Keeping libreoffice start command up to date

Question

Several pages provide the correct commands to start LO, such as:

libreoffice6.4 --writer

But whenever LO updates, that command must be changed. Is there a command which will catch up when LO updates?

The official packages use /usr/bin/libreoffice, not /usr/bin/libreofficeX.Y. — muru, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:23
On your system, what is the output of grep Exec= /usr/share/applications/libreoffice*.desktop? — DK Bose, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:40
The output is a series of lines of the form: /usr/share/applications/libreoffice6.4-math.desktop:Exec=libreoffice6.4 --math %U — Pansmanser, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:14
@muru, "libreoffice" on its own does not work on my system. Is it perhaps because I am using the fresh version or lo, not the stable version? If so, is there a way of telling the system to look for the latest version. — Pansmanser, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:21

Tilman · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-09 16:20:08Z

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Ignore those several pages. The correct command to start LibreOffice Writer is lowriter.

answered Apr 9, 2020 at 16:20

Tilman

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You may ignore them if you wish. lowriter does not work on my system, nor any variation of it I have tried. I have to specify the version number.
– Pansmanser
Apr 10, 2020 at 11:17
How did you install LibreOffice? It seems you are not using the regular Ubuntu package.
– Tilman
Apr 10, 2020 at 16:13
I downloaded the latest debs on libreoffice.org and installed them manually.
– Pansmanser
Apr 12, 2020 at 9:30
I see. Well in that case this is probably the wrong forum to ask since it is explicitly about the officially supported Ubuntu distribution. You'll have to ask in a LibreOffice forum how those packages are built and what mechanisms if any they propose in order to provide a stable command line.
– Tilman
Apr 12, 2020 at 10:55

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