Install LibreOffice 6 on CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu & Linux Mint

LibreOffice is the Linux alternative for the office suite that every day we must use thousands of users to carry out tasks such as:

• Creating text or multimedia files

• Preparation of presentations

LibreOffice is an open source software and is a project of the non-profit organization, The Document Foundation, which seeks to offer users a broad suite, with high functionalities, but with a simplicity of use.

When using LibreOffice, we will be facing a suite that offers advanced functions at the level of Word documents, data processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, Calc and many other applications.

Now we will see how to install LibreOffice 6 in the different distributions of Linux.

Install LibreOffice on CentOS 7

1. Download LibreOffice by selecting the package for your Linux architecture; we are going to use Wget. First, access the tmp directory:

cd/tmp

2. Now execute according to your architecture:

32-bit

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/rpm/x86/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz

64-bit

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz

3. Remove any previous versions of OpenOffice and LibreOffice if they exist:

yum remove openoffice* libreoffice*

4. Extract the content of the downloaded file, for this; we execute one of the following lines:

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz (32 bits)

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz (64 bits)

5. Access to the RPMS directory:

32 bit

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86_rpm/RPMS/

64 bit

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS/

6. Now install LibreOffice:

yum localinstall *.rpm

7. You can run LibreOffice with this:

libreoffice6.0

 

Install LibreOffice on Debian 9

1. Download LibreOffice based on the architecture:
32-bit

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/deb/x86/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz

64-bit

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

2. Remove the previous versions of LibreOffice:

sudo apt-get remove openoffice* libreoffice*

3. Extract the downloaded file:

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz (32-bits)

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz (64-bits)

4. Install LibreOffice 6.0 packages:

32-bits

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS/

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

64-bits

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

5. Run LibreOffice 6.0:

libreoffice6.0

 

Install LibreOffice in Fedora 27

 

1. Download the LibreOffice RPM package from the official site:

32-bits

cd /tmp

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/rpm/x86/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz

64-bits

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz

2. Uninstall LibreOffice & OpenOffice previous versions:

yum remove openoffice* libreoffice*

3. Extract the content of the downloaded RPM:

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz (32-bits)

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz (64-bits)

4. Install LibreOffice 6.0 executing one of the following commands:
32-bits

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86_rpm/RPMS/

dnf install *.rpm

64-bits

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS/

dnf install *.rpm

 

Install LibreOffice on Ubuntu 17

For Ubuntu 17 distribution the process is similar.

1. Download the DEB file according to your architecture like this:

 

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/deb/x86/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

 

 

2. Remove previous LibreOffice and OpenOffice packages installed:

sudo apt-get remove openoffice* libreoffice*

3. Extract the contents of the DEB package:

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz (32-bits)

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz (64-bits)

4. Install LibreOffice 6.0:
32-bits

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS/

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

64-bits

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

 

Install LibreOffice in Linux Mint

1. Download the DEB file according to our architecture:

 

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/deb/x86/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.0/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

 

2. Remove existing LibreOffice and OpenOffice packages:

sudo apt-get remove openoffice* libreoffice*

3. Extract the contents of the DEB package:

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz (32-bits)

tar -xvf LibreOffice_6.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz (64-bits)

4. Install LibreOffice on Linux Mint:
32-bits

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS/

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

64-bits

cd /tmp/LibreOffice_6.0.0.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

 

Thus, we have seen the various options to install LibreOffice 6.0 in some of the most used distributions of Linux.