That more and more Gnu / Linux programs adopt the Flatpak format is not news, but that these reach external repositories, it is. Making it easier and easier to obtain the latest version of a program without having to wait for the developers of the distribution.
The latest program to do this has been LibreOffice. The The world's most famous office suite Gnu / Linux is now in Flatpak format and recently has distributed it in a popular repository of packages in Flatpak format, Flatub.
The arrival of LibreOffice to Flathub will allow us to have the latest version of this suite without problems with the distribution
This repository will allow us to install the latest version of LibreOffice in our distribution and ensure that we always get the latest from the office suite without having to have problems with other packages or dependencies. Unfortunately, this package and repository are only compatible with distributions that have flatpak support. All the distributions whose development is in progress have support for this type of format; older distributions or older versions of these generally do not support it. In any case, in this article We count on having support for Flatpak.
Once we have this, we go to the distribution terminal and type the following:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
This will add the Flathub repository in the Flatpak package manager, such that every time we install a program in this format, upon distribution it will search for and install programs from this repository. Since Flathub has LibreOffice, all you have to do is install Libreoffice with the Flatpak tool.
Surely many of you have chosen the snap format and others continue with the flatpak format, however, in any case it seems that universal package format is the future for many users and many distributions Do not you think?