Ubuntu – How to install LibreOffice 5.0 in Ubuntu?

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Libreoffice 5.0 was just released.

tried

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-5.0

But

cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~libreoffice/ubuntu/libreoffice-5-0'.
The team named '~libreoffice' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/libreoffice-5-0'

Edit: You can add Libreofiice 5.0 using

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:libreoffice/ppa

Simply use the official PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Option 1 : You don't have libreoffice yet :

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

Or install using Ubuntu Software center :

Option 2 : You already have an old version of LibreOffice (4.x) :

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run:

sudo apt-get upgrade

I followed a thread on Ubuntu forums to solve this problem. There seems to be a line missing from this maintenance script file:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/libreoffice-base.postrm

The missing line,

/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/basic/script.xlc

needs to be added to the end of the file's second if statement, just above the closing fi, like so:

--divert /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/basic/script.xlc.noaccess \
/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/basic/script.xlc
fi

After adding the line, using (for example):

sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/info/libreoffice-base.postrm

restart your computer and remove libreoffice-base with the following command:

sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-base libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice

Once this process completes, restart and execute the following to reinstall libreoffice:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-base libreoffice

Once libreoffice had been successfully reinstalled, I ran:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

without error.

This handful of steps and with additional reference to a bug report solved my problem.

Just type unity in the terminal which will restart the UI and add the menu to the LibreOffice components.