How to Install LibreOffice 5.4 via Official PPA in Ubuntu

The Libreoffice office suite reached the new major 5.4 release 3 days ago. Now it’s available in the official backports PPA for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Linux Mint 18.x, and their derivatives.

What’s new in LibreOffice 5.4:

• a new standard color palette
• improved file format compatibility
• importing PDFs now yield much better quality
• support for OpenPGP key signing of documents on Linux
• better performance of LibreOffice Online
• and many new improvements, see release note.

How to Install LibreOffice 5.4 in Ubuntu:

For all current Ubuntu releases and the next Ubuntu 17.10, the LibreOffice packaging team built the packages a few hours ago into the PPA.

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

Input your password (no visual feedback while typing due to security reason) and hit Enter.

2. Then simply launch Software Updater and upgrade the office suite by installing the updates:

Uninstall:

You can purge the PPA repository which also downgrade to the stock version of LibreOffice in your Ubuntu by running command:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa