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LibreOffice installation on Ubuntu
If you’re using Ubuntu, don’t install LibreOffice manually from the “.deb” files available at libreoffice.org. Otherwise you will not get automatic updates and upgrades when new versions come out and you will be missing the integration to Ubuntu. Using official packages also ensures you get the best assistance from the community as this is the recommended method to install & use LibreOffice in Ubuntu.
Please note OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice don’t coexist. Install LibreOffice following these instructions will effectively remove OpenOffice.org.
The current status of LibreOffice packaging for Ubuntu can be followed by looking at or subscribing to Bug #651124.
If you find any issues when using LibreOffice with Ubuntu, please follow the bug reporting guidelines.
Making sure LibreOffice is available for your Ubuntu version
Ubuntu 11.04
Starting with Ubuntu 11.04, LibreOffice is part of Ubuntu. Since LibreOffice is already part of the standard packages, just search for “libreoffice” in your favorite package manager.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10
For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10, it is recommended that you use the LibreOffice Personal Package Archive (PPA) repository. A PPA is always considered a third-party application and unfit for production purposes (as far as official commercial support goes), however LibreOffice is becoming part of Ubuntu in April 2011, and this PPA is the source for such official version. Make sure you test this appropriately if you intend to use this in a production environment under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or 10.10.
Follow these steps to make LibreOffice available for installation in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or Ubuntu 10.10:
Open a terminal window under Applications > Accessories > Terminal
- Once the repository is added, we need to let the system know about the new packages available:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa 1
- Update the packages list:
sudo apt-get update
LibreOffice is now available for installation. Read below to either selectively or fully install LibreOffice.
Installing LibreOffice
Selective installation
To install only part of LibreOffice, you can install the appropriate meta-package:
- libreoffice-writer: Word processor
- libreoffice-calc: Spreadsheet
- libreoffice-impress: Presentation
- libreoffice-draw: Drawing
- libreoffice-base: Database
- libreoffice-math: Equation editor
- libreoffice-filter-mobiledev: Mobile Devices filters
libreoffice-filter-binfilter: legacy filters (e.g. StarOffice 5.2)
Full installation
To install all the LibreOffice core packages:
Install the LibreOffice meta-package with this command: sudo apt-get install libreoffice
- Complete the installation by including the Ubuntu (Gnome) desktop integration:
- If you’re using Ubuntu (Gnome) use this command:
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome
- If you’re using Kubuntu (KDE) use this command:
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde
- If you’re using Ubuntu (Gnome) use this command:
Installing other related packages, dictionaries, extensions, clipart, templates
Additional language modules, help files and extensions are also available if you search for libreoffice in your package manager. Example how to search:
apt-cache search libreoffice-help-en
Here are a few examples:
- libreoffice-help-*: help files
- libreoffice-l10n-*: localization files
libreoffice-pdfimport: LibreOffice extension for importing PDF documents
libreoffice-presentation-minimizer: LibreOffice extension for size-efficient presentations
libreoffice-presenter-console: LibreOffice Impress extension for a separate presenter's console
libreoffice-report-builder-bin: LibreOffice extension for building database reports -- libraries
- mozilla-libreoffice: office productivity suite -- Mozilla plugin
Spell checking, hyphenation and dictionaries
To install proper support for language writing aids you must install the corresponding package. The name will consist of language-support-writing- followed by your language ISO 639-1 code. A complete list of such language codes is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
For French, Spanish and Italian, for example, the corresponding packages are:
- language-support-writing-fr
- language-support-writing-es
- language-support-writing-it
Removing LibreOffice and restoring OpenOffice.org
Open the Synaptic Package Manager under System > Administration
Make sure your packages list is updated by clicking on Reload
Search for libreoffice
- Select all packages for complete removal - you can click on one package and use CTRL-A to select all packages
Click Apply and follow the prompts
Remove the LibreOffice PPA by unselecting it under Settings > Repositories > Other software in Synaptic package manager
Click Reload to update the current packages list
Search for openoffice.org
- Mark for installation any core openoffice.org applications and additional packages you want, then click apply
Several online guides suggest using Mark for complete removal. This is not necessary as LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org configuration files are stored in different directories (~/.libreoffice and ~.openoffice.org respectively).
Some may find the add-apt-repository script is not installed, run sudo apt-get install python-software-properties to install it. (1)
LibreOffice (last edited 2019-03-26 17:05:38 by fitojb)