The latest releases of LibreOffice are available for Fedora 38/37/36/35/34/33/32 for download as RPM packages. LibreOffice is a free and open source, fully-featured office productivity suite. The native file format of LibreOffice is Open Document Format (ODF). In this guide, you will learn how to install the latest LibreOffice on Fedora.
LibreOffice has the following office suite features.
- Writer (word processor) – Writer is a feature-rich tool for creating letters, books, reports, newsletters, brochures, and other documents
- Calc (spreadsheet) – Calc has all of the advanced analysis, charting, and decision making features expected from a high-end spreadsheet
- Impress (presentations) – Impress provides all the common multimedia presentation tools, such as special effects, animation, and drawing tools
- Draw (vector graphics) – Draw is a vector drawing tool that can produce everything from simple diagrams or flowcharts to the 3D artwork.
- Base (database) – Base provides tools for day-to-day database work within a simple interface
- Math (formula editor) – Math is the LibreOffice formula or equation editor.
Step 1: Update Fedora
Let’s make sure we’re running latest packages on our Fedora system.
sudo dnf -y update
Step 2: Download LibreOffice on Fedora
The next phase is to download the latest release of LibreOffice from the downloads page.
Choose your operating system, package type and hit the download button. The package can be downloaded with wget or curl command.
sudo yum -y install wget
rm -rf LibreOffice*/
wget https://tdf.mirror.liquidtelecom.com/libreoffice/stable/7.5.3/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.5.3_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
Step 3: Install LibreOffice on Fedora
When download is done, extract RPM packages from the downloaded archive file.
tar xvf LibreOffice_*_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
We can now install all LibreOffice RPM packages using dnf command.
cd LibreOffice*/
cd RPMS/
sudo yum install *.rpm
Sample output:
.....
Transaction Summary
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Install 42 Packages
Total size: 258 M
Installed size: 626 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Installation will finish in few seconds.
Step 4: Launch LibreOffice on Fedora
We now have LibreOffice installed on Fedora. To launch it, use Gnome Activities search function.
Click desired application of LibreOffice from the list, e.g Draw, Write, Impress e.t.c.
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