{"id":9256,"date":"2019-08-14T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9256"},"modified":"2019-08-14T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T15:31:32","slug":"upgrade-office-suite-libreoffice-6-3-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/upgrade-office-suite-libreoffice-6-3-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Upgrade Default Office Suite to LibreOffice 6.3 in Ubuntu 18.04"},"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>Libreoffice, Ubuntu&#8217;s default office suite, released version 6.3 a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to upgrade it in Ubuntu 18.04 and\/or Ubuntu 19.04 via PPA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.documentfoundation.org\/ReleaseNotes\/6.3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LibreOffice 6.3<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New \u2018Tabbed Compact UI\u2019<\/li>\n<li>improved PDF export<\/li>\n<li>improved Microsfot office file formats support.<\/li>\n<li>Redact documents to remove\/hide sensitive information<\/li>\n<li>New \u2018Tip-Of-The-Day\u2019 dialog on startup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although LibreOffice offers the latest snap package (runs in sandbox) in Ubuntu Software utility, you can choose upgrade the pre-installed LibreOffice package using the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~libreoffice\/+archive\/ubuntu\/libreoffice-6-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcuts, or by searching for &#8220;terminal&#8221; from application launcher. When it opens, run command to add the LibreOffice PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk 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>Or run commands in terminal to install LibreOffice:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install libreoffice<\/pre>\n<p><i>For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, you can skip <code>sudo apt update<\/code> as it&#8217;s done while adding PPA.<\/i><\/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, Ubuntu&#8217;s default office suite, released version 6.3 a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to upgrade it in Ubuntu 18.04 and\/or Ubuntu 19.04 via PPA. LibreOffice 6.3 release highlights: New \u2018Tabbed Compact UI\u2019 improved PDF export improved Microsfot office file formats support. Redact documents to remove\/hide sensitive information New \u2018Tip-Of-The-Day\u2019 dialog on startup Although LibreOffice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1009],"class_list":["post-9256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-libreoffice"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256","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=9256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}