With the purchase of Sun by Oracle, all the free software projects associated with Sun were dying. Everything Oracle touches sooner or later ends up dying. As far as Open Office is concerned, the community has decided to "open up" to Oracle and create its own project, totally independent from Oracle: LibreOffice. This project has accumulated the financial unconditionally important actors in the development of free software, such as the Free Software Foundation and Canonical, among many others. Indeed, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has officially announced that future versions of Ubuntu will adopt LibreOffice.
Remove Open Office
In Ubuntu, I opened a terminal and wrote:
sudo apt-get remove --purge openoffice *. *
Installation on Ubuntu / Debian / Mint
1.- Download the file with all the DEB packages.
2. Unzip it and go to the en-US/DEBSm folder where the .deb files are located. Finally, run:
sudo dpkg -i * .deb
This command will install all DEBs in that directory.
3. To add LibreOffice to the Ubuntu menu, simply go to the "desktop-integration" folder and run the previous command again. If there are no problems, you should now be able to see the LibreOffice shortcuts from the System > Office menu.
Installation on Fedora / OpenSuse
1. Download the package from this page.
2. Unzip the package into your personal folder.
3. I opened a terminal and typed:
cd / en-us / RPMS / sudo rpm -ivh * .rpm cd / en-us / RPMS / desktop-integration / sudo rpm -ivh RPM_FILE_NAME
Don't forget to replace RPM_FILE_NAME with the name of the RPM file to install.
Installation on ArchLinux
LibreOffice is in the AUR repository
yaourt -S libreoffice
Sources: Ubuntu Life & Ubuntu Geek & Soft-Libre & Gilabeni