33 Comments

1. farshad / January 6, 2012

   hello
   thank u for ur good job
   it is very useful
   u have my thanks

   Reply
2. Kshitij Mehta / January 11, 2012

   How do you keep your Libreoffice updated? Manually checking for new releases?

   Reply
   • JR / January 11, 2012

     Hi Kshitij Mehta,

     If you are not Fedora 16 user, then manually. LibreOffice doesn’t have (currently) built-in update system, like latest OpenOffice…

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   • Nux / April 28, 2012

     You can check manually for updates or you can use my repo ;-)

     http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/04/LibreOffice_org_RPMs_in_a_yum_friendly_format.html

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     • JR / April 28, 2012

       Thanks for this repo Nux! :)

       Reply
3. fudmier / January 14, 2012

   On centos 6.2 I cannot get libre office to install
   open office is complete uninstalled and I tried the above
   and then I tried yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror
   yum install yum-fastertmirror
   I checked /etc/yumpluginconf.d/fasterstmirror.conf to be shure it contained the
   following lines
   verbose=0
   socket_time = 3
   enabled =1
   hostfilepath = /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt
   maxhostfileage = 1

   the fastest host it selected was always my file:///media…
   so basically it was trying to use my cd to install from, but nothing
   on the cd. or in the drive.
   any ideas?
   .

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   • JR / January 14, 2012

     Hi fudmier,

     If you follow this guide, then I do not understand why you can’t install LibreOffice using RPM packages and rpm command (no yum at all)?

     Reply
4. Ami / February 6, 2012

   I’ve successfully installed various versions of OpenOffice on RHEL 5.7, but I wanted to try out LibreOffice 3.4.4/5 as well.

   I’ve repeatedly extracted, installed and removed the package downloaded from the LibreOffice website following the instructions both the website and you have provided.

   As a non-root user, I have always received the following errors and I have not been able to successfully connect to any java connector/environment/plugin:

   #libreoffice3.4
   /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/../basis-link/ure-link/bin/javaldx: /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /opt/libreoffice3.4/ure/bin/../lib/libjvmfwk.so.3)
   /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/soffice.bin: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9′ not found (required by /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/../basis-link/program/libbasegfxlx.so)

   BUT as root, I am able to do everything in LibreOffice that I can do in OpenOffice — connect to my data sources, spell check works, …

   Any words of wisdom??

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   • JR / February 7, 2012

     I updated this guide to latest version and I just tested 3.4.5 version on CentOS 5.7 and for me it’s working just normally (as normal user and root).

     So I recommend you to remove all LibreOffice packages and try install it again.

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5. Oliver / February 9, 2012

   Hi JR,

   thanks for the great work and the great page. like to sneak through your tipps and tricks.

   one little comment: seems you forgot to change the how to for the latest RC3 for installation (seems still to be the beta install instructions). Changes are:

   tar -xvf LibO_3.5.0*
   cd LibO_3.5.0*

   rpm -Uvh RPMS/*.rpm RPMS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.5-freedesktop-menus-3.5*.noarch.rpm

   OR

   rpm -Uvh RPMS/*.rpm
   rpm -Uvh RPMS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.5-freedesktop-menus-3.5*.noarch.rpm

   5. Start LibreOffice
   /opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice

   Hope that helps,

   Cheers
   Oliver

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   • JR / February 9, 2012

     Hi Oliver,

     Thank you very much, I forgot update 3.5.0 from Beta to RC. I actually test it, but forgot update this guide commands.

     I tested installation once again, updated guide and your commands are working perfectly! Thanks Oliver!

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6. Necolas / February 21, 2012

   Excellent tutorial thank you!
   Keep up the good work on Fedora as there are not as many good tutorials like this!

   Regards,

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7. Oliver / March 23, 2012

   Hi JR,

   just because i did it right now, i thought i could share it (hope that is ok for you):

   install of LibreOffice 3.5.1 (32 + 64bit (tested on RHEL 6.2)):

   *****
   32bit
   wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.5.1/rpm/x86/LibO_3.5.1_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

   64bit
   wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.5.1/rpm/x86_64/LibO_3.5.1_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

   tar -xvf LibO_3.5.1*
   cd LibO_3.5.1rc2*

   rpm -Uvh RPMS/*.rpm RPMS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.5-freedesktop-menus-3.5*.noarch.rpm

   OR

   rpm -Uvh RPMS/*.rpm
   rpm -Uvh RPMS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.5-freedesktop-menus-3.5*.noarch.rpm

   ******************************************

   Optional — install of Help Package

   32bit
   wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.5.1/rpm/x86/LibO_3.5.1_Linux_x86_helppack-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

   64bit
   wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.5.1/rpm/x86_64/LibO_3.5.1_Linux_x86-64_helppack-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

   tar -xvf LibO_3.5.1*helppack*
   cd LibO_3.5.1rc2*helppack*

   rpm -Uhv RPMS/*
   *****

   Cheers

   Oliver

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8. Oliver / March 23, 2012

   and also for 3.4.6 (rc2)

