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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 4.1.4, which has been recently released. For a list of changes and enhancements, see the official release notes.
In this article I will show you how to install LibreOffice 4.1.4 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian and Kwheezy.
Because it is not available via any repository yet, we have to download the libreoffice archive from the official site, extract it and install the dpkg package. Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install LibreOffice 4.1.4 on 32 bit Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian and Kwheezy systems:
$ wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.1.4/deb/x86/LibreOffice_4.1.4_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.1.4_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.1.4.2_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
How to install LibreOffice 4.1.4 on 64 bit Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian and Kwheezy systems:
wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.1.4/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.1.4_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.1.4_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.1.4_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
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