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The latest installation instructions for LibreOffice
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 1 has been released a while ago. Among others, it comes with some fixes for the subscript text, improved RTF and DOCX export and import and the equations are now properly displayed in the status bar. For more information, see the changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 1 on Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, ROSA Desktop and OpenMandriva.
Because LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 1 is not available via any repository, we have to download the archive from the official site and install the rpm packages with rpm. Follow the instructions for your architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 1 on 32 bit Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, ROSA Desktop and OpenMandriva systems:
$ wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/4.2.0/rpm/x86/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm
How to install LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 1 on 62 bit Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, ROSA Desktop and OpenMandriva systems:
$ wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/4.2.0/rpm/x86_64/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm
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