Hooray for Libre Office 3.3!

Take a look at the impressive list of new features of the LibreOffice, the opensource and still free fork of the OpenOffice package or OO. OO is now under the control of the new owner of Sun Microsystems and software products and we are glad the fork will develop into a more open and inviting office productivity software.

The impressive list of features and fixes (to the last OO version) is available in
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/

We are still downloading the software as we write this. Should be able to add more to this blog post.


Update: You dont have to download manually any deb packages if you are using the latest Ubuntu! I wasted time for the downloading and manual install via dpkg -i install command.
Instead the reader should consult https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice. LibreOffice is part of the latest Ubuntu OS! The first step is to add the package repository so we would be able to get any latest updates.

Here are the steps:

1. Install the repository for libreoffice.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
2. Next perform an update.
sudo apt-get update
3. Then do the package install
sudo apt-get install libreoffice At this point however libreoffice is not available from the Applications menu! You still have to install the GNOME interface package.
4. sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome