Allan Duncan <amd2345@fastmail.com.au> writes:
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.
Except that current binary packages (.deb) will be built against current library soversions. On an old release the versions will probably be too old, or not present at all. It's possible to finesse such things, but the difficulty is proportional to the size/complexity of the package, and how far you need to backport it. For the OP's goal, both are significant. There may also be backport & ppa repos; can't see any of the former for LO4 on lucid: bash4$ rmadison -udebian,ubuntu -asource libreoffice debian: libreoffice | 1:3.3.2-2~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | source libreoffice | 1:3.3.3-4~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | source libreoffice | 1:3.4.3-3~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | source libreoffice | 1:3.5.4-7~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | source libreoffice | 1:3.5.4+dfsg-3~bpo60+2 | squeeze-backports | source libreoffice | 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u2 | wheezy | source libreoffice | 1:4.0.3-2~bpo70+1 | wheezy-backports | source libreoffice | 1:4.1.2-2~bpo70+1 | wheezy-backports | source libreoffice | 1:4.1.4-2~bpo70+1 | wheezy-backports | source libreoffice | 1:4.1.5-2 | jessie | source libreoffice | 1:4.1.5-2 | sid | source libreoffice | 1:4.2.2~rc1-1 | experimental | source ubuntu: libreoffice | 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 | precise | source libreoffice | 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 | precise-security | source libreoffice | 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu5 | precise-updates | source libreoffice | 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu3 | quantal | source libreoffice | 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4 | quantal-updates | source libreoffice | 1:4.1.2~rc3-0ubuntu1 | saucy | source libreoffice | 1:4.1.3-0ubuntu1 | saucy-updates | source libreoffice | 1:4.2.3~rc2-0ubuntu1 | trusty | source