LibreOffice not updating

[Keith]

On 6/26/21 5:04 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I've got 5 machines running the Xubuntu flavor of Ubuntu, Focal Fossa
> LTS.  I'm not sure how I accomplished it, but all five have LibreOffice
> running version 6.4.6.2.  I notice that Libre Office's current version
> is 7.1.4.2, and I'd like to upgrade.  I don't see an option to do that
> (possibly short of getting off my LTS and into a later Ubuntu -- but I'd
> rather not do that).
>
> I downloaded the latest .deb files from LibreOffice, and installed
> them.  I still get the old LibreOffice when I use the usual "soffice'
> command or 'libreoffice'.
>
> I'm missing something, I'm sure, but have no idea what or how to find
> out other than asking here.
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman
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Invoke from the command line with

$ libreoffice7.1

That's a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin which points to the Libreoffice
7.1.x soffice script in the /opt/libreoffice7.1/program directory.

I would have thought, though, that upon installation your application
menu would have some new entries pointing to the 7.1.x versions of the
Libreoffice executables so you wouldn't have to start the program from
the command line. Is the "libreoffice7.1-debian-menus_7.1.4.2_all.deb"
package installed?

--
Keith