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Libre Office on Ubuntu Linux (and the EEEPC)

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Libre Office is the latest development split from the more known Open Office project. There has been, recently, a lot of talking about it since it seems that it will be shipped in future Ubuntu’s releases replacing Open Office. I decided to give it a first person look and install it on the EEEPC, where I usually write my blog posts.

 

Download and installation

 

Libre office isn’t include yet in Ubuntu’s repositories so installing is a little tricky but not difficult. I downloaded installation files from Libre Office download page. Installation files are three archives: a bigger main installation archive and smaller language and help-files archives. The download page properly recognised my operating system and language offering by default the correct files. A torrent download option is also available.

The downloaded archives contain a lot of .deb package files. After extracting all .deb files on the same folder I simply changed directory to where files where extracted and executed the following command on every folder:

sudo dpkg –install *.deb

Once the install process ended all programs of Libre Office suite have been made available in the “Office” folder of Ubuntu’s NBR interface.

 
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