Re: Libreoffice 25.8 problem (was libreoffice 7 problems)
On 10/5/25 1:27 AM, didier gaumet wrote:
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§ion=all
My apologies! I don't know where I saw Libreoffice 7.0. It is indeed 2.8.
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)
I've been doing migrations/upgrades for years without this kind of
problem that I couldn't fix.
Thank you for your help,
Paul
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