Installing LibreOffice Updates In Linux

I am currently running v4.1.2.3 on my copy of Linux Mint Cinnamon. No
problem to speak of regarding this. However, my question is this .... from
what I have seem (searched) online about installing LibreOffice on Linux, I
saw a requirement to uninstall/remove any previous version of LibreOffice
before installing the new version using the Terminal. is this still
necessary? Thanks.

Thanks for the reply.

I believe that I will still continue to manually remove LibreOffice then,
install the new version.

I did use the "purge" in the past installs. Maybe the next install I will
fore go using the "purge" option.

Michael