On 10/31/16 6:45 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
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
Hi, Virgil,
Method 2 does not work for me. Theory, the Synaptic Package Manager in
17.3 is a bit different than what you have seen. The exact steps you
mentioned can't be done, and I made my "best guess" as to the correct
selections I see in 17.3 here. What I've ended up with is a cursor that
indicates things are locked up. On my Mac, it would be the "spinning
beach ball of death", in Windows the endless rotating hourglass cursor. LOL
I can hop over to the Linux Mint forums about this if that is your
suggestion. Or I can go ahead and try Method 1.
For others following this thread, I have a number of messages flagged to
reply to, but I want to work with Method 2 and see if I can get it to
work before replying to the flagged messages.
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