Install Specific LibreOffice Version on Ubuntu 22.04

Versions of LibreOffice

LibreOffice tends to focus on a GUI experience, while also providing package manager installations for a variety of operating systems such as Ubuntu. The downloadable files include a .deb file which can be used for installation. However, using the .deb means manual installations. Ubuntu suggests using APT only.

For Ubuntu 22.04, the official installation is 7.0.x (or thereabouts), which is end of life.

Click here for a list of LibreOffice releases and their release plan.

Installing LibreOffice from the command line/bash using PPA

Install the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

and make sure to install

sudo apt install -y apt-utils

and run update

sudo apt update

Search the PPA for versions. Instead of apt-cache search, use madison:

sudo apt-cache madison libreoffice

libreoffice | 4:24.8.2-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~lo1 | https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
libreoffice | 4:24.2.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 | http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64 Packages
libreoffice | 4:24.2.5-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 | http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/universe amd64 Packages
libreoffice | 4:24.2.2-0ubuntu1 | http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages

Click here if you want more information about the Ubuntu packaging. The most relevant is this one: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa.

Install the version you want (I chose the top one in this example list):

sudo apt install libreoffice=4:24.8.1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo1

Remove and Purge the PPA

add-apt-repository -r ppa:libreoffice/ppa

ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa

You may need to install ppa-purge:

apt install -y ppa-purge