{"id":8150,"date":"2018-09-14T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T08:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8150"},"modified":"2018-09-14T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T13:36:44","slug":"libreoffice-6-1-available-ubuntu-18-04-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/libreoffice-6-1-available-ubuntu-18-04-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"LibreOffice 6.1 Available to Install in Ubuntu 18.04 via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/libreoffice-logo245.png\" alt=\"LibreOffice \" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who prefer upgrading LibreOffice office suite from PPA, LibreOffice 6.1 now is finally available to install in Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 18.10 via <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~libreoffice\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">its official PPA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>LibreOffice 6.1 is new major version released more than a month ago with following new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the elementary icon set by default GNOME-based Linux distros<\/li>\n<li>New app icons that you can see in the application launcher.<\/li>\n<li>Reworked image handling using a new graphic manager<\/li>\n<li>The notebook bar is significantly improved in LibreOffice 6.1<\/li>\n<li>Use native GTK3 dialogs on Linux desktops. <\/li>\n<li>Improvements to Excel 2003 XML import<\/li>\n<li>DOCX export\/import<\/li>\n<li>And many other new featurese and improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_8152\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8152\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/libreoffice-newappicons-600x209.jpg\" alt=\"libreoffice new app icons\" width=\"600\" height=\"209\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/libreoffice-newappicons-600x209.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/libreoffice-newappicons-450x157.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/libreoffice-newappicons.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">libreoffice new app icons<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>How to Install LibreOffice 6.1 in Ubuntu 18.04 via PPA:<\/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 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\/2018\/09\/libreoffice-ppa-bionic-600x81.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"81\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/libreoffice-ppa-bionic-600x81.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/libreoffice-ppa-bionic-450x60.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/libreoffice-ppa-bionic.jpg 745w\" 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 dist-upgrade<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dist-upgrade-bionic-600x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"84\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dist-upgrade-bionic-600x84.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dist-upgrade-bionic-450x63.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dist-upgrade-bionic.jpg 746w\" 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>For those who prefer upgrading LibreOffice office suite from PPA, LibreOffice 6.1 now is finally available to install in Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 18.10 via its official PPA LibreOffice 6.1 is new major version released more than a month ago with following new features: Use the elementary icon set by default GNOME-based Linux distros New [&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],"class_list":["post-8150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-libreoffice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150","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=8150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}