LibreOffice
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, upgrades when new versions come out, integration within Ubuntu, and is unsupported for Ubuntu bug filing purposes. Using official packages also ensures you get the best assistance from the community as this is the recommended method to install and use LibreOffice in Ubuntu.
Please note OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice don’t coexist. Install LibreOffice following these instructions will effectively remove OpenOffice.org.
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 11.10, 12.04 LTS
LibreOffice is now a part of Ubuntu. Since LibreOffice is already part of the standard packages, just search for “libreoffice” in your favorite package manager. To find out which LibreOffice version ships with a specific Ubuntu version, check this Ubuntu Packages Search custom search.
Note: if you want to get the very latest version of LibreOffice, you may do so by following instructions below for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
As an example, if you're using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, your LibreOffice version is 3.5.4. Only security updates will be applied to it, while feature updates for greater versions will be available by using the PPA.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 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 became part of Ubuntu in April 2011, and this PPA is the source for such official stable versions. Make sure you test this appropriately if you intend to use this in a production environment under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Follow these steps to make LibreOffice available for installation in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
Open a terminal window under Applications > Accessories > Terminal
- Use these commands to add the repository:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-0
- 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
Language localization, spell checking, dictionary, hyphenation, thesaurus, and help
To install proper support for language writing aids you may install the corresponding packages libreoffice-l10n-*, myspell-*, hyphen-*, mythes-*, libreoffice-help-* 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 example, the corresponding French packages are:
- libreoffice-l10n-fr
- myspell-fr
- hyphen-fr
- mythes-fr
- libreoffice-help-fr
Please be advised that not all languages have these corresponding packages. For more information on language support in LibreOffice please check here.
LibreOffice Packaging
More information on the LibreOffice packaging for Ubuntu is available at LibreOfficePackaging .
Building LibreOffice
More information on building LibreOffice as a release build or a developer build can be found at BuildingLibreOffice.
Debugging LibreOffice
More information on debugging LibreOffice as a release build or a developer build can be found at DebuggingLibreOffice.