How can I downgrade LibreOffice to the previous version?

rothom

Background: My wife works a lot with LibreOffice and she often receives MS Office files from customers which she then has to edit.

For example, she is currently working on a pptx file that takes several minutes to load. It is a small file of 5 MB. However, this effect of the long loading time is only after the last update.

With the previous version of LibreOffice, loading the file only took seconds.

Is it possible to downgrade LibreOffice to the previous version?

Cheers!

algent

Hello @rothom. You can try to use LibreOffice packages as AppImage, there are several versions here:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/appimage/

I am curious to know if you have the same issue with the AppImage at current version.

rothom

algent

I'll give it a try tonight, thanks for the tip.

Cheers!

rothom

Hello algent,

I opened the file with the latest version (7.6.3) of LO (AppImage), the loading process was terrible, took minutes again.

Then I took the AppImage of the stable version (7.5.8) and lo and behold: the loading process only took seconds.

Cheers!

User_007

You can use the rollback function:
https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/package-management/history-and-rollback

Open terminal and type:
eopkg history
(I noticed the schrollbar isn't working, so use the keyboard 😉)
Command to rollback:
sudo eopkg history -t number
(If you want to cancel use strg+c)

Solus package manager has a "exclude" function, so you could update the system without updating libreoffice via the terminal.
eopkg search libreoffice
outputs:
libreoffice-dbginfo - Debug symbols for libreoffice libreoffice-draw-help - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-math - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-base-help - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-writer - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-base - LibreOffice Office Suite libnumbertext-dbginfo - Debug symbols for libnumbertext libreoffice-common - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-calc-help - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-all - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-calc - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-impress-help - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-writer-help - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-common-help - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-math-help - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-common-dictionaries - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-impress - LibreOffice Office Suite libnumbertext - Number to number name and money text conversion libraries libnumbertext-devel - Development files for libnumbertext libreoffice-common-kde-integration - LibreOffice Office Suite libreoffice-voikko - A multi language spellchecker, grammar checker and hyphenator extension for LibreOffice. It uses libvoikko for all linguistic operations. libreoffice-draw - LibreOffice Office Suite

But I dunno what packages need to exclude.
Command to update via terminal:
sudo eopkg up

With "exclude"
sudo eopkg up -x libreoffice-impress -x libreoffice-impress-help

I doubt this will work and there is also the possibility that other packages cause the slow start...

rothom

User_007

I'll try that tonight too, also thank you for the tip.

Cheers!

rothom

User_007

If I use this method, will the entire update be undone? And what will happen with the next regular update?

Cheers!

algent

rothom Thanks for testing this. This means that there is nothing wrong in Solus packaging.
It is better if you raise an issue in LibreOffice Bugzilla, so they fix the issue for the upcoming release.

algent

rothom Can you do another test please?
Libreoffice 7.6.4.1 was just released and there is an AppImage for it.

rothom

algent

Don't work, extremely long loading time of the file.