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--- config:libreoffice [2020/08/14 00:47] – Wulf Rajek
+++ config:libreoffice [2023/05/29 11:55] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-====== LibreOffice installation ======
+====== LibreOffice ======
 ===== Remove official distro version =====
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 </code>
-===== PPA of the latest stable release (7.0RC3) =====
+===== PPA of the latest stable release (note RC2 = final release) =====
 <code>
 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
 sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install libreoffice
 </code>
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 </code>
-===== PPA of pre-release/beta releases =====
-<code>
+===== Latest stable from official website =====
-sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-prereleases
-sudo apt-get update
-</code>
-<code - /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libreoffice-prereleases-ppa-focal.list>
-deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-prereleases/ubuntu focal main
-deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-prereleases/ubuntu focal main
-</code>
-===== Manual install of latest version =====
-Linux Mint DE2 comes with LibreOffice v4.x and Linux Mint 18 comes with LibreOffice 5.x. Version 6.0 was released in January 2018. To install the latest version, a few simple steps need to be performed to uninstall the version from the repository and download and install the latest version.
 Official Download Page:\\
 https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?type=deb-x86_64&lang=en-GB
-<code>
-sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core uno-libs3 ure fonts-opensymbol
-#for major version upgrades, remove the previous libreoffice version, e.g.:
-#sudo apt-get remove libreoffice6.0*
-On Linux Mint 19.2:
-#sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-*
-</code>
-===== Latest stable from official website =====
 Bash shell script to install or update latest version:
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 #get installed binary version number
-if [ ! -f /usr/local/bin/libreoffice ]; then
+if [ `dpkg --get-selections | grep "libreoffice.*-base.*install"|grep -v deinstall | wc -l` -eq 0 ]; then
     current_lo_v="0"
 elif hash libreoffice 2>/dev/null; then
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 fi
 </code>
+===== Settings =====
+To disable automatic capitalisation of the first letter, especially in LibreOffice Calc:
+Tools > AutoCorrect Options... > Options > Capitalize first letter of every sentence