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The latest installation instructions for LibreOffice
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, LibreOffice is a popular open source Office suite application created by The Document Foundation. LibreOffice 4.1.1 RC2 has been recently released. For a full list of fixes and improvements, see the official changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install LibreOffice 4.1.1 RC2 on Fedora 19, Fedora 18, Fedora 17, Mageia 4, Mageia 3, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 12.3, OpenSUSE 12.2 and CentOS 6.
Because it is not available via any repository yet, we have to download the LibreOffice 4.1.1 RC2 archive from the official site, extract it and install the rpm packages with rpm -i. Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture type and everything will run smoothly.
How to install LibreOffice 4.1.1 on 32 bit Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia and CentOS systems:
$ wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/4.1.1/rpm/x86/LibreOffice_4.1.1.1_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.1.1.1_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.1.1.1_Linux_x86_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm
How to install LibreOffice 4.1.1 on 64 bit Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia and CentOS systems:
$ wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/4.1.1/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.1.1.1_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.1.1.1_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.1.1.1_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm
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