Here is how to download and install the LibreOffice latest version in Ubuntu command line. LibreOffice 24.2 is the latest version for Ubuntu Systems.
The LibreOffice 24.2 comes with limited new features and some of the remarkable ones are:
- Comments can now use styles.
- A new way to highlight the row and column for the active cell. This feature can be enabled via Tools > Options > LibreOffice Calc > View, or through the menu entry View > Column/Row Highlighting.
- A new calendar-based numbering scheme (YY.M) is introduced since this release.
- Changes in automatic saving of documents: “Save AutoRecovery information” is turned on by default, as well as “Always create backup copies”.
- The save with password dialog now features a password strength meter that utilizes zxcvbn-c to determine the password strength.
- For a full list of new features in LibreOffice 24.2, you can visit the official release notes.
Go to the official LibreOffice download page and download the latest version. You can use the wget command to download LibreOffice directly from the terminal.
Let us assume that we are going to install libreoffice7.6 using the following terminal commands:
cd /tmp
wget https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/7.6.4/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.6.4_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
tar zxvf LibreOffice_7.6.4_Linux_x86-64*
cd /tmp/LibreOffice_7.6.4.1_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.debOnce you have installed the LibreOffice, you can start/open the application from Applications –> Office menu or type the command “libreoffice7.6” (we have installed libreoffice7.6 for this tutorial, you will have to enter the appropriate command for your version) in the terminal.
NOTE: The Document Foundation doesn’t provide 32bit binaries for Linux Systems. Which means you can no longer install LibreOffice 24.2 on 32 bit architecture.
Users can only install LibreOffice 24.2 on a 64bit system or get LibreOffice from their Linux distribution’s repositories instead.