Revert to older version of LibreOffice or upgrade to later version

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Hello,
I am using Fedora Workstation 41 with LibreOffice 24.8.6.2.

This LO version has a bug where if one does Save as, the file is not saved to the original folder that the file was opened in, but saves to a folder that was previously selected and is the incorrect folder. So one has to manually select the destination folder each time, but of course sometimes I forget and the file is saved to the wrong location.

So I would like to revent to an older version of LO, or upgrade to a later version.

Is either of these possible? If so, how?

I do realize that Fedora 42 is available now, but for now, I would prefer to stick with 41.

Thanks ahead of time for any help…

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You can downgrade LibreOffice from 24.8.6.2-1.fc41 (available in the updates repo), to 24.8.2.1-2.fc41 (available in the fedora repo) and lock that version to prevent upgrades[1]:

$ sudo dnf downgrade libreoffice
$ sudo dnf versionlock add libreoffice

Alternatively, you can install LibreOffice as Flatpak. In the flathub remote, version 25.2.3.2 is available.

  1. The version lock can be removed with sudo dnf versionlock remove libreoffice. ↩︎

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Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

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Hello, when I do:

I get:

Failed to resolve the transaction:
Packages for argument ‘libreoffice’ available, but not installed.

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It seems I only had libreoffice-calc, writer and impress installed, so I removed those.

Then I did:

sudo dnf list libreoffice --showduplicates

to see what is available and got:

libreoffice.x86_64 1:24.8.2.1-2.fc41 fedora
libreoffice.x86_64 1:24.8.6.2-1.fc41 updates

  • as you had already pointed out :slight_smile:

Then:

sudo dnf install libreoffice-1:24.8.2.1-2.fc41

Then:

sudo dnf versionlock add libreoffice

and this worked :slight_smile:

And as you pointed out, just for my notes, I can use:

sudo dnf versionlock remove libreoffice

when needed in future.

Thanks again for your help and pointing me in the right direction.

Update - I was a litle concerned that even libreoffice.x86_64 1:24.8.2.1-2.fc41 still has this bug but luckily it does not :slight_smile: so I thought I would just state this for anyone else having this issue.

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Glad to hear you got it sorted out.