Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to upgrade from (Swedish-language) LO 4.0.2.2 to 4.0.3.3 on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

2013/5/20 Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>

> Hi :)
> Sometime during install it should ask if you want the new version to be
> the default app for MS formats.  Unfortunately i don't think it asks about
> ODF formats.
>
> There is a page in the wiki about "Installing on Linux" that might help to
> remove all versions and then reinstall the newer ones from the downloads
> you kept.  (You did keep the didn't you?).  I guess you can always
> re-download if you have to, or encourage a buddy too and then copy there's
> "to check them".
>
> On Debian-family, incls Ubuntu you can remove all versions of LibreOffice
> with a command something like
>
> sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*
>
> but please try
>
> apt-get --help
>
> (with a space just before the --) to check that is not the one tht removes
> all your configurations too.  There is one apt-get 'tag' to remove all
> setting, configs and everything, and a different 'tag' to just remove the
> programs but keep the configs.  The later is usually preferable to avoid
> having to set everything up the way you like again from scratch.
> Regards from
> Tom :)

Thanks, Tom & Dan, but as I surmised, it was indeed a PPA thing and Rico
Tzschichholz came through with an update that resolved my problem just 12
hours ago. Kudos to him for his great work - next time LO is updated, I'll
attempt to exhibit a tad more patience !...

Henri

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