LibreOffice Ubuntu PPA makes installation easy

By , Published January 2, 2011

Easily testing the latest builds of OpenOffice-fork LibreOffice in Ubuntu is now a cinch using the dedicated LibreOffice packaging PPA for Ubuntu users.

Bye bye .deb downloading

Up until now users have had to install via the oh-so-not-so-painful task of downloading a bunch of .debs files. This manual approach to installing updates has meant many users are running older versions, unaware of subsequent releases.

Adding a PPA ensures you are notified of pending updates whilst also offering the advantage of being able to upgrade easily.

Better still adding the LibreOffice PPA won’t affect OpenOffice (if installed) so feel free to take it for a test sans undue stress.

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The PPA provides packages for Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 users.

To add the PPA and install LibreOffice add ‘ppa:libreoffice/ppa’ to your software sources or run the command below in a new Terminal session: -

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libreoffice

Now to make it appear a tad nicer under your desktop environment of choice: -

Ubuntu users should run

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

Kubuntu users should run: -

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde

Thanks to F.Z.

Related posts:

  1. LibreOffice Release Candidate 1 available
  2. LibreOffice 3.3.0 Beta 2 released
  3. How to Install LibreOffice from a repository in Ubuntu
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  • http://twitter.com/ArtemMostovoy Artem

    good news

  • http://twitter.com/h0cage H0C age

    Looks like windows 95 on my box.

    • http://twitter.com/thecosmicfrog Aaron Hastings

      Same here. Like a Windows app running in Wine.

      • Anonymous

        sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

        This will install additional gtk and theme packages to make it fit in the gnome desktop nicely.

        Or do you mean that even that doesn’t work..?

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N7IMKAXW32Q5XVHDTVB4FN2QFM B

      sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk worked for me.

    • Anonymous

      Must be your box. A more important question – Does it work? Actually, her’s another one – Does it do what you want? After all that, how much did it cost you?

  • http://youtube.com/Ants45 Ants

    This has made my day. I have been waiting for this so I can remove Openoffice. TODAY IS THE DAY!

    • Aldo Mann

      I think yes, old packages are libreoffice3.3-* and the ppa’s are libreoffice-*.

      • http://youtube.com/Ants45 Ants

        ah ok, cheers.

  • Mohan

    So do all the extensions of openoffice work with the libreoffice?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Going out on a limb – probably not

      • http://twitter.com/drhodesmumby Daniel Rhodes-Mumby

        Since the core is more or less the same as Go-OO at the moment I suspect that they will. It would make sense.

      • Mohan

        I was afraid of that. Going to hold out then for now, as I need a few extensions working till I finish up my documentation for my master’s degree.

  • http://fapnews.com Screatch

    Finally.

  • Anonymous

    so will this remove OpenOffice?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      AFAIK – no. The earlier releases required OOo to be removed/replaced however since the late beta’s they can both exist side by side.

    • http://twitter.com/thecosmicfrog Aaron Hastings

      Yep:
      Removing openoffice.org-base …
      Removing openoffice.org-help-en-us …
      Removing openoffice.org-writer …
      …etc.

  • Anonymous

    Finally…

  • http://www.dustywilson.com/ Dusty Wilson

    Yup, removed OOo on my box as well when installing libreoffice. I’m fine with it, but it’s good to be accurate in reporting this.

  • http://twitter.com/thecosmicfrog Aaron Hastings

    Why does it look like a Windows app running in Wine?

    • Anonymous

      sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk

      • http://twitter.com/thecosmicfrog Aaron Hastings

        Thank you, sir :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FMDU34L53VKLGP26NONPUUH3YU john abbott

    great stuff

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Y2UVGBWZPY3GXHAAITM7O4J3NU Mateus Machado luna

    I’m waiting for the Br.Office version, it will be great!

    • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

      There won’t be a BrOffice version of LibreOffice as I understand it. The only reason BrOffice exists currently is that in Brazil the term OpenOffice apparently belongs to someone else preventing the OpenOffice.org project from shipping in Brazil under their regular name. With LibreOffice, the same version you get from LibreOffice will be the recommended version for Brazilian users.

      BrOffice is dead, long live LibreOffice.

  • Anonymous

    Great, an official PPA =D
    I’ve been using LibreOffice lately and believe it to be stable enough for maintime. So I don’t mind that it removes OpenOffice.org, however as mentioned by others “Say it in the post that it removes OpenOffice.org” I was installing it while I read the comments, but started installing after reading the whole post. Would’ve been great ;)

    Btw, it’s installed and looks like crap indeed =O What did they do since last time?

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t install properly, got an error. Busted dependencies, darn. Can you help me fix this?

    In the terminal:

    user@user-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    You might want to run `apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libreoffice-core: Depends: libreoffice-common (> 1:3.3.0~rc2) but it is not installed
    libreoffice-java-common: Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

    • Anonymous

      Okay, I got rid of it via Synaptic. How do you remove a PPA?

      • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

        the best way is to use ppa-purge, it will automate the whole process of removing a PPA and reverting the packages affected. ppa-purge is your friend.

    • Anonymous

      Go to software sources and disable the LibreOffice PPA.

