Daniel Jitnah wrote:
Thats why RedHat/Centos and to some extent Debian (stable) tend to have slightly older versions of software. For example LO is version 4.3.x in the latest version of Debian 8, but the latest version of LO is 5.0.5 (I think).
FTR, LO5 is available in Debian 8 (jessie) as a backport. $ rmadison libreoffice -aamd64 -uubuntu,debian ubuntu: libreoffice | 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 | precise | amd64 libreoffice | 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu8 | precise-security | amd64 libreoffice | 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu8 | precise-updates | amd64 libreoffice | 1:4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu2 | trusty/universe | amd64 libreoffice | 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2 | trusty-security/universe | amd64 libreoffice | 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2 | trusty-updates/universe | amd64 libreoffice | 1:4.4.2-0ubuntu1 | vivid/universe | amd64 libreoffice | 1:4.4.2-0ubuntu2 | vivid-proposed/universe | amd64 libreoffice | 1:5.0.1-0ubuntu2 | wily/universe | amd64 debian: libreoffice | 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u2 | wheezy | amd64 libreoffice | 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u4~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | amd64 libreoffice | 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u4 | wheezy-security | amd64 libreoffice | 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u1~bpo70+1 | wheezy-backports | amd64 libreoffice | 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u1 | jessie-security | amd64 libreoffice | 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u1 | jessie | amd64 libreoffice | 1:5.0.1-1~bpo8+2 | jessie-backports | amd64 libreoffice | 1:5.0.1-1 | stretch | amd64 libreoffice | 1:5.0.1-1 | sid | amd64