On 12 December 2013 18:03, Bev Nicolson lumos@gmx.co.uk wrote:
I'm using 3.5 which I've just updated to. Ubuntu always seems to be a bit behind on these things but I've never been that confident about updating from anything other than Synaptic as it seems to work better.
Updating from a PPA works in the same way (I gave command line examples but Synaptic works the same). It's just a question of adding an extra repository to the list it looks at.
Now I would agree that adding random repositories from any source isn't a Good Thing [TM] if you want a stable system, and you shouldn't take the word of someone posting on a mailing list that it's a good idea either. However the LO repository I pointed to is created by the LO team, although it will contain development builds. A better one (also from the LO team) is: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-4-1 .. which holds backported* versions of the 4.1 series of LO for older Ubuntu releases.
*Backporting: Taking a version of a package tested and working on a newer version, and making whatever changes are needed (and testing them) to make it run on an older version.