      Then open a terminal and ‘sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -f’

      This will remove all the LibreOffice stuff.

      Then ‘sudo apt-get purge openoffice*’

      This will remove all of the OpenOffice stuff that the PPA forgot. (It removes aspell as well, so you will have to install it again after you reinstall LibreOffice.)

      Then reenable the LibreOffice PPA in software sources, ‘sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-gtk aspell’ to reinstall. Don’t forget aspell or the spell check won’t work.

      • Anonymous

        Ugh. I may have just messed everything up. See my comment below, “Okay, I got rid of it via Synaptic. How do you remove a PPA?” I marked the two broken packages for complete removal before posting that.

        After reading your comment, I went to Admin > Software sources and deleted the LibreOffice PPA. Tried to install OpenOffice via Software Center, stuff is still busted.

        “This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable. Futhermore there could be a conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time.”

        • Anonymous

          You will have to completely remove Open Office and then reinstall. Did you ‘sudo apt-get purge openoffice*’ ? The * is important. It removes all packages associated with Open Office.

          If you get a broken packages error with that command, try ‘sudo apt-get purge -f openoffice*’ This _should_ force it and disregard the broken package message.

          Then you should be able to reinstall Open Office or install LibreOffice after adding the PPA back.

          • Anonymous

            Thank you for helping me. Unfortunately, even after “sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openoffice-pkgs/ppa “, I was unable to install Openoffice.

            “user@user-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install openoffice
            Reading package lists… Done
            Building dependency tree
            Reading state information… Done
            E: Couldn’t find package openoffice”

            Additionally, I get another error whilst using “sudo apt-get update”:

            W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 10975893E549B1AC

          • http://twitter.com/sparksman Keiran Sparksman

            The GPG error’s no biggie, it’ll prolly just prompt you whenever you’re installing an unverified package (which can be a good thing if you’re playing around with Personal Package Archives [ppa's]).

            If you want openoffice back, I’d start with:

            sudo apt-get install openoffice.org

            If you do the above command in a terminal, let it do its thing, and then paste the same thing again but rather than hit [Enter] hit [Tab][Tab] with no spaces:
            sudo apt-get install openoffice.org[Tab key on your keyboard][Tab again]
            …it should come up with a prompt to display around 541 packages, all of which are optional components of openoffice.

            Command line completion is awesome.

          • Anonymous

            Thanks for the reply, Keiran.

            Here is the terminal output from what you gave me:
            http://pastebin.com/1Cp9V3Sj

            Should I install all of the listed missing dependencies one by one, then try again?

      • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

        pisses me off that i had to read half way down the comments to discover this solution. common OMGUbuntu can’t you test things properly before posting them!?

        • http://profiles.google.com/florin.jurcovici Florin Jurcovici

          Sorry, posted a stupidity, removed it.

  • http://twitter.com/fcastillo fcastillo

    Is there hyphenation and spelling support for libreoffice? I try installing a language pack but they specify that those things aren’t in there, they have specific package for each of them and I just can’t find them anywhere.

    • http://twitter.com/sparksman Keiran Sparksman

      libreoffice-hyphenation*

      For example, I use libreoffice-hyphenation-en-gb because I’m Australian. Americans would prolly use libreoffice-hyphenation. Just have a play. I’m on Lucid.

    • http://twitter.com/sparksman Keiran Sparksman

      libreoffice-hyphenation*

      For example, I use libreoffice-hyphenation-en-gb because I’m Australian. Americans would prolly use libreoffice-hyphenation. Just have a play. I’m on Lucid.

  • http://twitter.com/fcastillo fcastillo

    BTW, why is the PPA download speed so slow? Maybe OMG Ubuntu has so many followers that everybody is downloading at the same time making it extremely slow…

    • http://twitter.com/dislocatedbrick joshua reno

      2mb download here, something wrong with you bro

    • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

      Could be temporary pressure on the server, could be your internet connection, could be some flaw in Ubuntu (e.g. currently Natty performs a stunning 5kb/s on my 4Mbit line + wifi which is clearly a bug).

  • Seventh Reign

    It doesnt play nice with the K.A. Atolm theme, but it looks and works great otherwise.

    • Seventh Reign

      New update to Atolm makes it look much better.

  • http://broadbandblog.in Stereo

    Libre Office needs a massive revamp and a thought process away from it’s origins. I hate to admit it but MS Office is far better in many many ways by being more intuitive. True that MS has it’s flaws by putting on bloat but then it cannot be helped.

    Open Office (and now Libre) is clunky and has not seen incremental additions in “features”; I use Presentation a lot and it is nothing as compared to Apple Keynote. Feels pedestrian.

    • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

      I had hopes for “Project Renaissance”, but for the UI they went “We aren’t going to copy Office’s Ribbon, hey check out our mockup that totally looks like a ribbon!”
      and then the oracle buyout, which then brought tension, and then this.

      Maybe Oracle will keep OO.o free and improve on it. Look at Virtualbox, it’s 4.0 release actually works with Unity and the way they split the FOSS from closed is arguably better.

      Let’s hope that OO.o remains a viable program, because right now they programmers really didn’t need to improve since they didn’t have any real FOSS competition.

