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Hey, guys. I'm on Betsy, so I'm very unfamiliar with ppas; but I'm installing Rafaela for somebody else. I want to add the LibreOffice ppa so they can have the latest version of Libreoffice on their machine. After reading https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa and http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/libr ... linux-mint I'm a bit confused. What ppa should I use?
Clarification: I'm looking for LibreOffice "fresh", not any alpha or beta releases. :)

Thanks!
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Re: LibreOffice PPA

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This one: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa. So add "ppa:libreoffice/ppa" on the PPA tab in Software Sources.

BTW, Linux Mint 17.2 comes with 4.4.3 so is already pretty recent (newest would be 4.4.4; minor differences).
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Hi Fred,

How's it going?

I agree with xenopeek, and I use the same ppa "ppa:libreoffice/ppa" to have the latest stable LibreOffice v4.4

From a console terminal prompt, type in each line one by one, or copy & paste each line:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice


You can check the version after installation by bringing it up and going to "help", then "about".

Hope this helps ...
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Re: LibreOffice PPA

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That doesn't help phd21; this isn't the LibreOffice Fresh version that Fred asked about. Your PPA will keep you on the 4.4 branch of LibreOffice, while the PPA I gave provides you with the Fresh branch of LibreOffice—Fresh being the latest stable release. So when shortly LibreOffice 5.0 is released you won't upgrade to it with that PPA.
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xenopeek wrote:That doesn't help phd21; this isn't the LibreOffice Fresh version that Fred asked about. Your PPA will keep you on the 4.4 branch of LibreOffice, while the PPA I gave provides you with the Fresh branch of LibreOffice—Fresh being the latest stable release. So when shortly LibreOffice 5.0 is released you won't upgrade to it with that PPA.
Hi Fred and xenopeek,

I totally agree, and I do use the PPA "xenopeek" mentioned. I posted the other based on Fred's link. I modified the previous post. Thank you for pointing this out...
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Thanks for this, guys. Another item off my "to do" list.
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Thanks xenopeek and phd21. I'm working on Windows 7 updates on the same machine (yawn ;) ) so I can't try this yet, but I will ASAP.

Kinda ironic, MS just refused the product key I'd recovered for Office on this machine. Nice to not have to worry about any of that with Linux! :D
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One thing to add if we're talking about Linux Mint 17.2; in addition to adding the LibreOffice Fresh PPA you also need to raise the APT priority for this repository else nothing will be installed from it through Update Manager. I didn't think about that before, but from somebody's problem with getting anything installed from this PPA on Linux Mint 17.2 I've written this short guide: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=201522
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Thanks xenopeek. I had two LO updates after this step. :)
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