Here's how I did it with Ubuntu 14.04LTS. I imagine it might work with Mint, which is based on Ubuntu.
Method 1 I opened a command line terminal (With Ubuntu, it's Ctrl-Alt-t). I typed in the following commands, hitting <enter> after each line. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-5-1 sudo apt-get update After typing in the first line, you'll be prompted for your user password. The first line adds the repository for LO 5.1.x. The second line automatically updates your system to use it. Method 2 You can do the same thing through Synaptic Package Manager. Open Synaptic and click on Settings and then Repositories. In the Repositories dialog, click on Other Software, then click Add. Then type in ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-5-1 and click Add Source. You will be prompted to reload your software sources. Once you do that, you can click Mark All Upgrades. Synaptic will mark the LO packages that are to be updated. Click Apply and you'll be upgraded. Again, I've used both methods with Ubuntu. That said, I am not by any means an experienced Linux user. I tend to use Synaptic for all my software installation needs. I've never downloaded and installed a *.deb file. Instructions for these methods are found at: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/libreoffice-5-1. I don't know enough about Mint to know if it will work properly, but since Mint is based on Ubuntu, I tend to believe it will. Virgil On 10/31/2016 06:53 PM, gordon cooper wrote: On 01/11/16 09:16, Robert Großkopf wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tim, What I do is unpack the install files [I use .deb files] and place them all in a temporary folder I call "lib". Nice and simple, I have that folder in the "home" folder called "timothy". This will give me "/home/timothy/lib" while using the file manager package [on Mint] called "Caja". Then I use the "Mate Terminal" [default command line for the MATE desktop GUI] This is my starting point for this laptop - yours will look different since you will not have the same laptop and user name. This is the default user folder for my laptop. timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~$ I type in "cd lib" timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~$ cd lib I get this folder shown timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~/lib$ At this point I use this command to install all of the .deb files from that folder. I tend to place both the language and help .deb files - if needed - in a different folder like lib2. sudo dpkg -i *.deb This will prompt me to five my superuser password. Then it will start a "long" install process for all of the .deb files in the folder. The RPM system would have some different names for the commands I use for the DEB based Linux OS [ I use Ubuntu with Mate desktop] So, if you have a folder off your home folder [or directory] with the name of "lib" [home/timothy/lib], the command line is a very easy route. cd lib sudo dpkg -i *.deb After looking for this in the web I would make it the same way you have described here. It's a little bit different to the tool, which is delivered with OpenSuSE for system-managing with YAST, but it will work well. Don't know how to add a dircetory as repository in other sytems. But with OpenSUSE it works well. Regards Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJYF6a7AAoJELDKYwaoS9AI8moP/A2yuXifFabBdnXBSwAEABtJ jhQfL8toi78UWYHKOTiAZ+eb4gRWjnq50SPjanxoako43ogYG8nNHqsIhEavsUta TBbYXRRvoJBAnPOf7sxqOnwGzg2fbH5LvfDnAZ1WXXqUgYiPU+2eEzDJDT2keeDi jTJJ2LloO8qUE//BLYp/FjJDzyGWohLM7wbobPul76lydRAO4uEL/uRwEJT7avxH d7LuGm6QDfsmcSW/9Es4e60lBuLehYQ8w4K1JAbhiDrhmn0qLR8ITw3iwuOCl5pe 3M0gOJwPqqGdYmhG3eOyBbwDzsl2nNXhXWwKV+QmhoPFQqxtIR6NqAyDs+9phmLA RkjU2J9qoInFoijgnI+TST7KQcS64a5IZFLfjde+JIZvXQ2KENxXm4Sfqtwu2meP J7ezu4E4QixGDHT31hSeQef7haO4jjt4jw87qPtZEE697QRYqTnHwKN4+BtYDWjH RM5xQzvLhe/ZwjrukD9w6hSKvdSZ40fdHzNJ8clgm7TI5ZWUI9T4gMQnmYmBP9/7 Kuw8IT7TQw0D+f0ED6XFCQznJ3Zqbb6zlVaZlMLq2TjCtppoTX7wjnJMtQiys3ZC BV9JaahIxvGzJmKqaO081MPR2tL1U2T/Ilif23itpmXo3WTqXanQU3K0/8HoKR9E hwpgDjhkMMTnNGkNqAGn =ZRW9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- This installation method all looks overly complicated to me, and is one of the reasons that I swapped over to MX-Linux where the system comes as a package with installation instructions/prompts included. Plus the bonus that the User Manual can be read/downloaded beforehand. Gordon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
