Preparation of installation of LibreOffice 4.0.0:

First of all download the newer version of LibreOffice 4.0.0 using wget command as follows.

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.0.0/rpm/x86/LibreOffice_4.0.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz

This tar file contains RPMs of LibreOffice 4.0.0 package. Extract this tar file to some location, I like /opt.

tar -xf Libreoffice_4.0.0_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz -C /opt

Uninstall Previous version of LibreOffice Package:

Previously existing installation of LibreOffice package must be removed before proceeding to installation of newer version. You can use yum erase command to remove old LibreOffice package.

yum erase libreoffice*

You can use any method to uninstall earlier LibreOffice package but it must be uninstalled first. Check my earlier post How to use yum for package management.

Installation of LibreOffice 4.0.0 RPMs:

To install the RPM, you can use yum command again.

cd /opt/LibreOffice_4.0.0.3_Linux_x86_rpm/RPMS/
yum localinstall *.rpm

It will install all LibreOffice RPMs from RPMS directory.

Finalizing the installation:

The above command(s) does the first part of the installation process. To complete the process, you also need to install the desktop integration packages. To do this, change directory to the desktop-integration directory that is within the RPMS directory, by entering the following command at the command line of a terminal window:

cd desktop-integration

Now run the installation command again:

yum localinstall libreoffice4.0-freedesktop-menus-4.0.0-103.noarch.rpm

The installation process is now completed, and you should have icons for all the LibreOffice.

Now you are ready to enjoy the power of opensource. Try this version, you will feel proud to be an Open Source user or supporter. Thanks a lot to Document Foundation for such a great product.

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