How to Install LibreOffice 4.0.0 on CentOS 6/RHEL 6.3

linuxexplore — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:05:45 +0000

LibreOffice 4 is launched and I was very exited to install it on my CentOS 6. It was really a good experience to install and use it. I am very happy to see that its performance is enhanced a lot. Documents are opening very fast than the earlier versions. I would like to share its installation procedure here for CentOS 6.

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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Look what Stella brought to CentOS 6.3, Desktop OS based on Centos

linuxexplore — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:40:54 +0000

There is a new Linux distribution released almost every week, sometimes, even every day. The latest is one called Stella, and the first version is Stella 6.3. Stella is a desktop-focused remix of CentOS, and Stella 6.3 is based on CentOS 6.3.

If you are familiar with CentOS, you know that out of the box, it is not really designed as a desktop distribution. Stella changes all that, as it is primarily aimed at desktop users, while retaining the core enterprise features and capabilities of CentOS.

And you can see that just by looking at the package manager. The package categories tell you that everything you can find in CentOS is also available in Stella. Plus desktop applications that you will not find in any default installation of CentOS. For example, an application listed in the screen shot below, is ROSA Media Player (ROMP), the default media player in ROSA Desktop, a distribution based on Mandriva Linux.

Because it is loaded with desktop applications and media codecs not available in CentOS, you can play most audio and video file formats out of the box. Here it shows a favorite online video playing in Firefox.

The next few screen shots show what the desktop looks like and some of the applications accessible from the menu. This one shows installed Internet applications.

Installed Office applications.

Installed multimedia applications.

Updates manager.

Read full story.