Those PPA's work fine with Mint. You can also select another version, for example 5-2. This method will replace your current version. Updates to your selected version (5.1.x or 5.2.x, etc) are provided through the package system. This is more convenient versus manually downloading and installing each new version. This link describes these PPAs: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > On 10/31/2016 06:53 PM, gordon cooper wrote: > > > On 01/11/16 09:16, Robert Großkopf wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Tim, > What I do is unpack the install files [I use .deb files] and place > them all in a temporary folder I call "lib". Nice and simple, I > have that folder in the "home" folder called "timothy". > > This will give me "/home/timothy/lib" while using the file manager > package [on Mint] called "Caja". > > > Then I use the "Mate Terminal" [default command line for the MATE > desktop GUI] > > This is my starting point for this laptop - yours will look > different since you will not have the same laptop and user name. > This is the default user folder for my laptop. > > timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~$ > > I type in "cd lib" > > timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~$ cd lib > > I get this folder shown > > timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~/lib$ > > At this point I use this command to install all of the .deb files > from that folder. I tend to place both the language and help .deb > files - if needed - in a different folder like lib2. > > sudo dpkg -i *.deb > > This will prompt me to five my superuser password. Then it will > start a "long" install process for all of the .deb files in the > folder. The RPM system would have some different names for the > commands I use for the DEB based Linux OS [ I use Ubuntu with Mate > desktop] > > So, if you have a folder off your home folder [or directory] with > the name of "lib" [home/timothy/lib], the command line is a very > easy route. > > cd lib > > sudo dpkg -i *.deb > > After looking for this in the web I would make it the same way you > have described here. It's a little bit different to the tool, which is > delivered with OpenSuSE for system-managing with YAST, but it will > work well. > Don't know how to add a dircetory as repository in other sytems. But > with OpenSUSE it works well. > > Regards > > Robert > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJYF6a7AAoJELDKYwaoS9AI8moP/A2yuXifFabBdnXBSwAEABtJ > jhQfL8toi78UWYHKOTiAZ+eb4gRWjnq50SPjanxoako43ogYG8nNHqsIhEavsUta > TBbYXRRvoJBAnPOf7sxqOnwGzg2fbH5LvfDnAZ1WXXqUgYiPU+2eEzDJDT2keeDi > jTJJ2LloO8qUE//BLYp/FjJDzyGWohLM7wbobPul76lydRAO4uEL/uRwEJT7avxH > d7LuGm6QDfsmcSW/9Es4e60lBuLehYQ8w4K1JAbhiDrhmn0qLR8ITw3iwuOCl5pe > 3M0gOJwPqqGdYmhG3eOyBbwDzsl2nNXhXWwKV+QmhoPFQqxtIR6NqAyDs+9phmLA > RkjU2J9qoInFoijgnI+TST7KQcS64a5IZFLfjde+JIZvXQ2KENxXm4Sfqtwu2meP > J7ezu4E4QixGDHT31hSeQef7haO4jjt4jw87qPtZEE697QRYqTnHwKN4+BtYDWjH > RM5xQzvLhe/ZwjrukD9w6hSKvdSZ40fdHzNJ8clgm7TI5ZWUI9T4gMQnmYmBP9/7 > Kuw8IT7TQw0D+f0ED6XFCQznJ3Zqbb6zlVaZlMLq2TjCtppoTX7wjnJMtQiys3ZC > BV9JaahIxvGzJmKqaO081MPR2tL1U2T/Ilif23itpmXo3WTqXanQU3K0/8HoKR9E > hwpgDjhkMMTnNGkNqAGn > =ZRW9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > This installation method all looks overly complicated to me, and is one > of the reasons that I swapped over to MX-Linux where the system comes > as a package with installation instructions/prompts included. Plus the > bonus > that the User Manual can be read/downloaded beforehand. > > Gordon. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
