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In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, for general use, how to update LibreOffice from the default version installed by Canonical?

Are there reasons to leave it as is? I regularly use Software Updater to install recommended updates, and wonder why LibreOffice is still on an older version.

Archisman Panigrahi
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Frank P
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It is opinion-based, but having newer version of LibreOffice is IMHO good because of new features.

To install newer LibreOffice you have to use their official PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade # to get newest dependencies for sure

As the result you will get 7.1.6 (at time of writing) instead of default 6.4.7.

Note: reverting to default version is possible by sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa .

N0rbert
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