On 13 Mar 2025 at 22:58, Dave Close wrote:
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: dnf downgrade dependencies From: Dave Close dave@compata.com Date sent: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:58:42 -0700 Send reply to: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
On 3/13/25 10:20 PM, Dave Close wrote:
I've decided I'm unhappy with one of the changes made by the most recent version of LibreOffice, 24.8, and I want to try going back to the previous version, 24.2, which is part of the FC40 repository. But I'm astounded by the result of the command below. (Without allowerasing the command won't do anything.)
Samuel Sieb wrote:
libreoffice has many dependencies and if you downgrade those to what that version needs, then you have to also downgrade all the packages that depend on those dependencies.
Well then, I suppose I could download the source package and try to build it on FC41...
Sent a longer reply to Dave Close.
But you can have both the Fedora version of Libre Office and a Libre Office version at the same time. They can be installed at same time.
On my Fedora 41 machine I have the two versions running. So, I'm doing the reverse of what he wants. I have the default 24.8.5.2 version of Fedora 41 and have the newer 25.2.1.2 version. Installing the LibreOffice version puts the files in /opt directory, while the Fedora version is in its location. Menu shows both. Just showing writer packages as example. libreoffice25.2-writer-25.2.1.2-2.x86_64 libreoffice-writer-24.8.5.2-1.fc41.x86_64
# which libreoffice /usr/bin/libreoffice # which libreoffice25.2 /usr/bin/libreoffice25.2 # ls -l /usr/bin/libreoffice25.2 /usr/bin/libreoffice25.2 -> /opt/libreoffice25.2/program/soffice
So, except for doubling the space to have two versions for testing.
Doesn't show any issues that I've seen? But limited testing.
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