Allan Duncan <amd2345@fastmail.com.au> writes:
Download the .debs from LibreOffice [...] Except that current binary packages (.deb) will be built against current library soversions. [...]
This is not the case if the package is statically linked, as it is in this case. Note that this only applies to the files on the LibreOffice site, not for a Debian sourced distro.
Hm, OK. I was (foolishly) assuming that upstream's debs would follow Debian conventions, where static linking is frowned upon (except in areas like ocaml & haskell, sigh.) IME glibc doesn't like static linking if your build and runtime hosts are more than a couple of years different in age. IIRC I built darcs (w/o libcurl) on Debian testing (ca. 2009/2010) to run on CentOS4 (2005-), and glibc just said "built against too new a glibc, piss off." Nearer stuff Just Worked on the very rare occasions I've done it. YMMV, good luck &c.