Actually, I can thoroughly recommend the LibreOffice AppImages. These are "official", properly-built AppImages, endorsed and produced by the LibreOffice community themselves.
They work well with 'our Pup's' oddball method of running, being able to run from outside the 'save', thus not filling it up unnecessarily. They're also incredibly easy to share between distros, since in many cases they've been re-compiled, by the community themselves, to work with as old a run-time environment as possible. They still have all the up-to-date, secure features, just able to run on older distros if needed, because the requirements are fairly 'generic'......very much along the lines of how Google build Chrome, in order to make it available to the widest possible user-base.
(The Chromium Project may build to require cutting-edge versions of everything, but Google then take the code-base and re-compile it to use much older versions, while at the same time still remaining secure. Doesn't make much sense, does it?.......but that's what they've been doing for years, and it explains why their user-base is as large as it is).
Mike.
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