   *****
   32bit
   wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.6/rpm/x86/LibO_3.4.6_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

   64bit
   wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.6/rpm/x86_64/LibO_3.4.6_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

   tar -xvf LibO_3.4.6*install*
   cd LibO_3.4.6rc2*install*

   rpm -Uvh RPMS/*.rpm RPMS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.4-redhat-menus-3.4-6*.noarch.rpm

   OR

   rpm -Uvh RPMS/*.rpm
   rpm -Uvh RPMS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.4-redhat-menus-3.4-6*.noarch.rpm

   ******************************************

   Optional — install of Help Package

   32bit
   wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.6/rpm/x86/LibO_3.4.6_Linux_x86_helppack-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

   64bit
   wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.6/rpm/x86_64/LibO_3.4.6_Linux_x86-64_helppack-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

   tar -xvf LibO_3.4.6*helppack*
   cd LibO_3.4.6rc2*helppack*

   rpm -Uhv RPMS/*
   *****

   Oliver

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   • JR / March 23, 2012

     Hi Oliver and thank you! I will update this guide soon. :)

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9. Lavezarez / March 23, 2012

   Hi JR,

   First off, thanks for your site! It has helped me a lot since trying out Fedora…

   I had to also do this before installing Libreoffice –
   yum install libgnome

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   • JR / March 23, 2012

     Hi Lavezarez,

     Good point, thanks!

     Reply
10. Matthew / March 30, 2012

    hi ! nice post but i would have +1 this for google but i dont find the +1 button :( only facebook etc..

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    • Matthew / March 30, 2012

      ops i just found that :P

      Reply
11. Jonathan / April 12, 2012

    Thanks for this guide and for all of your other handy guides! If I install this version from Libreoffice will it replace my current version or install alongside?

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    • JR / April 12, 2012

      Hi Jonathan,

      You are welcome!

      It depends on version of LibreOffice that you have currently installed and how it is installed?

      Reply
12. Jonathan / April 12, 2012

    I have version 3.4.something and it’s installed through the normal Fedora 16 repos. I typed my name in properly this time…

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    • JR / April 12, 2012

      Hi again, I fix your name on earlier comments… :D

      I also update this guide, currently LibreOffice 3.5.2 is latest stable version and any development versions are not even available.

      And yes I just tested this and yes, you can install LibreOffice 3.5.2 alongside the Fedora 16 own LibreOffice 3.4.5 and both should work normally… :)

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13. Jonathan / April 12, 2012

    Works great, thanks again! Got both versions installed.

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    • JR / April 12, 2012

      Excellent! :)

      Reply
14. AreuR00t / April 13, 2012

    Thanks for the site mate. This site has helped me alot getting my Fedora box and my CentOS box functioning more productively

    I’m getting a failed dependencies error after I rpm -Uvh RPMS/*.rpm

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    • JR / April 13, 2012

      Hi AreuR00t,

      Could you post more info about failed dependencies error message?

      Reply
15. AreuR00t / April 13, 2012

    that would only make sense for me to post the dependencies error, duh. Sorry about that

    error: Failed dependencies:
    libgnomevfs-2.so.0()(64bit) is needed by libobasis3.5-gnome-integration-3.5.2-202.x86_64

    I did do a yum install libgnomevfs-2.so.0 and installed all of the 33 or 32 dependencies it wanted to install

    ran rpm -Uvh RPMS/*.rpm and got the same error

    I’m waiting for something else to finish installing before I try rebooting

    Thanks,

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16. AreuR00t / April 13, 2012

    rebooted, ran rmp -Uvh RPMS/*.rpm and got the same error again

    error: Failed dependencies:
    libgnomevfs-2.so.0()(64bit) is needed by libobasis3.5-gnome-integration-3.5.2-202.x86_64

    I’m running Fedora 16
    I am running from inside the LibO_3.2.1… folder

    Thanks for you help

    Regards,
    A

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    • JR / April 14, 2012

      Please run first following command (as root):

      updatedb

      And then post output of following commands:

      locate libgnomevfs-2.so.0
       
      rpm -qa gnome-vfs2\*
       
      uname -a

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      • AreUR00t / April 20, 2012

        [root@ ************* ~]# locate libgnomevfs-2.so.0
        /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
        /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0.2400.4
        [root@ ************* ~]# rpm -qa gnome-vfs2\*
        gnome-vfs2-2.24.4-6.fc16.i686
        [root@ ************* ~]# uname -a
        Linux ************* 3.3.1-3.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 4 18:08:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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        • JR / April 21, 2012

          You have something strange on your system…you have only 32-bit gnome-vfs2 installed on 64-bit system. Please try following:

          yum install gnome-vfs2.x86_64

          Then try installation again. :)

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17. vish / April 20, 2012

    Gr8 help

    Reply