Libre Office 4 - How to Upgrade

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Libre Office 4 - How to Upgrade

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Mint 14 64 bit Cinnamon.

How to upgrade from Libre Office 3.6.x to 4.0?
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Re: Libre Office 4 - How to Upgrade

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Any ideas?
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Re: Libre Office 4 - How to Upgrade

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Purge all Libre Office 3.6.x (command line or synaptic including some "autoremovable" files after the process). Download from libreoffice site the whole package + the help package (deb for *buntu, mint or debian flavours). Unzip, untar go inside the folder with deb packages and give the command:

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sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Do the same in all folders you have deb packages. Libre Office will be installed in /opt/libreoffice. Maybe you will have to make some simlinks from /opt/libreoffice/programs/swriter (and all the others programs scalc, sdraw, simpress, etc) to /usr/bin

There is a problem: sometimes, when you install packages that are connected to libreoffice you may go into a conflict (synaptic will try to install libreoffice from repos). Don't know exctly how to resolve that problem. Usually I gave up to install the program that ask for libreoffice from repo. I also presume that there are ppa repos with the last libreoffice.
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Re: Libre Office 4 - How to Upgrade

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Thanx 4 reply.

Can LO4 will appear in SoftwareManager, or can be installed by update manager?
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If you download from their site, the update won't appear in Software Manager and is not possible to install by update manager.

More explanation are here:

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/libreoff ... nload.html
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