{"id":6113,"date":"2016-08-09T02:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T02:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2016-08-11T02:12:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:12:13","slug":"libreoffice-5-2-ppa-ubuntu-16-04-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/libreoffice-5-2-ppa-ubuntu-16-04-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"LibreOffice 5.2 PPA is Ready for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/libreoffice-logo245.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/libreoffice-logo245.png\" alt=\"LibreOffice 5.2\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>LibreOffice 5.2 is finally available for upgrade in Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA repository.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although LibreOffice 5.2 was released a weed ago along with <i>.deb binaries<\/i>, <i>Flatpak<\/i>, and <i>Snap<\/i> (still in beta) packages, a PPA repository, with well Unity integrated packages, is still needed for some users. Now the PPA is ready, and here&#8217;s how to upgrade for beginners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libreoffice5-2-about.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libreoffice5-2-about-450x334.jpg\" alt=\"LibreOffice 5.2.0 About\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libreoffice5-2-about-450x334.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libreoffice5-2-about.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>What&#8217;s new in LibreOffice 5.2:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>a single toolbar mode for Writer and Calc<\/li>\n<li>most of the context menus can now be customized<\/li>\n<li>new Calc spreadsheet functions (including forecasting functions)<\/li>\n<li>support for signature descriptions<\/li>\n<li>support for OOXML signature import\/export<\/li>\n<li>GTK3 user-interface improvements<\/li>\n<li>OpenGL rendering improvements<\/li>\n<li>multi-threaded 3D rendering, faster rendering<\/li>\n<li>bookmark improvements.<\/li>\n<li>See <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.documentfoundation.org\/ReleaseNotes\/5.2\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a> for more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to install LibreOffice 5.2 in Ubuntu via PPA:<\/h4>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> First open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add LibreOffice Fresh PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password when it prompts and hit Enter, read the PPA description, and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libreoffice-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libreoffice-ppa-600x97.jpg\" alt=\"LibreOffice PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"97\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libreoffice-ppa-600x97.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libreoffice-ppa-450x72.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libreoffice-ppa.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Upgrade LibreOffice via <b>Software Updater<\/b>, after checking for updates. <del>removing the package <code>libreoffice-gtk<\/code><\/del>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\"><del>The current build in PPA uses the package <b>libreoffice-gtk2<\/b> instead of the default <b>libreoffice-gtk<\/b>, so Software Updater or (<code>apt upgrade<\/code>) will keep back the original LibreOffice release.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><del>To fix it, simple remove <b>libreoffice-gtk<\/b> before the upgrade process:<\/del><\/p>\n<p>The PPA has re-built the package with traditional <b>libreoffice-gtk<\/b> package added, so just launch Software Updater and upgrade your system.<\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade-libreoffice520.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade-libreoffice520-450x312.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade to LibreOffice 5.2\" width=\"450\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade-libreoffice520-450x312.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade-libreoffice520-600x416.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade-libreoffice520.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead of using <b>Software Updater<\/b>, you may also use the <code>dist-upgrade<\/code> command to upgrade to LibreOffice 5.2:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade<\/pre>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> (Optional) To downgrade to LibreOffice 5.1.4, purge the PPA via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LibreOffice 5.2 is finally available for upgrade in Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA repository. Although LibreOffice 5.2 was released a weed ago along with .deb binaries, Flatpak, and Snap (still in beta) packages, a PPA repository, with well Unity integrated packages, is still needed for some users. Now the PPA is ready, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1009,1364],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-libreoffice","tag-libreoffice-5-2-ppa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}