LibreOffice 3.3 on Linux Mint

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LibreOffice is now available in LaunchPad PPA.

Installing LibreOffice using this method completely removes OpenOffice.org from Linux Mint. You should backup all your custom templates, since purging OpenOffice.org completely deletes them. The spellchecker and the language support packages are also removed.

First you should remove OpenOffice.org by entering in the Terminal:

sudo apt-get purge openoffice*.*

To install LibreOffice, run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

For better compatibility with your desktop environment, you should install one more package:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

or

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde

To reinstall the English language support you can use:

sudo apt-get install language-support-en

For other languages just change en to something else, like ro for Romanian or fr for French.

Tested on Linux Mint 9 and on Linux Mint 10 and there are no issues. You will notice that LibreOffice 3.3 launches faster than OpenOffice.org 3.2 and the apps can be launched from the Mint Menu, from the ¨Office¨ category.

Please note that you may need to install some extensions from the official OpenOffice.org extensions repository, like a spell checker or a specific language pack. After installing some extension you should close LibreOffice and open it again to use the extension.

The keyboard shortcuts for OpenOffice.org should work with LibreOffice. For LibreOffice Calc you can enable the OpenOffice.org legacy shortcuts from the Tools > Options > Compatibility (key bindings) by replacing the default one.

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Tags: LibreOffice PPA Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick 10.04 Lucid
Created: 10 months ago.