[–] ReverendJ1 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I wonder if Synaptic automagically fixes the pinning, and that's what's going on here.
[–] beetusvoater ago (edited ago)
No, I was mistaken. I only had the problem of not being able to add a new repo, which is really strange behaviour.
Anyway, you were right with your pinning hypothesis:
cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/*
Package: *
Pin: origin build.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-gwendal-lebihan-dev-cinnamon-nightly
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: origin download.virtualbox.org
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 500
[–] ReverendJ1 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Weird. I've never ran into an issue adding a PPA. Some repos hosted elsewhere, yeah, but never a PPA from Launchpad.
Pretty interesting about the apt-pinning that Mint does, but like I said, it makes sense since it's using a base distro. I've just never seen it anywhere where it needed to be treated any differently than a regular Ubuntu box as far as adding repos goes though.
[–] ninjai 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I see the new packages but I don't know how to install them. I see 4.4 and 5.0 packages.
[–] beetusvoater 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
If all else fails, you can just specify the version you want (didn't try it, but you do it by appending a "=" and the Version you want to have.).
sudo apt-get install libreoffice=1:5.0.0~rc5-0ubuntu1~trusty1
Your problem seems to be related to pinning... I didn't look deeper into it, but you might want to if you wan to have a more permanent solution.
EDIT: checked the command and corrected it.