Hi guys
What’s the best and serious way to update my LibreOffice in Ubuntu MATE 14.4.1 64Bit to the new LibreOffice 4.4.x? Or is it better to wait for the official update via ubuntu software update?
Thanks and best regards
Beda 
I don’t know if the Ubuntu repo will actually update but there is a ppa for 4.4.X
https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/libreoffice-4-4
This specific ppa will limit updates to those of the 4.4 branch.
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Thanks:
Do this presuppose, that I remove first LibreOffice comlete or can I simply add the ppa to the source list and sudo update + dist-upgrade?
I ask, because remove LO seems to be delicate, since I have to work with it at the moment.
You can just add the ppa and run an update. It will take care of itself. I just ran it on two different installs, no problems.
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Ok, I will try it in the next days. Thank you! 
Don’t try to remove the existing LO. It is integrated into the Mate desktop environment and so if you try to uninstall it, it will take half of Mate down with it.
I supposed that, thank you for warning! Because that I enquired! I use and need LO in the moment to write papers for study and I can not risk some experiments! But it seems, that the way over ppa don’t cause problems…I expect some benefits of an update in various points of LO.
Thanks! It has been working and now I enjoy the new LO. 
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Brilliant news. glad to hear it.
Problem:
Actually I’m very happy with LO 4.4.0.3 and there are a lot of useful improvements. But there is big bug as well:
If I want to print odt pages with my wireless canon printer, the LO-Writer is freezing and I have to shut down the prozess in the MATE System Monitor. After a reboot the problem remained as before. For Bugreport I’m reliant for an instructions.
Any suggestions?
Canon printers are the bane of my life! I use a Canon LBP2900i laser printer and it has not worked properly on any Debian based distro since Ubuntu 12.04LTS. I now do all of my work on linux, but then startup an XP VM with Libreoffice etc installed in it and then print to my Canon printer from there.
In other words, I am suggesting that, perhaps, the problem may lie with your printer’s incompatability with Linux and not with Libreoffice per se. Having said that, if the printer was working before you upgraded Libreoffice, then Libreoffice must obviously be somehow implicated in the bug.
I’m afraid my techical expertise does not extend sufficiently to be able to help you more than the suggestion of a VM. But, I can say from experience, a VM will solve your printing problem. Once you’ve set it up, it is only a matter of a few second to fire up the VM, locate the relevant file in a shared folder and send it to the printer.
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Thanks for your promptly response! Yes, the problem came until the update of LibreOffice. In fact, I have to agree with printing Problems on Linux anyway. It’s mostly a lengthy thing to print a page, but it works so far so good. For the actually problem, I can bypass the printing in LO if I made a pdf an print it from ocular or other programm. That’s faster than start the VirtualBox (I’m running a Win 8.1) Apart, of Linux, I like Canon, especially for fotoprint are canon inkprinters recommendable from my side.
Until know, the benefits of update LO outweigh the printing-bug!
Having lost a day of my life getting my uncle’s Canon Printer/Scanner working on Linux Mint 17, I can’t say I’m overly enamoured towards them. Yes I got there in the end, after compiling the Ubuntu 12.04 32bit driver from source (plus an s-tonne of weird 32bit dependencies) but it was a monumental pain my rear end.
As a writer and desktop publisher, printing is close to my heart. Compare my experience with the Canon to my personal printer and the experience was like night and day. I have a Kyocera laser printer (complete with duplexing and sheet feeder) and they provide Linux PPDs that just work and work especially well with cups. They supply them for their entire range from personal printers to enterprise ready multifunction behemoths.
Even getting my high-end Epsom photo printer was easier than Canon once I found where Epsom hide their Linux drivers.
I’ve also heard good things about Brother printers and Linux support but can’t comment personally as I’ve never owned one.
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Export to PDF and try printing from Atril/Evince. That way you'll know if it's a LibreOffice issue or something awry in your printing stack.
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I see, I had luck so far with printin on Ubuntu - as well as in VMs. But it was never the same comfort as printing Win thats clear.
Yes, export to PDF and printig from Ocular and I guess from Atril as well is working fine. How than before update LibreOffice. So I assume, it’s a LO issue. Printing from Firefox is also working well by the way.
I think, if I have the time and nerves, I make a bug-report to LibreOffice an waiting for an update.
The print-bug has achieved bugzilla from LibreOffice by other users. I wrote an approval:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89160
So, I guess I have realistic hope for an update to fix it.
SOLVED! Problem fixed after update. 
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