      • http://broadbandblog.in Stereo

        Couldn’t agree more.

        I think Office Applications are the Achilles heel of Ubuntu. By all accounts, the distro has matured, has great derivatives too (like Mint that I am using now) and the software ecosystem along with hardware compatibility has improved a great deal.

        But Office is staid. Clunky. I consider myself an open source evangelist (not to the kind that OMG Ubuntu guys are doing) but more “Stallmanish” types :) Still, I am stumped when Office applications are concerned. That is the main reason why it is becoming very difficult to shift users to OoO. Thats again why I have a strong vested interest in Libre Office because it is free from ‘Sun’s vision” to feed in code to it’s crap Star Office (now Oracle) and thats where the mandate now lies to jazz up and incorporate features.

        • Anonymous

          (not to the kind that OMG Ubuntu guys are doing)

          They are far from open-source evangelist they are apple and adobe fanboys.

          • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

            They are not open-source evangelists, but they are much closer to that than to “Apple and Adobe fanboys” if you consider the contents of the posts here. The percentage of posts about Apple or Adobe products here is very, very small. Most of the time the site shows apps that are 100% FOSS.

            If you consider things outside of OMG, it’s also hard to consider them such fanboys. Benjamin has an iPad but has not problems in admitting when he finds a flaw in it. Joey has an Android. Nixie is constantly making videos about FOSS applications. I think I’ve never seen Ashkat post something not related to FOSS. And David has always been a very vocal critic of proprietary software.

            *Some* editors here like *some* Apple and Adobe products. This is far from making them fanboys.

          • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

            I’d really love to see you back that with some evidence.

            For reference the only Apple device I ever bought is an iPod 5.5G, this today solely finds use confirming bug reports in Banshee. As for Adobe, I believe my thoughts on Flash specifically are well documented.

            I do however spend a lot of time advocating and supporting Open Source, I write here for free to let more people know of some of all the cool things going on in Open Source. Every editor here I know does this for the same reason, we are passionate about Open Source.

            It is nothing short of vileness to assert otherwise with arrogance without backing that up.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ICV4WEXTYE5SC2POQEQMWKZOEU Matt

            *** Opps bleeding-edge Ubuntu Natty Firefox 4 Beta 8 posted the wrong post lol ***

          • Akshat Jain

            “They are far from open-source evangelist they are apple and adobe fanboys.”

            No way, I don’t have any proprietary software on my computer except the games from Humble Indie Bundle.

          • Anonymous

            i meant mostly joey and benjamin.

          • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

            @akrocks:

            Even if you’re only talking about Joey and Benjamin, the proportion of the subjects in their posts in OMG and their twitter streams speak otherwise. I think you should provide a little more evidence before this kind of accusation.

          • Anonymous

            @akrocks: where are your arguments?

            (also i “liked” your comment in disqus accidentally, i just want to say i dont like it xd)

      • Anonymous

        “Maybe Oracle will keep OO.o free and improve on it.”

        No they wont they want to sell Oracle OpenOffice and would make make OpenOffice.Org even comparable to that.

    • Shnatsel
      • http://broadbandblog.in Stereo

        Thanks! I had read about it earlier but never got around to install it.

      • Anonymous

        I like Ease, but, unfortunately, it’s still waaay too basic for me to actually be able to use it for actual work.
        The software doesn’t even save to any of the common filetypes, like ODP, PPT, or PPTX.

    • Anonymous

      Compare memory usage between MS Office and OpenOffice or LibreOffice and then come again and talk about “bloat”… :-O

  • http://twitter.com/ez24geth8 ez24geth8

    It seemed to install fine but it wont start or open any files. Any ideas?

    • http://jdevelopthis.blogspot.com Jacky Alcine

      Give us an example or ask your question on AskUbuntu.

  • http://twitter.com/tethragon George Petrakis

    Powerpoint 2010 is absolutely stunning. The slide transition visual effects and the SmartArt are features that make Open office and Libre office look ancient compared to powerpoint 2010

    Just look. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnsGSwMlxy4
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGBANyDWeEk&feature=related

    • Anonymous

      Eh… I’m not impressed. When it comes to presentations less is more. people don’t want to watch a bunch of half-assed transitions and comic like graphics bouncing around the screen, they just want to get to the point of the presentation. Alas, thanks to Microsoft, most Window users just don’t know any better than to throw everything and the kitchen sink at their poor presentation viewers.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4ISPD4XFBTF4O7JYWZVENR5K3U Jana

        gotta admit though… the dynamic content animations are awesome
        obviously this isn’t a feature exclusively in PowerPoint 2010 but its still useful

        • Cetaphiliac

          Actually they look annoying and a distraction to me. Go and watch a truly professional presentation like a Hollywood film. You’ll virtually never see them use anything but a cut and a dissolve (fade).

      • http://twitter.com/the_madman Marcus Harrison

        Guys, read this.

        We don’t need more than a fade-through. Seriously. Stop it with your silly slides, spins and explosions. Content > Presentation.

      • http://twitter.com/the_madman Marcus Harrison

        Guys, read this.

        We don’t need more than a fade-through. Seriously. Stop it with your silly slides, spins and explosions. Content > Presentation.

    • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

      I have to admit that the new Office UI looks very attractive and easy to use. Let’s not mince around, I don’t use OOo because it is slow and unattractive visually for it’s feature set compared to say AbiWord. Yes it has a lot more functionality than Abiword but it is far less elegant in presenting them and thus for me at least becomes less useful as a result.

      I am really hoping the LibreOffice project can manage to do something about the interaction design and the UI, not to mention their startup time. However for now the focus seems wisely to be on cleaning up decades of really suboptimal code to make this possible.

      Personally, I think I will continue to use Tomboy for my word processing, it works really well for me for roughly sketching ideas and has enough basic wordprocessing functionality to make it useful for the task (spell checking, basic type setting) and the Wiki-like linking of thoughts, plus definitions of notebooks makes managing a project in Tomboy much easier.

      Never the less, till the LibreOfficie guys bring something new to the UI experience and get a proper Windows build out of the door. I have been deploying IBM’s Lotus Symphony Notes 3 on my friends machines and the fairly simply UI changes in that release made a huge difference in how my friends and family see OpenOffice.. which is now actually on occasion called beautiful and functional rather than considered the crappy piece of software they put up with to avoid paying Microsoft for MS Office or pirating the same.

      • Anonymous

        after going to Tools -> Options -> Java and unchecking the “Use Java runtime environment” my ooo writing starts in 1.5 seconds.

        • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

          What kind of feature regression are we looking at for doing that.

          • Anonymous

            Macros that i never use.

    • http://twitter.com/toetjesman henk de vries

      looks like they got impressed by compiz

    • Anonymous

      Try http://www.gliffy.com/uses/org-chart-software/ if you need SmartArt. It gives you 5 free diagrams at a time, if you sign up.

  • http://twitter.com/me4oslav Georgi Karavasilev

    Great news!

  • Anonymous

    what is the current differences in LibreOffice vs Openoffice?

    • dRewsus

      Im curious about this too. Whats all the hubbub about?

    • http://twitter.com/pisahmet Ahmet Sezgin Duran

      Nothing at this time.

      • http://www.google.com/profiles/ISantop Ian

        I’d hardly call it nothing, but there are no new features or changes to the program’s operation. Rather, it’s more changes in the underlying code, like removing old comments and optimization.

        • Anonymous

          Removing old comments? pfff

    • https://launchpad.net/~winniemiel05 winniemiel05

      LIbre office can read and save OpenXML documents ( used in M$ 2007 and 2010, with docx, pptx…) almost perfectly, OpenOffice no.

      • http://twitter.com/fosspowered Anurag Panda

        Really?

  • Anonymous

    Is that possible to install that PPA on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)?

    If not, how should I proceed to get it on Karmic?

    Thank you

  • http://twitter.com/virusmiurasv Nick Goodfate

    i installed it (finally, thanks to the help from a comment here, thank you ciborium), but i have a problem with spell check. there are no languages installed(i think). Any help of how to add Greek, for example?

    • http://twitter.com/virusmiurasv Nick Goodfate

      solved. i installed Greek dictionary of ooo…

  • slumbergod

    Sorry m$ Office moaners but if you don’t want to use LibreOffice then don’t! Why post comments here telling us it isn’t m$ Office. Duh! We know that. I gave up on all m$ products when they went all hissy-fit about piracy.

    LibreOffice RC2 is faster than OOo on my machine. It includes gnome shortcuts which the other popular repo lacked. Unfortunately, it installs all the OpenJava junk too (only needed for certain features within the office suite). Great repo and great alternative. No more m$, no more Oracle.

    • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

      If Libre/Open Office (.org) wants to be a good Office application, then sorry, Microsoft Office is competition. Resting on the laurels of “welp, it’s FOSS” isn’t a good way to innovate and improve your software.

      As far as LibreOffice competing with OpenOffice, great! Hopefully that’ll mean they’ll both improve as they’re on a more even ground with each other.
      I think it’s too early to compare them though, as LibreOffice hasn’t yet reached an official release.

      • http://tgyhujikol88.myopenid.com/ tang0th

        Do you call what they’ve done to Libreoffice so far ‘Resting on the laurels’.
        Lots of developers are joining Libreoffice and lots of work is being done. At the moment they’re / were cleaning up the code-base, removing redundant German comments and generally making the existing features faster and more stable. I don’t think that that is the pace people who are ‘Resting on the laurels of “welp, it’s FOSS”‘ develop???

        • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

          As I said, it’s too early to tell what they’ll do. Right now, as you said, it has been a lot of code clean up and rebranding.

    • http://twitter.com/zc456 Zenon Tigerpaw

      I will never understand that. Honestly, as long as it gets the job done… Who cares what Office suit you use?

    • http://profiles.google.com/keith.browne23 keith browne

      I wasted a lot of $ on M$ products. I’ve been using OOo for a long time and now LibreOffice on my Linux box. M$ products days are numbered on my other box.

  • http://twitter.com/inkubux Francis Belanger

    Nice I was waiting for this to try it

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alexander-Wilms/100001241353707 Alexander Wilms

    What makes LibreOffice look non-native? Whats the difference to other gtk apps?

    • http://www.google.com/profiles/ISantop Ian

      Neither OOo nor LO are GTK apps.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alexander-Wilms/100001241353707 Alexander Wilms

    What makes LibreOffice look non-native? Whats the difference to other gtk apps?

  • http://technos.wordpress.com/ Daniele80

    Libreoffice removes ooo-thumnailer, the nautilus addon that generates the odf thumbnails.

    Any ideas? Is it possible to have a libreoffice-thumbnailer?

  • http://technos.wordpress.com/ Daniele80

    Libreoffice removes ooo-thumnailer, the nautilus addon that generates the odf thumbnails.

    Any ideas? Is it possible to have a libreoffice-thumbnailer?

  • Anonymous

    it remove openoffice and it won’t open need fix that

  • Alexander Karatarakis

    Little note to those interested, Zotero works perfectly well with LibreOffice, its just that you have to change the pathnames on the firefox plugin. Specifically:

    Go to the “Zotero OpenOffice Integration” extension of firefox and click Preferences. You need to change:
    -JAVA UNO Runtime Directory
    from
    “file:///usr/lib/openoffice/basis-link/ure-link/share/java/”
    to
    “file:///usr/lib/libreoffice/basis-link/ure-link/share/java/”

    and
    -soffice Executable Directory
    from
    “file:///usr/lib/openoffice/program/”
    to
    “file:///usr/lib/libreoffice/program/”

    (without the quotes)
    :)

    • Dismoeds

      Thanks, worked a treat :)

  • Alexander Karatarakis

    As another user mentioned, if you get a non-native look (looks like windows 95 or sth), just:
    sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk

  • Anonymous

    Hello.
    I have a problem. I installed LibreOffice via PPA without a problem but the problem comes, when I tried install slovenian language pack. Here are the commands:

    tomaz@tomaz-Desktop:~$ cd Namizje/DEBS/
    tomaz@tomaz-Desktop:~/Namizje/DEBS$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
    (Reading database … 201158 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to replace libobasis3.3-sl 3.3.0-18 (using libobasis3.3-sl_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libobasis3.3-sl …
    Preparing to replace libobasis3.3-sl-base 3.3.0-18 (using libobasis3.3-sl-base_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libobasis3.3-sl-base …
    Preparing to replace libobasis3.3-sl-binfilter 3.3.0-18 (using libobasis3.3-sl-binfilter_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libobasis3.3-sl-binfilter …
    Preparing to replace libobasis3.3-sl-calc 3.3.0-18 (using libobasis3.3-sl-calc_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libobasis3.3-sl-calc …
    Preparing to replace libobasis3.3-sl-help 3.3.0-18 (using libobasis3.3-sl-help_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libobasis3.3-sl-help …
    Preparing to replace libobasis3.3-sl-math 3.3.0-18 (using libobasis3.3-sl-math_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libobasis3.3-sl-math …
    Preparing to replace libobasis3.3-sl-res 3.3.0-18 (using libobasis3.3-sl-res_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libobasis3.3-sl-res …
    Preparing to replace libobasis3.3-sl-writer 3.3.0-18 (using libobasis3.3-sl-writer_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libobasis3.3-sl-writer …
    Preparing to replace libreoffice3-dict-sl 3.3.0-18 (using libreoffice3-dict-sl_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libreoffice3-dict-sl …
    Preparing to replace libreoffice3-sl 3.3.0-18 (using libreoffice3-sl_3.3.0-18_amd64.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement libreoffice3-sl …
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libobasis3.3-sl:
    libobasis3.3-sl depends on libobasis3.3-core01; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-core01 is not installed.
    dpkg: error processing libobasis3.3-sl (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libobasis3.3-sl-base:
    libobasis3.3-sl-base depends on libobasis3.3-sl; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libobasis3.3-sl-base (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libobasis3.3-sl-binfilter:
    libobasis3.3-sl-binfilter depends on libobasis3.3-sl; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libobasis3.3-sl-binfilter (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libobasis3.3-sl-calc:
    libobasis3.3-sl-calc depends on libobasis3.3-sl; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libobasis3.3-sl-calc (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libobasis3.3-sl-help:
    libobasis3.3-sl-help depends on libobasis3.3-sl; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libobasis3.3-sl-help (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libobasis3.3-sl-math:
    libobasis3.3-sl-math depends on libobasis3.3-sl; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libobasis3.3-sl-math (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libobasis3.3-sl-res:
    libobasis3.3-sl-res depends on libobasis3.3-sl; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libobasis3.3-sl-res (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libobasis3.3-sl-writer:
    libobasis3.3-sl-writer depends on libobasis3.3-sl; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libobasis3.3-sl-writer (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice3-dict-sl:
    libreoffice3-dict-sl depends on libreoffice3-ure; however:
    Package libreoffice3-ure is not installed.
    libreoffice3-dict-sl depends on libobasis3.3-core01; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-core01 is not installed.
    libreoffice3-dict-sl depends on libobasis3.3-core02; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-core02 is not installed.
    libreoffice3-dict-sl depends on libobasis3.3-core03; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-core03 is not installed.
    libreoffice3-dict-sl depends on libobasis3.3-core04; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-core04 is not installed.
    libreoffice3-dict-sl depends on libobasis3.3-core05; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-core05 is not installed.
    libreoffice3-dict-sl depends on libobasis3.3-core06; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-core06 is not installed.
    libreoffice3-dict-sl depends on libobasis3.3-core07; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-core07 is not installed.
    libreoffice3-dict-sl depends on libreoffice3; however:
    Package libreoffice3 is not installed.
    dpkg: error processing libreoffice3-dict-sl (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice3-sl:
    libreoffice3-sl depends on libreoffice3; however:
    Package libreoffice3 is not installed.
    libreoffice3-sl depends on libobasis3.3-sl; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl is not configured yet.
    libreoffice3-sl depends on libobasis3.3-sl-base; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl-base is not configured yet.
    libreoffice3-sl depends on libobasis3.3-sl-calc; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl-calc is not configured yet.
    libreoffice3-sl depends on libobasis3.3-sl-math; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl-math is not configured yet.
    libreoffice3-sl depends on libobasis3.3-sl-res; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl-res is not configured yet.
    libreoffice3-sl depends on libobasis3.3-sl-writer; however:
    Package libobasis3.3-sl-writer is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libreoffice3-sl (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    libobasis3.3-sl
    libobasis3.3-sl-base
    libobasis3.3-sl-binfilter
    libobasis3.3-sl-calc
    libobasis3.3-sl-help
    libobasis3.3-sl-math
    libobasis3.3-sl-res
    libobasis3.3-sl-writer
    libreoffice3-dict-sl
    libreoffice3-sl

