How to Install AbiWord on Raspberry Pi

AbiWord is a simple word processing application introduced by the AbiSource community that offers similar features to most used Microsoft Word application. It’s a lightweight tool that can be installed on different operating systems, including Windows, Linux, macOS and other Unix-like operating systems (BSD, Haiku, and AmigaOS). It provides different features, such as spell-check, grammar check, support for images and much more.

Refer to this article if you wish to install AbiWord on a Raspberry Pi system.

Installing AbiWord on a Raspberry Pi

The process of installing AbiWord on a Raspberry Pi system is simple as you can find it’s installation in the Raspberry Pi source repository. You must stick to the instructions provided below to complete the installation:

Step 1: Begin by updating the Raspberry Pi repository through the following update and upgrade command:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Step 2: Now execute the command below to install AbiWord from the Raspberry Pi source repository:

$ sudo apt install abiword

You must wait till the installation of AbiWord is finished on Raspberry Pi.

Run AbiWord on a Raspberry Pi.

AbiWord can be run on Raspberry Pi from two ways, which are:

Through the Terminal
Through GUI

Method 1: Run AbiWord Through the Terminal

You may use the following command to run AbiWord on Raspberry Pi through the terminal:

$ abiword

Method 2: Run AbiWord Through GUI

To run AbiWord from GUI, open the Raspberry Pi’s application menu, select “Office“, and then click the AbiWord option.

Now, you can begin using AbiWord on Raspberry Pi system.

Remove AbiWord from Raspberry Pi

In any case you don’t like using AbiWord on Raspberry Pi system, you can open the terminal and use the following command to delete the application from the system.

$ sudo apt remove abiword

Conclusion

AbiWord is a lightweight word processor for Raspberry Pi system, which can be installed through the ‘apt’ command. After the installation is completed, the users can open it from the terminal using “abiword” command or use the GUI option to open it from the “Office” section in the Application Menu.