[libreoffice-users] Re: Installing LibreOffice Updates In Linux

Thanks for the reply.

I believe that I will still continue to manually remove LibreOffice then,
install the new version.

I did use the "purge" in the past installs.  Maybe the next install I will
fore go using the "purge" option.

Michael





On 10/14/2013 21:59 PM, krackedpress [via Document Foundation Mail 
Archive] wrote:
> On 10/13/2013 10:39 PM, Help_Please wrote:
> > I am currently running v4.1.2.3 on my copy of Linux Mint Cinnamon.  No
> > problem to speak of regarding this.  However, my question is this 
> .... from
> > what I have seem (searched) online about installing LibreOffice on 
> Linux, I
> > saw a requirement to uninstall/remove any previous version of 
> LibreOffice
> > before installing the new version using the Terminal.  is this still
> > necessary?  Thanks.
>
> I do not know if it is still needed for going from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3, but
> it should be done for things like 4.0.5 to 4.1.2.
>
> There may be issues with "launch menus" and other parts of the setup
> that could be negatively affected by not uninstalling LO before the new
> version is installed.
>
> What I do is always uninstall first, just to be safe.
>
> Of course, if you are getting your install from the OS repository, then
> they do the work for you.
>
> I use the following command
> sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*
>
> if you use "purge" it will remove all of the config files, but you may
> not want to do that.
>
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