Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 1 has been released a while ago. Among others, it comes with some fixes for the subscript text, improved RTF and DOCX export and import and the equations are now properly displayed in the status bar. For more information, see the changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 1 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian, Crunchbang and KWheezy.
It is not available via PPA, but we can easily download the archive from the official site and install the deb packages inside with dpkg. Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 1 on 32 bit Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian, Crunchbang and KWheezy systems:
$ wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/4.2.0/deb/x86/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
How to install LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 1 on 64 bit Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian, Crunchbang and KWheezy systems:
$ wget -c download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/4.2.0/deb/x86_64/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
$ cd LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb