Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

[ubuntuku]

LibreOffice 3.4 New Features and Fixes

I hate waiting , so here we go:

1. Remove current libreoffice

sudo apt-get purge libreoffice*

2. Download libreoffice 3.4

cd ~/Downloads
#32bit
wget [url]http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.0/deb/x86/LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz[/url]
#64bit
wget [url]http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.0/deb/x86_64/LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz[/url]

3. Extract & Install

tar xzf LibO*.tar.gz
cd LibO*/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

If you're using oxygen-gtk style, you'll get gnome-ish appearance instead of oxygen.

[img width=400 height=284]http://i.imgur.com/3WU35.jpg[/img]

You can easily fix this by removing libstdc++.so & libcairo.so installed by libreoffice.

ubuntuku@satellite:~$ sudo updatedb
ubuntuku@satellite:~$ locate libstdc++.so | grep libreoffice
/opt/libreoffice3.4/ure/lib/libstdc++.so.6
ubuntuku@satellite:~$ sudo mv /opt/libreoffice3.4/ure/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /opt/libreoffice3.4/ure/lib/libstdc++.so.6.bak
ubuntuku@satellite:~$ locate libcairo.so | grep libreoffice
/opt/libreoffice3.4/basis3.4/program/libcairo.so.2
ubuntuku@satellite:~$ sudo mv /opt/libreoffice3.4/basis3.4/program/libcairo.so.2 /opt/libreoffice3.4/basis3.4/program/libcairo.so.2.bak

[img width=400 height=284]http://i.imgur.com/E8tye.jpg[/img]

[dtr]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

Hey, thanks a bunch. I hated the way Libreoffice looked when I installed it the other day. Now it's all good! Too bad the people over at Libreoffice couldn't make it integrate better with KDE.

Thanks

[Gamerx]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

I am sure that will come., if we wait they will integrate it!

[NoWorries]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

Well they have now released Libreoffice 3.4.2 and still there is no KDE integration . I ended up using the steps by ubuntuku to get menus and text acceptable. Thanks very much from one who has to prepare presentations in a M$ world.

[The Liquidator]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

Don't know what's happened to the ppa - it now is way, way behind.

Downloaded 3.4.2 last night and followed ubuntuku's instructions above and it looks very nice. Many thanks!

[claydoh]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

Well they have now released Libreoffice 3.4.2 and still there is no KDE integration . I ended up using the steps by ubuntuku to get menus and text acceptable. Thanks very much from one who has to prepare presentations in a M$ world.

I think that the kde integration happens outside of LO, as in it is done by the distros themselves, or they fix/patch whatever LO releases in this area. I don't care either way what the gui looks like, but the filepicker is atrocious to me, the KDE one is much better to use.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

Im still using OpenOffice

[SteveRiley]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

Im still using OpenOffice

What's holding you back?

[oshunluvr]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

Libre office - when I installed 11.04 initially - didn't look as good, didn't work as well (and there one other problem I can't recall at the moment) as OpenOffice at the time so I dumped it and installed the real deal.

I really can't see a reason to change at this point and I'm a little miffed that someone decided it would be "cute" to use the openoffice name to install libreoffice from the repos. I don't like deception...

[SteveRiley]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

Check out the Wikipedia pages on OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and The Document Foundation. Alas, the politics brewing in the open-source office suite community seem to be fracturing what could have been a credible alternative to the world's current de-facto standard...

[NoWorries]

Re: Kubuntu Natty: How to Install Latest LibreOffice (3.4.0) Final

Well they have now released Libreoffice 3.4.2 and still there is no KDE integration . I ended up using the steps by ubuntuku to get menus and text acceptable. Thanks very much from one who has to prepare presentations in a M$ world.

I think that the kde integration happens outside of LO, as in it is done by the distros themselves, or they fix/patch whatever LO releases in this area. I don't care either way what the gui looks like, but the filepicker is atrocious to me, the KDE one is much better to use.

I agree that the file open is atrocious. However I hardly ever use it, since I am sent .doc, .docx and ppt files which are opened by Libreoffice 3.4.2 without any problem. I have also found that all the ppt files that I have are now opened successfully by 3.4.2. That is, text, animations and equations are at last correctly executed positioned . I would rather have all this working properly than worry about the file open menu. I normally use Dophin to open files.