LibreOffice On CentOS 7

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I am running the default version of LibreOffice 5.3.6.1 on CentOS 7. This is quite an old version and has a serious bug in Calc, possibly an errant pointer, that frequently locks up spreadsheets.

Has anyone installed a later version of LO on CentOS 7? I would prefer a version that is not flatpak, snap or appimage etc…

9 thoughts on - LibreOffice On CentOS 7

  • A general dislike of anything that gets between the operating system and an application potentially introducing its own complications.

    Does anyone happen to know what the latest native version for CentOS 7 is?

  • 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64. I check for updates every day.

    Jeff

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    To: “CentOS mailing list”
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    Sent: Wednesday November 2 2022 6:28:52AM
    Subject: Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice on CentOS 7

    >
    >> I am running the default version of LibreOffice 5.3.6.1 on CentOS
    7.
    >This
    >> is quite an old version and has a serious bug in Calc, possibly an
    >errant
    >> pointer, that frequently locks up spreadsheets.
    >>
    >> Has anyone installed a later version of LO on CentOS 7? I would
    >prefer a
    >> version that is not flatpak, snap or appimage etc…
    >>
    >
    >Could you elaborate why you would like to avoid those packaging
    >formats?
    >
    >josh
    >

  • –Such problems are inevitable when you choose the long-term stability of an old operating system like RHEL. There will always be a tug-of-war between the needs of bleeding-edge apps and the aging OS. Apps want to use features in the latest libraries. So they’re either crippled when run on the older OS or they carry more recent copies of those libraries with them, solely for their own use.

    I’m a fan of sandboxing for security. I’ve installed web applications (like NodeRED and WordPress) in their own user directories to protect the OS. The trendy solution is containers. I’m worried about how easy it is to back those up. Do I back up the contents, or the whole container file? Ideally I’d just need to incrementally back up the locally-changing part, the configuration and data, since the installer has everything else. The other solution is OS-independent packaging, like those you named. I wasn’t familiary with them so I looked them up:

    <https://phoenixnap.com/kb/flatpak-vs-snap-vs-appimage>

  • Why not simply download the latest and greatest version LibreOffice from their we site I’ve been doing that for several years on both CentOS 7
    and now Rocky 8 and it has worked without fail.

  • Sorry, my misunderstanding. The version I gave is the version of CentOS7, the version of LibreOffice is 5.3.6.1-25.el7_9.

    —————————————–From: “Pete Geenhuizen”

    To: “CentOS mailing list”, “H”
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    Sent: Thursday November 3 2022 7:52:59AM
    Subject: Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice on CentOS 7

    Why not simply download the latest and greatest version LibreOffice from their we site I’ve been doing that for several years on both CentOS 7
    and now Rocky 8 and it has worked without fail.

    >> >
    >> >> I am running the default version of LibreOffice 5.3.6.1 on CentOS
    >> 7.
    >> >This
    >> >> is quite an old version and has a serious bug in Calc, possibly an
    >> >errant
    >> >> pointer, that frequently locks up spreadsheets.
    >> >>
    >> >> Has anyone installed a later version of LO on CentOS 7? I would
    >> >prefer a
    >> >> version that is not flatpak, snap or appimage etc…
    >> >>
    >> >
    >> >Could you elaborate why you would like to avoid those packaging
    >> >formats?
    >> >
    >> >josh
    >> >