It’s been a while since we posted about LibreOffice’s development (beta release). Since then, LibreOffice has gone through rigorous development and now here we have the first stable release of LibreOffice with a lot of updates and bug-fixes. LibO as we know it now has the PPA so its easy for us to download it and keep it up-to-date. The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.3.0 Final, all set for production machines. This release is fully stable and ready to use.

Download

LibreOffice 3.3.0 – Direct link

• Download x32 .deb (Download Torrent)
• Download x64 .deb (Downlaod Torrent)

Installation

PPA Method :-> Installing Libreoffice is now really easy because PPA is here. Just type in these lines in the terminal :-

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.* openoffice*.* && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-gnome

For KDE  >_

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde

Note:- If you choose PPA method for installing LibO 3.3, then there is no need to download anything at all.

.deb Method :-> Simply download the files and extract it from the archive and install i like the old times

cd $home/Downloads
tar xvzf LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
cd LibO_3.3.0rc4_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

New Features & Updates

• 1 million rows in a spreadsheet in Calc
• Improved slide layout handling in Impress
• Useful bundled extensions, such as the Presenter View in Impress
• Lotus Word Pro import filter
• Import SVG pictures into Draw and edit them interactively
• New easy-to-use dialog box for title pages
• Navigator lets you unfold one heading as usual in a tree view
• “Easy-to-find “new sheet” tab button
• MS Works import filter and more…

For details, see this page.

Preview

Here are a few screenshots of LibO 3.3 in Ubuntu 10.10, take a look :

Any queries regarding LibreOffice or any other regarding Ubuntu can be asked here.

Njoy LibreOffice!

OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is an open source software application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years’ software engineering. Started as a single piece of software, it has a constantly evolved. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. As a result, OpenOffice does everything you want, the way you want it to. And all this for Free.

Download OpenOffice.org 3.2:

The Open Office Suite in Ubuntu is just the perfect blend you need for all your Office needs.As Wiki says OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo), commonly known simply as OpenOffice, is an office application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It is written using the GTK and supports plugins like Firefox which provides it additional functionality.

Comparing with MS-Office or WordPerfect,this pack just fulfils all the needs of a Rookie like me  that too for free.Now that’s something really satisfying since I don’t have to payout a hefty amount just for my small needs.Though online options too are available but they haven’t developed that much yet.

OOo has been divided into 6 components few of which are available by default in Ubuntu

Those six components are

• Writer (Available By Default)
• Calc (Available By Default)
• Impress (Available By Default)
• Base
• Draw (Available By Default)
• Math (Available By Default)

Note : To install rest components you may use Applications >Add & Remove and search for “OpenOffice”

To Access OOo go to Applications>Office and select the desired component.We’ll take  here the 3 basic components of it which are used most

Now lets take a quick look at these 3 components

OOo WRITER aka OOo Word Processor

Writer does all the basic stuff of word processing and is similar to MS Word and is can save files in PDF format (not available in earlier versions of MS Office).It can also save documents in multiple formats including DOC, ODF and many more.

OOo Calc aka OOo Spreadsheet

Calc is similar to MS Excel & is rather better than it in many fields. It provides a number of features not present in Excel, including a system which automatically defines series for graphing, based on the layout of the user’s data . Also it has functionality to have customised plugins according to your needs which can be downloaded from OpenOffice.Org Site.

OOo Impress aka OOo Presentation

Impress similar to Apple Keynote or MS PowerPoint and  is used for presentations.Its supports plugins like rest its counterparts and also allows exporting the files to swf format(Adobe Flash) that is generally present in our browsers these days .It also has presentation wizard that guides you through the presentation customization on go.