The version of libreoffice included in 24.04 is based on a version at or above 7.5.0.0. As of that version a bug, or regression, LO bug 154975 (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154975) was introduced. As a result, LO print requests to large format printers, such as my Canon iX6820 cannot be printed with portrait orientation to standard 8.5×11 paper.
Using a tar ball from documentfoundation.org for a release prior to 7.5.0.0, how would the downgrade be accomplished system wide? The tar ball of version 7.4.7.2, the last prior to the bug, consists of 42 .deb files.
Best Answer
The basic theory works like this:
LibreOffice
package is on top. It depends on a layer of other packages. Chart those layers.dpkg
to install the bottom layer of dependencies, then intermediate layers, and finally the top layer. A shortcut is to usedpkg
to install ALL packages in a directory (dpkg -i *
) and let dpkg figure out the order, but that method has risks.Reading your output is critical.
You may encounter dependency errors that you must solve.