    Any ideas?

    • http://twitter.com/discernir Badi Hernandez

      Hi, Did you manage to fix the depdencies problem? I ran into the same trying to install spanish. Thanks

      • Anonymous

        Hello. Yes, I found the way how to fix this problem. Just go to Software Center Ubuntu in on the left side choose LibreOffice ppa. There you’ll see a lot of packages. Choose spanish language pack and click Install. That worked for me ;)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MUMXWAIVJESRAJ5FCSFA4YO3LE Jordan

    You know what’s terrible about Libre and Open Office? The code base has been around for a long while, BUT it still can’t do COPY and PASTE basics. Try this – go to Applications – Accessories – Take Screenshot – Select an Area to capture – Save to Clipboard, now PASTE – it does not work. This task is so basic its amazing it does not work! I had to install Abiword to get that feature alone. That’s terrible for an older program supposedly “mature.”

    • http://www.displayblock.com/ Matt

      Not sure what your issue is. I just tried that with Libre Office Writer and it pasted just fine.

    • http://twitter.com/sparksman Keiran Sparksman

      Sounds like your clipboard manager’s to blame. KDE/Gnome?

    • http://twitter.com/sparksman Keiran Sparksman

      Sounds like your clipboard manager’s to blame. KDE/Gnome?

  • Anonymous

    Hey, anybody knows how to install, say, the French version from the ppa? I could have a look on the website, but I know I’ll get the answer faster here! :)

    • http://twitter.com/sparksman Keiran Sparksman

      There’s not a libreoffice-l10n-fr package in the Lucid repository, or a libreoffice-hyphenation-fr package, but they have done libreoffice-help-fr.

      I’m guessing it the exact same extension that you’d use to install openoffice-org packages?

      • Anonymous

        Just found the libreoffice-l10n-fr package in the PPA for Maverick, through the software centre. (it installed automatically when I installed the French help package). LibreOffice was automatically in French when I ran it. Works perfectly! Thanks for the help.

    • http://twitter.com/sparksman Keiran Sparksman

      There’s not a libreoffice-l10n-fr package in the Lucid repository, or a libreoffice-hyphenation-fr package, but they have done libreoffice-help-fr.

      I’m guessing it the exact same extension that you’d use to install openoffice-org packages?

  • http://twitter.com/stabbyjones salmon

    Ubuntu has an experimental repo like Debian right?
    LibreOffice has been in experimental since the first RC.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ICV4WEXTYE5SC2POQEQMWKZOEU Matt

    My personal feelings are that FOSS/Open Source/Fress Software/Libre Software is the most ethical solution to software licensing.

    However, I also feel that when it comes to the “quality” of software licensing is irrelevant.

    And also “good” and “bad” (in terms of quality) are merely the opposite ends of a spectrum – not absolutes.

    And also, as conveyed by of Linus Torvalds “Himself”, it is, for specific tasks, often necessary to use ‘the best tool for the job’.

    So while i will always philosophically favor Free Software (as in freedom), I feel that that dose not stop other software from being “better” in some respects (even if i personally hate the software). Sometimes commercial/propiatery options are the only viable option to accomplish what you are attempting as well.

    e.g. Nvidia drivers :(, X-Plane flight simulator instead of FlightGear, M$ Office for users seeking intuitive/visually appealing UI/UX… The list, unfortunately, goes on – thats life.

    In short (and i know this comments been long) Freedom is great, so long as you get the features as well.

  • Anonymous

    Is that possible to install that PPA on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)?

    If not, how should I proceed to get it on Karmic?

