Friday, April 5, 2013

How to Install / upgrade Libre Office in UBUNTU

LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. It is descended from OpenOffice.org, from which it was forked in 2010. The LibreOffice suite includes a word processor, spreadsheet, graphics editor, slideshow creator, database and math formula writer.
It is designed to be compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, though some Microsoft Office layout features and formatting attributes are handled differently or are unsupported. LibreOffice is available for a variety of computing platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or newer, and Linux-based systems running Linux kernel version 2.6.18 or newer. It is the default office suite of popular Linux distributions like Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu. Ports for FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are being maintained by contributors to those projects, respectively.

First, you can download LibreOffice in here. Download the main installer and built-in help.
Main Installer
wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.0.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
built-in help
wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.0.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz
tar zxvf LibreOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
cd LibreOffice_4.0.0.x_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
tar zxvf LibreOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz
cd LibreOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
For users of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10 certainly will not get the update package LibreOffice to version 4 of the official Ubuntu repositories. That means the two versions of Ubuntu users should be satisfied with the LibreOffice 3.xx. However, it does not mean that users of Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 can not install itself LibreOffice 4, they can still use version 4 independently by downloading from the official website or use LibreOffice LibreOffice PPA repository team.
Open the terminal.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
Update the repository.
sudo apt-get update
Close the terminal window. To upgrade safely and only 4 LibreOffice packages you want to update some sort please use Synaptic package manager or Ubuntu software center. This is to avoid another unwanted package helped updated when upgrading LibreOffice 4.
Run Synaptic, select the “Installed (upgradable)” and mark all packages to be updated LibreOffice. After all who wants to be updated complete package marked, press “Apply” to start the upgrade process.

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