With all the talk of OpenOffice being forked by The Document Foundation into LibreOffice the past couple of days, The Document Foundation has released a beta version of LibreOffice that can be installed on Ubuntu.
Please note that LibreOffice is still a beta version and not meant for production purposes.
If LibreOffice is not for you, you can remove it by running this command in the terminal:
Please note that LibreOffice is still a beta version and not meant for production purposes.
If you want to remove OpenOffice before installing LibreOffice, you can do so by running following command:
sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*
Follow the instructions to install LibreOffice on Ubuntu:
- Download appropriate version from here
- Extract the file to ~/Desktop
- Rename the file as libreoffice
- Enter the following command into terminal and wait for the process to finish.
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/libreoffice/DEBS/*.deb
- Run the following command to finish the installation:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/libreoffice/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.3-debian-menus_3.3-9526_all.deb
That’s it. You can now access LibreOffice from Applications > Office
If LibreOffice is not for you, you can remove it by running this command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-debian-menus libreoffice-ure
