How To Install LibreOffice 4.1 Fedora, Mageia, OpenSUSE And CentOS

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Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, LibreOffice 4.1 stable has been released a while ago, with some bugfixes brought to the previous release candidate versions. To get a list of the features and improvements, see the release notes.

In this article I will show you how to install LibreOffice 4.1 stable on Fedora 19, Fedora 18, Fedora 17, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 12.3, OpenSUSE 12.2, Mageia 4, Mageia 3 and CentOS 6.

LibreOffice 4.1. is not available via repository yet, but it can be easily installed, by download the package archive, extracting it and installing the rpm files. Follow the instructions for your architecture, for a successful installation:

How to install LibreOffice 4.1 on 32 bit RPM based systems:

Download the archive:

$ wget -c http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.1.0/rpm/x86/LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz

Extract the archive:

$ tar -xvf LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz

Install the needed packages:

$ cd LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm

How to install LibreOffice 4.1 on 64 bit RPM based systems:

Download the archive:

$ wget -c http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.1.0/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz

Extract the archive:

$ tar -xvf LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz

Install the needed packages:

$ cd LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm

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