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don.joey
Asked: 2013-05-24 07:03:11 +0800 CST

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.

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3 Answers

  1. 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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  2. There is a way to downgrade but not as "nicely" as I would like.

    1. Install Synaptic sudo apt-get install synaptic
    2. Uninstall libreoffice sudo apt-get purge libreoffice
    3. Add the Libreoffice 3.6 ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-3-6
    4. Refresh the repositories list sudo apt-get update
    5. Install LO 3.6 sudo apt-get install libreoffice=1:3.6.6-0ubuntu1~precise1~ppa1 . I never done this but there is information on how to install specific version here.
    6. Open Synaptic, search for Libreoffice, select the package and from the package menu select Lock version.

    Hope this helps.

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  3. Had this problem of downgrade too (from 4.1 to 4.0.4 ). Found this solution in a libroffice page & it's working fine!

    If you have no menus on a Debian/Ubuntu-based system or trouble with the install, you likely didn’t uninstall the distro version of LibreOffice completely. You will need to make sure all the binary packages listed here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice are uninstalled. On Ubuntu releases, executing: 

    sudo apt-get purge libreoffice*  
sudo apt-get purge openoffice.org-dtd-officedocument1.0 python-uno python3-uno uno-libs3 ure

    Source: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1#Most_Annoying_Bugs

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