    Thank you

  • http://twitter.com/Sahilshines Sahil Hassan

    can some1 plz attach a snaphot of libre office(with libre office gtk),i just wanna c its interface….
    natty is goin to hav libreoffice or open office????

  • http://www.fspressonline.org Trinae Ross

    For those having problems with spell checking in LO, you might have to download your dictionary from here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/dictionaries

    • http://bmw2008.myopenid.com/ Bruce Wolfe

      When using or installing LibreOffice, without this morsel of information, the whole project is a showstopper for any use be it academic or business or even just personal.

      LibreOffice folks must be sure to include this in the installation package or fix the problem.

    • http://bmw2008.myopenid.com/ Bruce Wolfe

      When using or installing LibreOffice, without this morsel of information, the whole project is a showstopper for any use be it academic or business or even just personal.

      LibreOffice folks must be sure to include this in the installation package or fix the problem.

  • http://twitter.com/tutopod Arif Setyawan

    i cannot even install it on maverick, the error would said that system has crash? what was it about?

  • Anonymous

    I had problems when installing LibreOffice with the Scrollbars.
    After a while off surfing on the net i found a solution on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1590957#edit10048766
    Here is how it looks:
    http://i.imgur.com/Zx6pJ.png

    Edit the gtkrc file for the elementary theme.
    Code:
    $ gksudo gedit /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

    Replace:
    GtkRange ::slider-width = 8

    With:
    GtkRange ::slider-width = 10

    Replace:
    GtkScrollbar ::has-backward-stepper = 0
    GtkScrollbar ::has-forward-stepper = 0

    With:
    GtkScrollbar ::has-backward-stepper = 1
    GtkScrollbar ::has-forward-stepper = 1

    Replace:
    GtkScrolledWindow ::scrollbars-within-bevel = 1

    With:
    GtkScrolledWindow ::scrollbars-within-bevel = 0

    Finally, replace the entire scroll bar definition:
    Code:

    style “murrine-scrollbar”
    {
    .
    .
    .
    }

    With:
    Code:
    style “murrine-scrollbar”
    {

    fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
    fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
    fg[ACTIVE] = @fg_color
    fg[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)

    bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.90, @selected_bg_color)

    engine “murrine”
    {
    contrast = 0.5
    roundness = 3
    lightborderstyle = 1
    }
    }

  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/zzarko Zarko

    Well, here is my comment… I have actively used MS Office for quite some time, and OpenOffice too. I work at the faculty and have almost all M$ software (OS, Office, dev tools, etc) available for $0. I use Ubuntu and OOo. Also available for $0. Once a year, I have a task to do some corrections on a document written in Word (at professor’s computer). The document (about 300 pages) was initially, I think, written in Word 2000, but it’s transition to newer versions of Word were always pain in the a**. Every time a Office version changed, I had to reformat almost the entire document form scratch, as it looked completly messed up in new version (and before someone asks, yes, I know how to use styles, and I use them extensively). Every time I have to use Word, I want to bash my keyboard (actually, professor’s) into pieces, because it’s SO F****** SMART, it always knows how to mess up what I want to write/change/whatever.

    OOo has its quirks, of course, but I found it to be much less in the way while I’m working on something. I understand that a lot of people want flashy UI, but I need a tool that gets the job done without getting in my way. As for speed, I hope that LO will ditch Java and speed things up (quite) a bit.

    Ubuntu 10.10 version of OOo Calc has a bug that prevents it from correctly calculating N() function (I fileld a bug about this), so I had to install Oracle’s version, which works as expected, and is not replaced by LO (I’m installing it right now).

    Edit: I was unble to install LO because:
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a3.3.0~rc2-3maverick1_all.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  • http://twitter.com/eeperry Elmer Perry

    Well, it removed OpenOffice, which I didn’t want to happen. Need to reinstall OpenOffice. unistalled LibreOffice, purged it. Disabled PPA. Try to install OpenOffice and I get unmet dependancies and messages about broken packages. Tried fixing packages in synaptic. No go. Really need OpenOffice working again…

  • Anonymous

    This is so much faster than OO.o!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QYTW33QLGP337WHTLNNWLZQEZI Stuart

    I suppose being a bad user, admittingly, i copy pasted the commands, and for some reason libreoffice isnt opening. I get a error that says there is “no such file or directory”. This is after entering everything for the PPA. Tried looking up to see if others have had this issue, but nothing. I realize this is in beta, so issues do occur. Anyone have an idea how to fix?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QYTW33QLGP337WHTLNNWLZQEZI Stuart

    I suppose being a bad user, admittingly, i copy pasted the commands, and for some reason libreoffice isnt opening. I get a error that says there is “no such file or directory”. This is after entering everything for the PPA. Tried looking up to see if others have had this issue, but nothing. I realize this is in beta, so issues do occur. Anyone have an idea how to fix?

  • http://twitter.com/MrBom Antoine Bommelaer

    I followed yr instructions above and I installed LibreOffice. To little success I must say:
    It would not Open a quite simple XLS
    Neither would it start a new one.

    On top of that OpenOffice had disappeared!!!

