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The latest installation instructions for LibreOffice
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, LibreOffice is one of the most popular, open-source, cross-platform office suite, developed by The Document Foundation.
The latest version available is LibreOffice 4.4.1, which has been released yesterday, coming with over 100 fixes.
In this article I will show you how to install LibreOffice 4.4.1 on Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva and their derivative systems.
In order to successfully install LibreOffice 4.4.1 on systems using RPM packages, we have to download the archive containing the packages, extract it and install the packages via command-line.
Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install LibreOffice 4.4.1 on 32 bit Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva and derivative systems:
$ wget download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.4.1/rpm/x86/LibreOffice_4.4.1_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.4.1_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.4.1.2_Linux_x86_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm
How to install LibreOffice 4.4.1 on 64 bit Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva and derivative systems:
$ wget download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.4.1/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.4.1_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.4.1_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOffice_4.4.1.2_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS
$ sudo rpm -i *.rpm
Optional, to remove LibreOffice 4.4.1 from Fedora and CentOS, do:
$ sudo yum remove libreoffice*
Optional, to remove LibreOffice 4.4.1 from OpenSUSE, do:
$ sudo zypper remove libreoffice*
Optional, to remove LibreOffice 4.4.1 from Mageia and OpenMandriva, do:
$ sudo urpme libreoffice*