Saturday 1 February 2014

Install Libre Office 4.2


Links to download for Linux, Windows and  Mac
http://www.libreoffice.org/download

With the latest package are monochrome icons and the sidebar.

Installations I have completed are on deb(x86_64) on Ubuntu 12.04 & 12.10

Use the following commands as root to remove a current version of
Libre Office if there is one installed.

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoremove


Use the following commands as root to install Libre Office 4.2

Access  Downloads

cd Downloads

Extract tar.gz with -

tar -xf  LibreOffice_4.2.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

To view contents -

ls -a

Access  LibreOffice_4.2.0_Linux_x86-64

cd LibreOffice_4.2.0_Linux_x86-64

Access DEBS folder inside -

cd DEBS

Then install all packages inside -

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

New Dash



Writer with default icon theme




Add new icon themes and sidebar.


Tools - options - View to add new Sifr  monochrome icons




Tools - options - Advanced - enable experimental features.




Views - sidebar




Result

Calc with new icons and sidebar




Writer with sidebar