How to install LibreOffice – Free Office Suite on Raspberry Pi

LibreOffice is an open-source office suite that contains all the office suite applications that are used for personal as well as business purposes of making documents and presentations. Just like Microsoft office, it is a very much popular office suite that helps you to enhance your productivity with the use of its creative tools. You can also use different extensions to add different templates for making presentations or different formats of documents.

LibreOffice can be installed on iOS, Android, and Linux distributions, but in this write-up, we are only concerned with the installation of LibreOffice on Raspberry Pi, which is a Debian-based Linux distribution.

How to Install LibreOffice on Raspberry Pi from the default repository

We will first update the repository of Raspberry Pi:

From the above command, we can see that some packages have to be upgraded so we will upgrade them using the command:

To confirm the availability of LibreOffice, we will use the command:

To install the LibreOffice on Raspberry Pi is by using the package from its default repository with the apt package manager:

To launch the LibreOffice on Raspberry Pi, use the command:

To uninstall the LibreOffice with all its configuration file:

Conclusion

LibreOffice is the complete office suite that contains all the applications that are required for personal and business use for making documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and editing databases. In this guide, we have installed LibreOffice on Raspberry Pi OS to use it for daily routine purposes, either for making documents or modifying databases.