    I have now REMOVED LibreOffice and returned to OpenOffice! (even if I’m no big fan)

    NB for those this might interest, I ve discovered IBM Lotus Symphony – that is very neat.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RQT3PUR3JN5WJ2ZETREERMBM4M Zamato

    Awesome. I love the splash screen.

  • http://twitter.com/flywheeltech Flywheel Tech

    our company has been using LibreOffice for over a month now with no issues. all of our estimate worksheets, templates, and everything transitioned very smoothly from OOo and we have had no problems. we switched from the deb installed versions to the PPAs last week with no issue.

  • Anonymous

    I installed it via PPA, but like another user pointed out, it won’t open or create files. After a pain uninstallation, I tried installing it via deb package, but it constantly threw up errors. Now I’m back on OpenOffice (which, for some reason, isn’t restored to the default theme), and am wondering what to do. Help?

  • http://twitter.com/karsvadesign karsvadesign

    So far it worked for me. Thanks for the lines of code. It looks very similar to OpenOffice. I hope it will be just as good and or become even better!

  • Anonymous

    Well, there must be another step to this procedure. I followed it exactly and something of LibreOffice installed on my Ubuntu 10.04. However, after selecting Applications > Office > LibraOffice icon > opens LibreOffice, which lists:
    Text Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing, Database, and Formula, but they are grayed out and not selectable. The only two selectable items are: Open and Templates. Also, when OpenOffice was installed Applications listed all the separate Office tools, as it did when I installed LibreOffice in Ubuntu 10.04 running in a virtual box but installed using a nonPPA method.
    So, what’s missing from this procedure or PPA?
    Thanks

    • Anonymous

      OK, so now I am answering my own question. The missing step is to install “libreoffice productivity suite” using Ubuntu’s synaptic package manager.

      The synaptic package manager also suggests:
      You can extend the functionality of LibreOffice by installing these
      packages:
      * hunspell-dictionary-*/myspell-dictionary-*: Hunspell/Myspell dictionaries
      for use with LibreOffice
      * libreoffice-l10n-*: UI interface translation
      * libreoffice-help-*: User help
      * libreoffice-thesaurus-*: Thesauri for the use with LibreOffice
      * libreoffice-hyphenation-*: Hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice
      * libreoffice-gtk: Gtk UI Plugin, GNOME File Picker support,
      QuickStarter for GNOMEs notification are
      * libreoffice-gnome: GNOME VFS, GConf backend
      * menu: Will add libreoffice menu entries for every Debian window manager.
      * unixodbc: ODBC database support
      * cups-bsd: Allows LibreOffice to detect your CUPS printer queues
      automatically
      * libsane: Use your sane-supported scanner with LibreOffice
      * libxrender1: Speed up display by using Xrender library
      * libgl1: OpenGL support
      * openclipart-libreoffice: Open Clip Art Gallery with LibreOffice index
      files
      * iceweasel | firefox | icedove | thunderbird | iceape-browser | mozilla-browser:
      Mozilla profile with Certificates needed for XML Security…
      * openjdk-6-jre | gcj-jre | java5-runtime:
      Java Runtime Environment for use with LibreOffice
      * pstoedit / imagemagick: helper tools for EPS thumbnails
      * gstreamer0.10-plugins-*: GStreamer plugins for use with LibreOffices
      media backend
      * libpaper-utils: papersize detection support via paperconf
      * libldap-2.4-2: LDAP client library; needed for OOo getting its profiles
      from LDAP

  • http://twitter.com/ltfang Li Tai Fang

    Will this repo update LibreOffice when new versions come out? Because ya know, Ubuntu’s main repo never updates to new versions of a 3rd-party software, only security updates.

  • http://twitter.com/ltfang Li Tai Fang

    Will this repo update LibreOffice when new versions come out? Because ya know, Ubuntu’s main repo never updates to new versions of a 3rd-party software, only security updates.

  • http://broadbandblog.in Stereo

    Too late here…but a quick review of this install in one word : Brilliant. They have cleaned up the “bugs” and it feels a “light weight” contender. Great release and am glad to get rid of “Open Office”. (Running Linux Mint 9).

  • Anonymous

    LO4 still not in here :(

  • Rodrigo Kataishi

    Hy there. May be you can help me with this little problem. :)
    I’ve updated via ppa in natty to the latest avalilable version of libreoffice (3.3 nowadays), and everything worked just fine, but the globalmenu (or appmenu, lo-menu, or whatever you want to call it) does not work anymore. The global menu applet does not recognize (or catch) anymore libreoffice.
    Does anybody know any workaround for this issue?
    Thanks in advance!

  • Rodrigo Kataishi

    Hy there. May be you can help me with this little problem. :)
    I’ve updated via ppa in natty to the latest avalilable version of libreoffice (3.3 nowadays), and everything worked just fine, but the globalmenu (or appmenu, lo-menu, or whatever you want to call it) does not work anymore. The global menu applet does not recognize (or catch) anymore libreoffice.
    Does anybody know any workaround for this issue?
    Thanks in advance!

  • Danang Indra

    I do not think it good if downloaded deb files deleted, because not all computer users use the internet connection, so I hope to continue the deb file

 
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