On 29/03/14 23:18, Mark Trickett wrote:
Hello Alan,
On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 22:30 +1100, Allan Duncan wrote:
On 28/03/14 13:28, Carl Turney wrote:
Hi All,
I'm trying to upgrade my LibreOffice from 4.0.2.2 to 4.2.2, on my Ubuntu 10.4 Desktop. ...
Umm, I come from the world of rpms but the principle is the same:
Download the .debs from LibreOffice (in tar'd and zip'd form) unpack them and use whatever command it is to do the install. Not synaptic - it might be possible to point it at local stuff but I have no idea how. Use the command line utility - apt-install or something like that.
No need to unpack, and putting in the right directory, apt-get will just find and unpack, although I think that there are also ways to tell it to just look locally. The .deb is an archive anyway. Much the same is also true of an .rpm, one archive file, compressed I seem to remember, with everything included. The .deb will also include preinstall and postinstall scripts, along with similar for the uninstall if required. The inclusion and effectiveness is almost fascist in the way they are required, and required to actually work, to the benefit of the user.
No, the files from LibreOffice are tars of a stack of .deb's or .rpm's. I don't know if there is a front end for apt-* to handle that. With the rpm version I spend a little time to unpack the three tars (main, help and language) into a single directory, delete three rpms that don't apply to me, then point rpm at them and it does all its magic and I have the latest edition long before Redhat has gone through its tweaking and validation process. I _ought to_ make a script to do it, but...