{"id":9320,"date":"2019-09-07T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9320"},"modified":"2019-09-07T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:22:31","slug":"install-libreoffice-6-3-1-ubuntu-18-04-19-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/install-libreoffice-6-3-1-ubuntu-18-04-19-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install LibreOffice 6.3.1 in Ubuntu 18.04\/19.04"},"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>Ubuntu&#8217;s default office suite LibreOffice released version 6.3.1 a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>LibreOffice 6.3 &#8220;Fresh&#8221; is a major new release that features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writer and Calc performance improvements.<\/li>\n<li>The Tabbed Compact NotebookBar UI now available for Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw<\/li>\n<li>Export as PDF improved with the support for the standard PDF\/A-2 document format,<\/li>\n<li>Export support for DOTX and XLTX, import of charts from DOCX, import\/export of SmartArt from PPTX files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.documentfoundation.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/05\/lo-6-3-1-and-lo-6-2-7-announced\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LibreOffice 6.3.1<\/a> is the first minor release of the LibreOffice 6.3 family, that brings a large list of bug-fixes and a key security improvement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/libreoffice631.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/libreoffice631-600x359.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/libreoffice631-600x359.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/libreoffice631-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/libreoffice631-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/libreoffice631.jpg 1005w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install LibreOffice 6.3.1 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-yellow\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-lightbulb-o'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">LibreOffice 6.3 \u201cfresh\u201d is targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users. For production environments and users who prefer robustness, use <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~libreoffice\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LibreOffice 6.2.x PPA<\/a> instead.<\/div><\/div>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either from application menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keboard. When it opens, 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>Type user password (no interisk feedback) when it prompts 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 launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> (Update Manager) and install updates for new LibreOffice packages:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/upgrade-libreoffice-ppa-450x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/upgrade-libreoffice-ppa-450x283.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/upgrade-libreoffice-ppa-600x378.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/upgrade-libreoffice-ppa.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or simply run commands in terminal after adding the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt install libreoffice<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the LibreOffice PPA only, run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:libreoffice\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the PPA as well as downgrade LibreOffice to the pre-installed version:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice\/ppa<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu&#8217;s default office suite LibreOffice released version 6.3.1 a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and their derivatives. LibreOffice 6.3 &#8220;Fresh&#8221; is a major new release that features: Writer and Calc performance improvements. The Tabbed Compact NotebookBar UI now available for Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw Export as [&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-9320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-libreoffice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320","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=9320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}