Install Libreoffice in Mint 17

Make sure you make a BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM, just in case things go wrong.

If you still have the Libreoffice installed from when you first installed your OS and you want to use the newest repository version, you can add a PPA and upgrade that way. This way does not always give you the newest version from LibreOffice but should be newer then your current version installed on your system now.

Here’s How To Install a newer version of LibreOffice:

Open a Terminal window by pressing (Ctrl+Alt+T)

Next copy and paste into the terminal window one at a time

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

Close the terminal window and go to your menu and then office and open your LibreOffice and check what version your using.

Want to install Libreoffice in Mint 17. Don’t want to wait for the repo’s to catch up. This is the way I install the newest Libreoffice in my Mint 17.x box’s.

First you will need to download the newest version from the Libreoffice website. Click here for a link to the site. When you click on the Download button, you my need to change from a RPM type file to either the Linux x86 (deb) for 32 bit or Linux x64 (deb) for a 64 bit machine.

Once you have downloaded the file you will need to up zip it and Extract the DEBS dir into your Home Directory.

Now you will need to remove the current Libreoffice that was installed when you first installed your system. Here’s how:

From you Menu button go to Administrator or System and open Synaptic.

Next in the search box type in libreoffice and hit enter

Mark all entries that start with libreoffice – next Right Mouse click on any of the highlighted files and click on Mark for Removal.

Once that’s done, close Synaptic and open a Terminal window by pressing (Ctrl+Alt+T).

Copy and past the following commands one at a time.

You need to change to the Home DEBS directory by doing this:

cd /home/bob/DEBS (Don’t forget to change the name bob to your home name. Also don’t forget to capitalize DEBS.)

sudo dpkg -i *.deb (this will install all the debian packages in the DEBS directory)

Once it has finished, close the Terminal window and then with the File Manager go delete the DEBS directory you had copied to your Home Directory. You may also want to backup the Libreoffice zip file you downloaded. It’s about 200MB and you don’t want wasted space in your Home Directory.

Now from the Menu button go to Office and select LibreOffice 4.x to open it. You can go to Help then About LibreOffice to see what version your running.

Already installed a newer version in the past and want the newest from LibreOffice again.

Here’s How to Install the Newest version:

From you Menu button go to Administrator or System and open Synaptic.

Next in the search box type in libreoffice and hit enter

Scroll down and you will find about 33 files that start with libobasis Example: libobasis4.3-base. Click on the the first one, this will highlight it. Next scroll down to the end of the libobasis files (about 33 of them) then hold down your Shift key and Left Mouse click on the last file in the list and this will select all the packages you want to remove from your system.

Next Right Mouse click on any of the highlighted files and click on Mark for Removal.

Click on Mark then Apply to start removing your old Libreoffice from your system.

Once that’s done, close Synaptic and open a Terminal window.

Copy and past the following commands one at a time.

You need to change to the Home DEBS directory by doing this:

cd /home/bob/DEBS (Don’t forget to change the name bob to your home name. Also don’t forget to capitalize DEBS.)

sudo dpkg -i *.deb (this will install all the debian packages in the DEBS directory)

Now from the Menu button go to Office and select LibreOffice 4.x to open it. You can go to Help then About LibreOffice to see what version your running.

Have fun with it.

Let me know if you have any problems.