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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

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

Cheers!

    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...

      User_007

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

      Cheers!

        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

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

            Cheers!

              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.

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

                    algent

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