LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, the word processor, Calc, the spreadsheet application, Impress, the presentation engine, Draw, our drawing and flowcharting application, Base, our database and database frontend, and Math for editing mathematics. Its clean interface and powerful tools let you unleash your creativity and grow your productivity. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.
LibreOffice is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office. Your documents will look professional and clean, regardless of their purpose: a letter, a master thesis, a brochure, financial reports, marketing presentations, technical drawings and diagrams. LibreOffice is compatible with many document formats such as Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes further by enabling you to use a modern open standard, the OpenDocument Format (ODF). LibreOffice is easily extensible through its powerful extensions mechanisms.

LibreOffice 5.0 announcement: "This is the first stable release of the 5.0.x branch of LibreOffice which contains new features and program enhancements. As such, the version is stable and is suitable for all users. This version may contain a few annoying bugs which will be fixed in the next bugfix versions to come."



Release Notes:
  • Emoji and in-word replacement support.
  • Style & Formatting deck previews in the Sidebar.
  • Word-compatible text highlighting.
  • Crop an image with the mouse.
  • Better calculation of displayed page number
  • RTF, OOXML, XSLX, and DOC improvements.
  • Scientific Format and Number Format.
  • Export to PDF now supports the Time-Stamp Protocol.
  • Writer can now import Apple Pages files.
  • Draw can now import ClarisDraw and MacDraft.
  • Calc can now import Apple Pages files, Lotus 123 (wk3, wk4) and Quattro Pro files (wq1, wq2), via libwps.
  • Impress's user interface was improved to provide more space to the slide by hiding the text, shape and image formatting contextual toolbars.
  • Draw's user interface was improved by hiding formatting contextual toolbars, aligning the shapes toolbar to the left to resemble other drawing applications, and with an expanded sidebar to provide access to formatting options.
  • Slide Transition tab of the sidebar in Impress was rearranged to take better use of space.
  • Sidebar tabs in Impress were rearranged in this sequence - Properties, Slide Transition, Custom Animation, Master Slides.
  • Sections of the Properties tab in Calc were reorganized to remove unnecessary features and make it fit on smaller screen resolutions.
  • A new icon set, Breeze, has been added to LibreOffice.
  • Detailed list of changes can be found here.

To Install LibreOffice in Ubuntu 15.05 Vivid/15.10 Wily/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To upgrade from LibreOffice 4.x to 5.0, run following command:


To Install LibreOffice in Linux Mint 17.x/17/13 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following command in the Terminal (you can replace nano with your text editor):

Now paste following lines in the text file:
Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-libreoffice-libreoffice-5-0
Pin-Priority: 701

Now enter these commands to install:

To upgrade from previous LibreOffice, run following command:

Download LibreOffice for other distributions, That's it
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