How to install the latest version of the free LibreOffice office suite on Linux

Soon, users of RHEL-based Linux distributions (such as Fedora, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux) will find an important piece of software missing from the official repositories…the LibreOffice office suite.

There's no need to panic, as this is not an end-of-the-world scenario (far from it). Not only is this not cataclysmic, but there will also always be the means to install LibreOffice on your favorite RHEL-based operating system. On top of that, there are other office suites you can install (such as WPS Office and Softmaker Office).

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However, if LibreOffice is your tool of choice, you don't have to worry that it'll no longer be available to your chosen desktop (or server) operating system.

I'm going to show you how easy it is to install the latest version of LibreOffice on your desktop. The only caveat to this method is you don't get automatic updates and have to go through the process any time you want to upgrade to the latest version. Even so, that is only a matter of repeating the steps with the latest download.

With that said, let's get to the steps.

How to install the latest version of LibreOffice on Fedora Linux

What you'll need: You'll only need three things for this – a running instance of an RHEL-based distribution (I'll demonstrate with Fedora 38), a user with sudo privileges, and an internet connection. That's it. Let's get to work.

Once the command completes, you can close the terminal and delete both the downloaded .tar.gz file and the LibreOffice folder in Downloads. Search for the software in your desktop menu and you should see LibreOffice 7.5 listed.

Installing on Ubuntu

If you use a Ubuntu-based distribution, the process is the same with only two minor differences. First, you must download the DEB version of LibreOffice. The second difference is, once you've extracted the contents of the downloaded file, the installation command for a Ubuntu-based distribution will be:

And that's all there is to installing the latest version of LibreOffice on either an RHEL- or Ubuntu-based Linux distribution. Once Fedora no longer ships with LibreOffice, you'll be able to easily install the software, so you don't miss out on creating/editing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.

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