Installing LibreOffice manually on Ubuntu 12.04 works great following the advice in this answer:
https://askubuntu.com/a/182602/103893
It basically is a matter of downloading the most recent release from the LibreOffice site and running sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core
and sudo dpkg -i *.deb
.
Doing the above I installed LibreOffice 3.6.3 and it works great.
But what is the best way to uninstall this new version of LibreOffice (for when the next release is coming along)?
Trying sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core
will not do anything, and sudo apt-get remove libreoffice3.6
does not seem to remove all packages installed with dpkg…?
Best Answer
I just went through the same procedure as you and I did so by following the LO FAQ post on uninstalling previous version of community supplied packages.
The steps outlined in the FAQ require Synaptic Package Manager. You can install it with:
From the FAQ: