Re: libreoffice 7 problems

[didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com>]

Hello Paul,

Obviously, I could be mistaken,

but what you see as a Libreoffice problem, I'm inclined to interpret it 
as a global upgrade problem: Libreoffice 7.0 was present in Debian 11 
Bullseye (OldOldStable), Libreoffice 7.4 was present in Debian 12 
Bookworm (OldStable). In Sid (Unstable) you should only have Libreoffice 
25.8.
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libreoffice&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all

Either your PC was an OldOldStable installation before your migrating to 
Unstable, or it was an ill-migrated Stable from OldOldStable before your 
migrating to Unstable.

Even if you manage to upgrade parts of your distro that are still not 
upgraded, you risk misconfigurations because Debian only support 
iterative major upgrades (in your case, Debian 11>12>13>Unstable, not 
Debian 11>Unstable). Probably because of post-install scripts in packages.

If you list the obsolete packages on your system (apt list '~o'), you 
probably have a respectable number of them (In a proper
Debian Stable with only Debian packages, you have none).

I would advise you to backup your data, install proper Debian 13 Stable 
Trixie, modernize its repositories list:
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Upgrading_to_the_new_format
to the deb822 format:
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#debian.sources_format

and only then migrate to Sid (Unstable)