Hello Carl, On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 13:28 +1100, Carl Turney wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to upgrade my LibreOffice from 4.0.2.2 to 4.2.2, on my Ubuntu > 10.4 Desktop. > > (Yes, yes, I'll upgrade to Ubuntu 14.4 as soon as I get more powerful > hardware and it comes out stable in April.)
Been there, done that, not exactly, but similar. This is an even older Ubuntu (8.04 Hardy Heron) when I did some major upgrading. It was necessary to hand edit the repositories as they do archive the older ones, but not where they were. I managed to update what I had, then dist-upgrade, then repeat. I did about four or five releases that way in a short time period, with significant amounts by dial up access, repeated ten hour connection sessions. This IBM A20m Thinkpad still works, but effectively EOL for software upgrades and a few other issues. > I followed the instructions here, which seems the most authoritative (it > said nothing about upgrading, just installing): > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice#Installing_a_newer_version_of_LibreOffice_than_available_via_Ubuntu_repositories > > (I followed the steps in the above-cited section, as normal Synaptic > updates stopped a long time ago on my system.) > > But when I executed this command... > sudo apt-get update > ...I got (among others) this message: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-4-2/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > 404 Not Found The repository will be around, but at a different URI. They move the obsolete stuff to a different site. I do not have the details to hand at the moment, not certain whether I retained from my previously mentioned efforts. A lot of this is why I am migrating to Debian, but need to put together my next good desktop PC, but income is an issue. > So am I correct in assuming that I can't upgrade LibreOffice to 4.2.2 on > my Ubuntu Lucid? Not impossible, not necessarily all that difficult, but quite a trail to get there, and if the HW specs of the PC prevent a later release, then I would strongly suggest wait till newer PC. > Thanks very much, > > Carl Turney > Bayswater Regards, Mark Trickett _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
