Install LibreOffice on Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux Distros

LibreOffice is an Open Source office suite used by millions worldwide. You may use LibreOffice for private, educational, public administration, and even commercial purposes.

LibreOffice provides powerful features and comprises useful applications like a word processor, spreadsheet (like excel), and drawing and presentation.

It is free to download on as many devices as you like, free to pass copies to as many people as you like and you also get the same functionality across multiple platforms.

It is available for download on all Linux Distros, macOS and Windows.

Fire up the terminal, we show 3 different ways to install LibreOffice on Linux Distros.

Install LibreOffice on Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux Distros

LibreOffice can be installed on Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux Distros from the standard repository, PPA repository and snap application manager.

1. Install LibreOffice from the standard repository

You can execute the following commands to complete the installation procedure.

1. Update apt cache  

Update the apt cache before installing LibreOffice.

sudo apt update

2. Install LibreOffice

Please use the following command to install LibreOffice

sudo apt install libreoffice

You will be prompted "Do you want to continue?" [Y/n].

Press ‘y’ to continue installing LibreOffice.

You can check the LibreOffice version by using the following command.

sudo apt libreoffice --version

2. Install LibreOffice from PPA repository

We always find the latest release of software applications/packages through the PPA repositories.  

Please follow below-given steps to install LibreOffice from the PPA repository from the terminal.

1. Add LibreOffice PPA repository

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice

You will be prompted and given release information.

Press ‘Enter’ to add the LibreOffice PPA repository.

2. Update apt cache

sudo apt update

3. Install LibreOffice

Install the LibreOffice with this command

sudo apt install libreoffice

You can check the LibreOffice version by using the following command.

sudo apt libreoffice --version

or

libreoffice --version

3. Installing LibreOffice from snap

Snap is an application manager developed by Canonical and added to Ubuntu and most Linux Distro by default.

Incase there is any problem, we can enable and install snap with few commands.

1. Delete the nosnap.pref file using the following command

sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref

2. Update the apt cache

sudo apt update

3. Install snap

sudo apt install snapd

4. Install the LibreOffice via snap

sudo snap install libreoffice

5. Verify installation

snap info libreoffice

Closing Note

LibreOffice is actively tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. It is one of the most effective Open Source projects by The Document Foundation.

Please consider donating to keep LibreOffice advancing.

Thanks for making it to the end...