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The Document Foundation just released the new stable version of LibreOffice, with interesting improvements in all components of the office suite. |
New Arrivals
Writer (Word processor)
- New spell checker in English and other languages
- Improved fonts for professional documents
- Real-time word counter
- New interface for headers, footers and page breaks
Impress / Draw (Presentations / Drawing)
- Improved import of Smart Art design elements from PowerPoint
- New feature to embed multimedia elements and color palettes in ODF documents
- New view for the slideshow console
- Improved diagrams
- Import filter from Microsoft Visio
Calc (Spreadsheet)
- Support for more than 10.000 sheets
- New data entry area with multiple lines
- New functions based on OpenFormula specifications
- Better performance in file import processes from other office suites
- Multiple selections in the automatic filters
- Unlimited number of rules
Base (Database)
- New native driver for PostgreSQL
Installation
Remove the previous version of LibreOffice:
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core
I extracted the package you downloaded and navigate through the terminal to the DEBS folder.
Once there:
sudo dpkg -i * .deb
Then navigate again through the terminal to the folder called "desktop-integration" located inside the DEBS folder.
Once there:
sudo dpkg -i * .deb
If you want to reuse the version found in the official Ubuntu repositories, enter the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice3.5 * libobasis * sudo apt-get install libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-emailmerge libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice -impress libreoffice-math libreoffice-ogltrans libreoffice-style-human libreoffice-writer