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How to Install LibreOffice 5.0 on Ubuntu 15.04, 14.04 LTS, and 12.04 LTS

A step-by-step tutorial with detailed instructions

Aug 7, 2015 04:13 GMT  ·  By
LibreOffice 5.0 in Ubuntu 15.04
   LibreOffice 5.0 in Ubuntu 15.04

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users how to install the new LibreOffice 5.0 open-source office suite on their distributions, replacing the current 4.4 version.

We reported on the release of the LibreOffice 5.0 software a couple of days ago, which brings a great number of new features that were listed at a glance in the official release notes.

However, LibreOffice 5.0 will probably never land in the official software repositories of the currently supported Ubuntu releases, so we wanted to write an easy-to-follow tutorial for our Ubuntu users who want to upgrade their default office suite software.

There are two methods of installing LibreOffice 5.0 in Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin). No matter which method you decide to use, you will have to first remove the current LibreOffice installation from your operating system, so run the following command in a terminal.

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sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*

Method 1 of installing LibreOffice 5.0 in Ubuntu

No matter what Ubuntu operating system you're running (see the supported OSes above), open the Terminal app and run the following commands to download the latest LibreOffice 5.0 office suite from the official LibreOffice website. The instructions are for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

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For 64-bit Ubuntu systems:

          wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/5.0.0/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_5.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
         tar xvf LibreOffice_5.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
         sudo dpkg -i DEBS/*.deb

For 32-bit Ubuntu systems:

         wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/5.0.0/deb/x86/LibreOffice_5.0.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz
         tar xvf LibreOffice_5.0.0_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz
         sudo dpkg -i DEBS/*.deb

Method 2 of installing LibreOffice 5.0 in Ubuntu

The second method of installing LibreOffice 5.0 in a supported Ubuntu Linux distribution involves adding the official LibreOffice PPA from The Document Foundation, and then installing the latest version of the software from there. To do that, open the Terminal app and run the following commands:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
That's it! Your LibreOffice office suite has been upgraded to version 5.0. Using the second method, in time, you will receive automatic updates to newer releases of the software, as they are published by The Document Foundation, so make sure you keep your Ubuntu OS up to date at all times.