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LibreOffice Gets A PPA – Makes Installation In Ubuntu Super Easy!

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LibreOffice is a fork of the popular OpenOffice. The fork was done due to differences between the OpenOffice community and Oracle.

Development for LibreOffice has been going on for a while now and it is currently in its second release candidate. LibreOffice and OpenOffice cannot be installed side-by-side. So, to install LibreOffice, users had to manually remove OpenOffice, which is quite bothersome, before installing the LibreOffice .deb file.

However, to make installation in Ubuntu and its derivatives easier, the LibreOffice developers has made a PPA. In addition to making it easier to install, installing from the PPA will ensure that users get the updates regularly.

Before you install LibreOffice through this PPA, remember that it will remove OpenOffice automatically. Also keep in mind that this is not the final release yet.

So, to install LibreOffice, open the Terminal and execute the following commands:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice

If you start LibreOffice now, you will notice that it looks very ugly. To make it looks consistent with the other applications, execute the command below:

For GNOME

$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

For KDE

$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde

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  1. Tayroni Alves on January 28th, 2011 at 9:42 am #

    Error on installing libreoffice-kde:

    sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Package libreoffice-kde is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source
    E: Package libreoffice-kde has no installation candidate