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When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows?

posted by martyb on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the differences-are-good dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

I find the Libre Office Update tool for the Windows version of the Suite is not really worth having at all. A notice will pop up indicating that an update is available, but the tool just goes to the Libre Office web site for you to download the full package manually. Compare that to the Pale Moon web browser, which will download small update packages when a new version becomes available. You do not need to remove the old version of Pale Moon to install the update, because its update tool takes care of it automatically.

Libre Office is a high profile Open Source application, I am surprised that their version for the Windows operating system does not have an easy upgrade path. I think that working on the Upgrade tool would be a worthy upgrade to the Suite, and the current version is holding back adoption of it.

Disclaimer: I am not a programmer, so I can't write an upgrade tool on my own. Also my employers owns any software I create (employment agreement).

[Ed note: I was debating whether or not to run this story. Sounds like it could lead to a good discussion. If LibreOffice can download deltas on other platforms, why not on Windows? What practical reason could there be?]

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  • (Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:34PM

    by FakeBeldin (3360) on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:34PM (#425328) Journal

    Ubuntu and some other Linux flavors have it figured out.

    Nope, they haven't.

    Sure, they manage to get updates to some version, but they're not backporting major version updates, just the bugs.
    So if you're on an LTS and want to run current Libreoffice, then 4/5ths of the supported time of the LTS you're doing it the Windows way: remove by hand, download, install from deb files.

    <FAQ>
    "Why don't you just upgrade the OS?"
    Because I use my computer to do things, not to update its OS. Non-LTS ubuntu's are only briefly supported, forcing you to upgrade about every 7 months. Not worth the hassle nor my time, so I'm sticking to LTS's.

    "Why don't you just suck it up and take the supported version?"
    Because I live in the real world, and cross-compatibility of office suites is continuously improved in LO. I want that.
    </FAQ>

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