LO updates for Ubuntu 10.04

I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and a PPA for LO, but I have yet to see an
update from my 3.3.2 to the current 3.3.4. Do I need to add another PPA
or do something else?

Thanks,
Dave

Hi :slight_smile:
The 3.3.2 has fairly long term support so there is no problem with staying
with it. The newer features are mostly in the 3.4.x branch but then that
tends not to have the stability/support and might need upgrading much more
often. The 3.4.3 apparently gives the best of both but like you i'm
sticking with the 3.3.2 for now. You can install by downloading and
installing outside of your package manager .

You can have 2 or more instances of LibreOffice installed on the same
machine but this guide helps avoid the problems that are likely to arise
with that.
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Tom,

Thanks for the note. I was concerned that the Ubuntu Update Manager
never seems to have LO updates. I like to stay current, but I also want
to stay stable. So I'll wait and hopefully when things are sorted out
there will be an update.

Dave,

Hi :slight_smile:
I'm not expecting any up-dates tbh. LibreOffice does full upgrades rather
than minor updates because it develops so fast. Is there a particular
problem that you are waiting for a fix for?

People in the documentation team tend to download the "upstream" version
from the web-site
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
to help make sure screen-shots are consistent across different distros. The
instructions for how to install on gnu&linux are just being up-dated but it
might be a week before the proof-reading and uploading gets done. I think
the current instructions are good enough to work out.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Are you running 32 or 64 bit version of Ubuntu? Desktop or laptop? Does not really matter, but it would be nice to know.

I use Ubuntu 10.04, 64-bit, as my default desktop. I run 3.4.1 right now, but will be going to 3.4.3 soon. I just download the files I need from LO and install it using the terminal. There is an easy to use set of instructions on the LO site. It takes a few minutes to download the files with broadband. Then I extract them. I rename the main folder to ease my typing needs. Then I use the "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" command in the DEBS folder, and then again in the sub-folder there. I do the same for the help-pack I use. Take maybe 5 minutes after the download is completed.

This is the link to the install instructions using the Terminal
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/
If you do not know where it is, go to Applications>Accessories.

Is there any reason that you cannot do this on your system? Some people have trouble using Terminal, but it gets easier the more you use it. I never used Terminal till I stated using Ubuntu [9.x] early last year. Then 10.04 came out and I went to it. My monitor has issues with 11.04, so I have not updated to it yet.

On some of the systems I have dealt with for myself and mostly for others, I placed 3.3.3 and then 3.3.4 on them. My default laptop dual-boots with Vista and Ubuntu 10.04. Windows I have 3.3.3 on it, while I have 3.4.1 on the Ubuntu boot. I have not updated either, since I rarely use the laptop, and do not have the time to update the laptop with all the updates that are out there for my used free software.

Sometime soon, I will be going to 3.4.3 on my 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. When I get a better monitor, I will be upgrading to 11.x for that desktop. The 3.3.x line looks to end with 3.3.5 which will be "supported" for at least another year after that. When the 3.3.x line ends the 3.5.x line will begin, and 3.4.x will be what 3.3.x is now and 3.5.x will be the "cutting edge" line. Soon 3.4.x will be ready for business use. The sporadic spell checker issue for Windows that has cropped up hopefully be fixed by then. Since I not have 3.4.3 installed on XP and do not have any issues with the spell checker, it seems not to be a bug that effects the greater percentage than those it does not cause problem with.

So, if you want to go to 3.4.3 on your Ubuntu machine, go for it. After the download, it take little time and only a few commands in Terminal.

Hi :slight_smile:
I think the original poster was just curious why there haven't been any updates but i'm not entirely certain.  A lot of people prefer to stay with the repos and rarely even use ppas let alone installing directly from unfamiliar websites.

It's good to have the choice :)  I'm happily staying with the 3.3.2 in the ppa :slight_smile:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

I do not use PPAs. I either get from the repositories from Ubuntu or from the software's site. I have only about 3 or 4 packages, other than LO, that I use that are not either in the Ubuntu repositories anymore, or never was there in the first place.

The fact that packages like LO are updating every few months makes it one that the repositories may never want to try to keep up and modify their repositories every time the package comes out with an update or upgrade. Also, now that there are going to be 2 lines of LO going at the same time, repositories will not want to have both line, or three lines when 3.5.x line comes out.

I'm fine with the situation. I was concerned that I had missed
something, but it looks I'm ok. So, I'll wait until LO is ready for the
next release.

Dave,

I use 32-bit, Desktop. I would do the download, but it appears that
there is no urgent reason to do so.

Dave,

Hi :slight_smile:
I think people get confused about the difference between updates and
upgrades. I think of updates as being things that get added to an existing
install. Whereas an upgrade is a new version that tends to be better as a
fresh install and tends to take over from the old version. It's a very
blurry line tho.

In Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 LibreOffice is not in the official Ubuntu repos
but is in a ppa (or few). PPAs seem to be small repositories that are
maintained by individuals or relatively small communities. I'm not sure who
maintains the LibreOffice ppa but it is up to them when they push through a
newer version of LibreOffice. I have a feeling that the LibreOffice ppa is
quite a reasonably well sized community and is probably the people that
looked after OpenOffice/Go-OO in the official Ubuntu repos and the same
people that look after LO in the 11.04 and 11.10 official repos. It's
tricky because there is a lot of overlap between the different communities
but i think the ppa is not official recognised or maintained by The Document
Foundation.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

The only big thing for me for downloading the next version is the fact that the newer versions tend to do the .docx and the .xltx reading better than the older ones. I think 3.4.x line may do it better than the 3.3.x line, of so I have heard.

So I kept 3.4.1 on my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop, and now looking to update it to 3.4.3 in the next week or so. [As soon as I finish fixing a computer for a friend]