Want to easily try out the latest development builds of OpenOffice-fork LibreOffice?
Well now you can thanks to a dedicated LibreOffice packaging PPA for Ubuntu users.
Bye bye .deb downloading
Up until now users have had to install via oh-so-not-so-painful task of downloading a bunch of .debs files. The manual approach to installing updates has meant many users are running older version, unaware of subsequent releases.
Adding a PPA ensures you are notified of pending updates whilst offering the ability to upgrade easily.
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The PPA provides packages for Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 users. Whilst LibreOffice has yet to make a stable release it is currently at release candidate stage.
To add the PPA and install LibreOffice RC2 run the command below in a new Terminal session: -
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libreoffice
Now to make it look, well, nice under your desktop enviroment.
Ubuntu users should also run
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome
Kubuntu users: -
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde
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