Hello Carl, On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 13:28 +1100, 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.
(Yes, yes, I'll upgrade to Ubuntu 14.4 as soon as I get more powerful hardware and it comes out stable in April.)
Been there, done that, not exactly, but similar. This is an even older Ubuntu (8.04 Hardy Heron) when I did some major upgrading. It was necessary to hand edit the repositories as they do archive the older ones, but not where they were. I managed to update what I had, then dist-upgrade, then repeat. I did about four or five releases that way in a short time period, with significant amounts by dial up access, repeated ten hour connection sessions. This IBM A20m Thinkpad still works, but effectively EOL for software upgrades and a few other issues.
I followed the instructions here, which seems the most authoritative (it said nothing about upgrading, just installing):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice#Installing_a_newer_version_of_LibreOffic...
(I followed the steps in the above-cited section, as normal Synaptic updates stopped a long time ago on my system.)
But when I executed this command... sudo apt-get update ...I got (among others) this message:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-4-2/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main... 404 Not Found
The repository will be around, but at a different URI. They move the obsolete stuff to a different site. I do not have the details to hand at the moment, not certain whether I retained from my previously mentioned efforts. A lot of this is why I am migrating to Debian, but need to put together my next good desktop PC, but income is an issue.
So am I correct in assuming that I can't upgrade LibreOffice to 4.2.2 on my Ubuntu Lucid?
Not impossible, not necessarily all that difficult, but quite a trail to get there, and if the HW specs of the PC prevent a later release, then I would strongly suggest wait till newer PC.
Thanks very much,
Carl Turney Bayswater
Regards, Mark Trickett