facts:
- LibreOffice 4.3 is still in experimental; it isn't even in unstable yet, so it's not close to going into testing: https://packages.qa.debian.org/libr/libreoffice.html
- If you didn't follow all that, useful to read the lifecyle of a Debian release (it has a few helpful diagrams): http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stab ... cycle.html
- Once LibreOffice 4.3 would arrive in testing, in the past on LMDE you would have had to wait till LMDE did a next UP (update pack) to get it on LMDE

If you've missed the news, there won't be any more UPs as LMDE will migrate from Debian testing as a package base to Debian stable: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2671#comment-111529

It may still be that LibreOffce 4.3 migrates to testing before testing gets frozen to become the eventual Debian 8--and you'd get it on LMDE that way.

Alternatives for now:
- You can download the .deb files from the LibreOffice website itself; 4.3 is available there
- You could compile it from source
- You could get it from Debian experimental

[gtsfer]

The Debian Lifecycle link is excellent. Thanks xenopeek! I particularly liked that the Debian Developer was depicted as a stick-man. Until I saw that the end user (that's me) looks just the same.

[killer de bug]

You can take 4.2.5 from Wheezy backports. It's probably easier to install.

[xfrank]

Thanks Xenopeek and Killer.
I won't install directly .debs (I know how to do it, I did several times) because this way LO installs as LibreOffice4.2 (or 4.3), differently than the version in the repositories (just "libreoffice").

I tried the Killer's solution and activated the Weezy backports in mintsources:

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deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main

but when I open synaptic no packages are available to update. Maybe I did something wrong?

[killer de bug]

I tried the Killer's solution and activated the Weezy backports in mintsources:

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deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main

but when I open synaptic no packages are available to update. Maybe I did something wrong?

That's because when you want to install a package from backport you need to say it explicitely.

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sudo apt-get install [i]libreoffice[/i] -t wheezy-backports

[xfrank]

I tried, but I had dependency errors:

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xflmde xfrank # apt-get install -t wheezy-backports libreoffice
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias       
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
No se pudieron instalar algunos paquetes. Esto puede significar que
usted pidió una situación imposible o, si está usando la distribución
inestable, que algunos paquetes necesarios no han sido creados o han
sido movidos fuera de Incoming.
La siguiente información puede ayudar a resolver la situación:

Los siguientes paquetes tienen dependencias incumplidas:
 libreoffice : Depende: libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.5-1~bpo70+1) pero 1:4.1.3-1 va a ser instalado
               Depende: libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer pero no va a instalarse o
                        libreoffice-avmedia-backend-vlc pero no va a instalarse
               Depende: python-uno pero no va a instalarse
E: No se pudieron corregir los problemas, usted ha retenido paquetes rotos.

I guess I have to stay with LO 4.1 until the Mint team will complete the transition of LMDE to Debian Stable...

[gtsfer]

Do you need to do an "apt update" after activating backports? I dunno for sure. I'm asking because I had to do that after adding a repository on a LMDE boot flash stick that I'm testing with. Activating backports could be completely different.

[xfrank]

I did. After changing the repositories always is recommended to do an apt-get update.

The question now is: anybody did recently an upgrade of LO by activating the weezy backports?

[Monsta]

Why not simply install 4.2.6 from Debian Testing?

[xfrank]

Thanks Monsta, I did!

1 - I added and activated the testing repos (opening the terminal, then mintsources):

deb http://packages.domain.com/ testing main
deb http://us.debian.org/debian/ testing non-free contrib main

2 - in the terminal I did an apt-get update, then apt-get install libreoffice, then apt-get install libreoffice-gnome (for the gnome integration)

3 - finally, I checked synaptic, here I found four packages of LO to update (including spanish translation), and I updated all.

All seems OK to me. I have LO 4.2.6.2!!!

I love Linux

[Monsta]

Side note: it's better to use http.debian.net which will automatically redirect you to the fastest mirror:

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deb http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free

And don't forget to remove Testing repos after you're done with the installation, or you may accidentally end up upgrading your LMDE to Testing.