As you may know, LibreOffice is the most popular, open-source Office suite, available by default on some of the most popular Linux systems.
LibreOffice 5.0 has been released today, bringing interesting new features.
The highlights of Libreoffice 5.0:
- A new version for new endeavours
- A beautiful office suite designed by a fantastic community
- Spreadsheets that rock
- Better filters for better documents
- Availability and enterprise deployments
For more information about this release, see the official announcement.
Installation instructions:
Up to date packages are available via the LibreOffice PPA, so installing the office suite on Ubuntu systems is easy. Add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the libreoffice package:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice
Optional, to remove libreoffice, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove libreoffice
The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint 6, Peppermint 5, LXLE 14.04 and Linux Lite 2.