[Trisquel-users] Re : What's with the out-of-date version of LibreOffice?

[lcerf]

Trisquel is a "stable" GNU/Linux distribution.  That means all major versions  
of all packages are frozen in the repository of a given version of Trisquel  
(e.g., Trisquel 8, which is based on Ubuntu 16.04).  Only some bugs (in  
particular vulnerabilities) are corrected.  One single exception is made for  
Abrowser.  For LibreOffice, Trisquel 8 will always have version 5.1.6.   
Trisquel 9 (when it will be released) will have version 6.0.3 because it will  
based on Ubuntu 18.04, which has that version of LibreOffice.

All that said, it is possible to install software that is not in Trisquel's  
repository: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ distributes deb  
packages.  With GDebi installed (by default in Trisquel 8), you can simply  
double click on the deb file in the file manager.