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The latest installation instructions for LibreOffice
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, LibreOffice is an open-source popular Office Suite application, running on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. The latest version available is LibreOffice 4.1.1, which has been recently released. For a full list of features and improvements, see the official changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install LibreOffice 4.1.1 on Fedora, Mageia, OpenSUSE, CentOS and other RHEL derivates.
There is no repository available for LibreOffice 4.1.1, so we have to download the libreoffice archives from the official site and install the containing packages. Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture, in order to get a successful installation:
How to install LibreOffice 4.1.1 on 32 bit Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia and CentOS:
$ wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.1.1/rpm/x86/LibreOffice_4.1.1_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.1.1_Linux_x86_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm
How to install LibreOffice 4.1.1 on 64 bit Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia and CentOS:
$ wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.1.1/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.1.1_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.1.1_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm