How To: Install Libra office 3.5.0 in Ubuntu 11.10/12.04 Via PPA

Libra office is a great alternative for microsoft office. it is open source and free. Libra office 3.5.0 is out now and you can upgrade / download it in your ubuntu 11.10/12.04 machines. This time there are some major features you must like, Let’s take a look
LibreOffice 3.5 highlights:

• new faster built-in grammar checker for English and several other languages
• better header/footer/page break UI handling
• new multi-line input bar in Calc
• import filter for Microsot Visio documents
• enhanced custom shapes import
• built-in update checker
• improved font hinting
• better performances when importing files from other office suites
• bug fixes
  And Many More
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Add the PPA and Upgrade to Libra Office 3.5.0

To add the PPA and Upgrade to Libra Office 3.5.0, Just copy/paste the following command in your terminal window

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa 

 sudo apt-get update 

 sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If you are using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx with OpenOffice and want to replace it with LibreOffice 3.5

Copy/paste the following commands into your terminal windows.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa 

 sudo apt-get purge openoffice* 

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

 You can also install Libra Office 3.5.0 manually. For that you need to download the .Deb file. Before installing it manually you need to remove Libra Office.
Execute the Following commands in to your terminal window

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core

 That’s all for now hope you enjoyed the article.