LibreOffice 4.1 was officially released on July 23, 2013. LibreOffice is an open source and simple but powerful office suite for Linux, Windows & Mac users.
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New Features in LibreOffice 4.1
From the official LibreOffice page new features include:
Rotate images in Writer in 90 degree increments, Send along your fonts with your documents. Writer, Calc and Impress now allow embedding fonts in their documents. It is now easy to include a series of photos in Impress with the “Photo Album” feature. Add a Stepped Lines line type to Line and XY (Scatter) graphs fdo#61135. Especially for migrations, LibreOffice adds a number of significant improvements of interoperability with MS Office formats. A very large number of bugs have been fixed at an estimate of around 3000 bugs, of which 400 came from authors with apache.org mail addresses.
Installing LibreOffice 4.1 on Debian based OS
For Debian-based Linux distros, such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Debian.
Don’t want to install manually? For Ubuntu users there is an option if you don’t want to be copying and pasting all these lines of commands into your terminal. You can add LibreOffice’s PPA to upgrade to the latest release (LibreOffice 4.1) by using Ubuntu’s Update Manager.
Follow the commands below to get the same thing done more easily:
Copy and paste the following commands into the terminal and Press Enter after each.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
To install manually, download 32 bit or 64 Bit package depending on your system’s OS type and follow the instructions here to install.
First Remove previous version of LibreOffice before installing new one using the command below:
$ sudo apt-get purge openoffice*
For 32 bit systems:
$ wget https://donate.libreoffice.org/home/dl/deb-x86/4.1.0/en-US/LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz $ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz $ cd LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
For 64 bit systems:
$ wget https://donate.libreoffice.org/home/dl/deb-x86_64/4.1.0/en-US/LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz $ tar -xzvf LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz $ cd LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
- Install LibreOffice in Fedora/CentOS/RHEL:
1- First you need to download the rpm package (32 bit or 64 Bit package)
For 32 bit OS:
# wget http://donate.libreoffice.org/home/dl/rpm-x86/4.1.0/en-US/LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
For 64 Bit OS:
# wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.1.0/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
2. Removing any previous version
# yum remove openoffice.org* libreoffice.org*
3.Extracting the downloaded packages
For 32-Bit OS:
# tar -xvf LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
For 64 Bit OS:
# tar -xvf LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
4. Installing LibreOffice 4.1
For 32 Bit OS:
# cd /LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86_rpm/RPMS/ # yum localinstall *.rpm # yum localinstall desktop-integration/libreoffice4.0-freedesktop-menus-4.1.0*.noarch.rpm
64 Bit Bit OS:
# cd /LibreOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS/ # yum localinstall *.rpm # yum localinstall desktop-integration/libreoffice4.0-freedesktop-menus-4.1.0*.noarch.rpm
Installation has been completed you can now launch LibreOffice 4.1.0.
And is done.
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