Install LibreOffice 4.4.3 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Install LibreOffice 4.4.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA 

 

LibreOffice is an open source productivity suite that provides all the necessary office components for small-business, educational and non-profit organizations. It is a fork of the well-known OpenOffice.org application.

LibreOffice 4.4.3 changelog

Filters

• Improved OOXML support
• Improved Visio support
• Improved Table of Contents in HTML export
• Document thumbnails
• Improved MS Publisher support
• Improved Abiword support
• Improved MS Works Spreadsheet support
• Improved FictionBook support

Localization

• New languages/locales with locale data
• Improved language tools (spell-check dictionaries, thesaurus, hyphenation patterns)

API changes

• OSL macro clean-up
• IReference and ReferenceObject
• UNO API changes
• UNO API removals

GUI

• Dialogs conversion to WidgetLayout finished
• Sifr as the default icon theme on OS X
• Changes to rulers
• Start Center
• New default templates
• New color selector
• Reworked paragraph line spacing dropdown
• Bullet and Numbering dropdown
• Sidebar changes
• Context menu changes
• Edit / Read-only mode
• Tab changes
• Firefox Themes
• Image scaling
• Simplification of Special Character dialog
• Icon improvements
• Locale in About dialog
• UI text improvements

Writer

• Master Document Templates
• Shapes can have a TextBox
• Improvements to Track Changes
• Style dropdown
• Line numbering easier to apply for headers and footers
• Status bar improvements
• Toolbar improvements
• Navigator bookmarks
• AutoCorrect improvements

Calc

• Statistics Wizard (alternative to Excel’s Add-in “Analysis ToolPak”)
• Direct conversion of formulas into static values
• Formula engine
• Toolbar improvements
• Sheet context menu

Impress and Draw

• Text of Master View Object Previews
• Select and toggle off master elements directly via Delete
• OpenGL transitions
• Page Title field
• Inherit current style of cells when inserting New row/column in table
• Password for editing
• Printing: use specified paper size
• Zoom Mode button
• Toolbar improvements
• Menubar improvements

See changelog for full details.

Install LibreOffice 4.4.3 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA :

To install LibreOffice 4.4.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.