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The latest installation instructions for LibreOffice
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, LibreOffice is the most popular open-source office suite, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. The latest version available is LibreOffice 4.3.1, which has been released a while ago, coming with over 100 bug-fixes only.
For information about this release, see the changelog and the official announcement.
In this article I will show you how to install LibreOffice 4.3.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, LXLE 14.04, Peppermint Five, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Linux Lite 2.0, Debian Jessie, Debian Wheezy, SparkyLinux, Kwheezy, Crunchbang and other Ubuntu/Debian derivative systems.
Because it is not available via any repository, we have to fix the dependency issues, download the archive containing the libreoffice packages from the official site, extract the archive and install the deb packages inside.
Follow the instructions for you system and architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install LibreOffice 4.3.1 on 32 bit Ubuntu, Debian and derivative systems:
First, we have to remove previous libreoffice versions:
$ sudo apt-get remove libreoffice
Download the LibreOffice archive, extract it and install the deb packages inside:
$ wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.3.1/deb/x86/LibreOffice_4.3.1_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.3.1_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.3.1.2_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
How to install LibreOffice 4.3.1 on 64 bit Ubuntu, Debian and derivative systems:
First, we have to remove previous libreoffice versions:
$ sudo apt-get remove libreoffice
Download the LibreOffice archive, extract it and install the deb packages inside:
$ wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.3.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.3.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.3.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.3.1.2_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
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