You can also install specific versions newer than what Ubuntu provides by replacing the 1st command with. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa And there is also a personal archive for the really bleeding edge. LibreOffice provides a native Debian installer so you can use Software Center to install it. This is the result of the different licenses the projects chose.īasically: LibeOffice will always have more features than OpenOffice. LibreOffice can incorporate OpenOffice’s code, but OpenOffice can’t incorporate LibreOffice’s code. This is because the two different licenses only allow a one-way transfer of code. On the other hand, LibreOffice has some features - like font embedding - that don’t appear in OpenOffice.

The practical result is LibreOffice can take OpenOffice’s code and incorporate it into LibreOffice - the licenses are compatible. The Apache OpenOffice project uses the Apache License, while the LibreOffice uses a dual LGPLv3 / MPL license. OpenOffice’s sidebar code was copied and incorporated into LibreOffice. Software is provided by a DEB so you can download it and use our Software Center to install it by doubleclicking the finished download or you can pick the tar.gz download and it will have installation instructions inside the installer on how to install it (see the readme regarding installation inside the package).īut why go through this trouble? Since there is a licensing issue I would always opt for LibreOffice. You need to remove LibreOffice 1st and since there is no personal archive for Openoffice you need to download it from their website (pick 64-bit DEB).Security related fixes are provided when those are found and fixed.

Security wise it is better to stick with the versions Ubuntu supplies. Besides that: Ubuntu is not about using the latest version but the most stable version at the release of the OS.

OpenOffice has a license that is too restrictive for Ubuntu to be of use (see below). It basically is OpenOffice but with a license that is suited.

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