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I'm on a Windows system and using the Windows build of LibreOffice Still. In Windows LibreOffice there are "Online Update Options" as shown here:

I have an issue with this in that the update notifications check for updates to LibreOffice Fresh — which is no good to me when I like to use Still. I went to LibreOffice Bugzilla to see if there was anything there and found this report: Bug 153101 - Add option to disable Update Notifications for Technological Enthusiast ("fresh") Releases.

Comment 2 in that report seems to Be implying that Online Update Options for Linux builds of LibreOffice differ from what is on offer to Windows users. So my question is, is there a difference between Windows/Linux builds for this feature of LibreOffice? If it is different a screenshot of the Linux build options for this would be great.

I don't make any serious use of LibreOffice, but for your information here is the same screen from installed LibreOffice 7.2.2.2

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Thanks very much Rory, appreciated.

They are very different, dependent on the flavor of Linux and how it's installed. For instance, in Ubuntu 22 LibreOffice is now maintained by Snap, and updates are handled automatically. The Online update isn't even an option on that dialog box. Which is bad - you will get the fresh version no matter what.

Will have to check later today on my xubuntu machine but I think I installed the deb version instead of using the snap, to have more control.

Maybe somebody should suggest to the people at Snap to host both the still and fresh flavors.

If they could agree on a single package format, that would be great also. There is at least flatpak, snap, appimage. They add custom directories in the home folder and/or the root folder, that breaks the point of the /opt directory and my partition strategy.