Ubuntu – How to downgrade from LibreOffice 4.0 to 3.6

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How to "properly" downgrade LibreOffice versions deals with a downgrade from 3.5 to 3.4.*. Is there any way to nicely downgrade LibreOffice 4.0 to 3.6? The latter is not in the package lists.

Background: It is because of this bug which is about the incompatibility of an extension which should really be core functionality. Essentially, 4.0 just does not deal with templates in an intelligent way. You cannot fully apply a template to an existing document.

Update: based on apt-cache showpkg libreoffice (found on How to Downgrade a Package via apt-get?) one can confirm that only LibreOffice 4.* is in the repositories.

Best Answer

For me this worked:

sudo apt-get install synaptic
sudo apt-get purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then remove ppa for LibreOffice4 Add ppa for LibreOffice3.6

sudo apt-get update

via synaptic reinstall packages which make problems for me it was libexttextcat

Install LibreOffice via synaptic.

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