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Jessie-backports and LibreOffice not working

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rousou
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Jessie-backports and LibreOffice not working

#1 Post by rousou »

Hi all!
I'm using debian Jessie stable 64bit and i'm having some trouble with the default installed LibreOffice 4.3 so i decided to upgrade it to the versione 5.2 that is said to be supported trough the backports.
But... it seems the upgrade doesn't exist.

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root@i7:/home/rousou# apt-get install -t jessie-backports libreoffice
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze       
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
libreoffice è già alla versione più recente.
0 aggiornati, 0 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
Any idea?

Thanks!

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Re: Jessie-backports and LibreOffice not working

#2 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Please post the output of:

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LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy
Also, have you seen https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/?
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Re: Jessie-backports and LibreOffice not working

#3 Post by rousou »

Found the problem, sorry. The backports repo have been wiped out from the sources.list.

Is it possible that some update refreshes the source.list file? Same happened for contrib and non-free :?:

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Re: Jessie-backports and LibreOffice not working

#4 Post by stevepusser »

rousou wrote:Found the problem, sorry. The backports repo have been wiped out from the sources.list.

Is it possible that some update refreshes the source.list file? Same happened for contrib and non-free :?:
Anything is possible, but if a package asks to change a pre-existing system configuration file like that one, the update system halts and informs you of that, and gives you the choice to accept the change, view the changes, or to stick with what you have. We've fiddled with the software source files on MX Linux several times, and so are familiar with what'll happen--no one snuck any changes past you.
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