Saturday, March 12, 2022

Upgrading Libreoffice with Homebrew

Update 2023-06-06 brew now asks for your password so it can install everything directly. Much better!!

The text below is no longer applicable and only kepts as reference.


Reminder to self: this is the procedure to upgrade Libreoffice with Homebrew:

  1. brew update
  2. brew upgrade
  3. open -a /Applications/LibreOffice.app
  4. Quit the application
  5. brew reinstall libreoffice-language-pack, enter your password
  6. open "/usr/local/Caskroom/libreoffice-language-pack/$(cd /usr/local/Caskroom/libreoffice-language-pack; ls -1 | sort -rV | head)/LibreOffice Language Pack.app", click 'Ok', click 'Ok'

Please anyone, please make this simpler...

Update 2021-03-24

Here is a script to remove most of the manual toil:

#!/bin/bash echo "Initiating Libre Office upgrade" brew update brew upgrade libreoffice open -g -a /Applications/LibreOffice.app echo "Wait until the application completed startup (it is started in the background)" read -p "Press enter to quit LibreOffice" osascript -e 'quit app "LibreOffice"' APP=$(brew reinstall libreoffice-language-pack | tee /dev/tty | grep "LibreOffice Language Pack.app" | xargs) open -a "$APP" echo "The language pack installer has been opened."

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