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LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute.

Note:- This is still in Release Candidate 2 so this might break your system completely

Remove Openoffice

Before installing LibreOffice you need to remove existing openoffice from your system using the following command

sudo apt-get purge openoffice*.*

Note:- Thanks to our reader for the above command

Install libreoffice in ubuntu 11.04/10.10/10.04 using PPA

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

For gnome users - you also need to install the following package

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

For kubuntu users - you also need to install the following package

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde

Once you complete the installation open from Applications--->Office

sudo apt-get purge openoffice*.*

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde