Install Apache OpenOffice: cd into the en-US folder, then cd into the RPMS directory that’s inside it. The files will be unpacked into a folder named en-US (for US downloads), or en-YourLanguage, where YourLanguage is the 2-letter code for your language.Ĥ. You should see the gzipped tarball you just downloaded. Open a shell terminal, cd into the Downloads folder and type ls to list the files in the folder. By default, it should be saved in the Downloads folders. Download and unpack Apache OpenOffice: It is available from here. If you see a symlink from /usr/bin/soffice pointing to LibreOffice, remove it with: rm /usr/bin/soffice. You can check by typing ls -l /usr/bin | grep -i soffice. It should have been removed by the first command. Remove soffice: soffice is the traditional OpenOffice binary which has been symlinked to LibreOffice.

To do that, type, as root: yum remove libreoffice-core.Ģ. Uninstall LibreOffice: The first step is to uninstall LibreOffice. So with this post, I show how I replaced the latest edition of LibreOffice with the latest edition of Apache OpenOffice on my Fedora 20 KDE desktop.ġ. Luckily, we have Apache OpenOffice, from which LibreOffice was forked. But life doesn’t end there and I use it when I have to.īut when I tried to use the latest LibreOffice a couple of days ago to edit a document and found that editing a line of text has become a painful exercise, I could take it no mas. That was something I used to be able to do. That means selecting content with the left-mouse button and pasting with the middle button.

The few times that I’ve had to use it, not being able to copy and paste with the mouse always rubbed me the wrong way. For almost a year now, I’ve seldom had to use any component of LibreOffice, the default Office suite on virtually all desktop Linux distributions.

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