New Features and Improvements
Some of the new features and under-the-hood fixes contained in this release of LibreOffice include:
Improvements to menu and sidebar Better management of screen space Cleaner user interface and new icons Enterprise-ready Calc with new functions, complex formulae, image cropping, table addressing. better conditional formatting and more Better HiDPI support Time-stamping of PDF documents generated with LibreOffice Better filters for dcouments Better integration of Microsoft Office and Apple iWork documents Over 25,000 bug fixes
For more information: see the official release announcement.
Requirements
Before you attempt this installation, please make sure your system passes the following requirements:
At least 1.55GB hard disk space available Linux Kernel 2.6.18 or higher 256MB of RAM (recommended minimum should be 512MB) glibc2 2.10 or higher gtk 2.10 or higher
Also, if you have an older version of libreoffice, you need to uninstall it before installing this lastest version. Just run the following command to do so:
Installation
Here’s how to install LibreOffice 5.0 in Debian, Ubuntu 15.04/14.04/12.04 and derivatives (e.g. Elementary OS Freya/Luna, Linux Mint). For 32-bit systems Download the packages. Extract the packages. Change directory to the newly created LibreOffice folder. Installing the packages: run the following command from the LibreOffice directory: For 64-bit systems Download the packages. Extract the packages. tar -xvf LibreOffice_5.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz Change directory to the newly created LibreOffice folder. Installing the packages: run the following command from the LibreOffice directory:
Install LibreOffice 5.0 Via PPA
You can also install LibreOffice 5.0 via PPA if you prefer. Just run the following commands: Once installation is complete, you should be able to find the new icons in your applications menu. Alternatively, you can launch LibreOffice 5.0 from the terminal with the following command:
Conclusion
Most distro are pretty fast in updating the software in their repositories to the latest version. However, if you are not patient enough to wait for your Linux distro update, the above instructions should help you to install LibreOffice 5 in your Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distro.
