{"id":7488,"date":"2018-02-09T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T14:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T14:20:15","slug":"install-libreoffice-6-0-ppa-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/install-libreoffice-6-0-ppa-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install LibreOffice 6.0 via PPA in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.10, 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/libreoffice-logo245.png\" alt=\"LibreOffice 5.3.4\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5168\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>LibreOffice office suite reached the 6.0 release more than a week ago. Now it&#8217;s finally made into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~libreoffice\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">LibreOffice Fresh PPA<\/a> for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Though LibreOffice offers .deb binaries for downloading in its website, it&#8217;s recommended to install the PPA packages which are well integrated with Ubuntu desktop.<\/p>\n<p>LibreOffice 6.0 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better compatibility with Microsoft Office documents<\/li>\n<li>Support for standards-compliant PDF forms within Writer<\/li>\n<li>Experimental Notebookbar and other user-interface improvements<\/li>\n<li>OpenPGP can now be used to sign ODF documents<\/li>\n<li>OOXML interoperability improvements<\/li>\n<li>Ability to save documents as ePub ebook files<\/li>\n<li>And many more other changes, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.documentfoundation.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/31\/libreoffice-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">see the announcement for details<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/libreoffice6.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/libreoffice6-450x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/libreoffice6-450x283.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/libreoffice6-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/libreoffice6-600x378.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/libreoffice6.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install LibreOffice 6.0 via PPA in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcuts, or by searching for &#8220;terminal&#8221; from application launcher. When it opens, do:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Run command to add the LibreOffice Fresh PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts, and read terminal output for PPA description and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then you&#8217;ll see the upgrade available in <b>Software Updater<\/b> after checking for updates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/upgrade-libreoffice6-450x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/upgrade-libreoffice6-450x333.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/upgrade-libreoffice6-600x444.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/upgrade-libreoffice6.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The LibreOffice upgrading process may be kept back. If so, run following commands instead in terminal after added the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get dist-upgrade<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dist-upgrade-600x81.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"81\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dist-upgrade-600x81.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dist-upgrade-450x60.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dist-upgrade.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>You can restore to stock version of LibreOffice in Ubuntu main archive by running command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice\/ppa<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LibreOffice office suite reached the 6.0 release more than a week ago. Now it&#8217;s finally made into LibreOffice Fresh PPA for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04. Though LibreOffice offers .deb binaries for downloading in its website, it&#8217;s recommended to install the PPA packages which are well integrated with Ubuntu desktop. LibreOffice 6.0 release highlights: [&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":[1009,209],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-libreoffice","tag-office"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","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=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}