LibreOffice 3.4.0 available!

After a month of continuous development, the team released version 3.4.0 Final LibreOffice, the first release of the new branch and to comply with 3.4 and “early adopters”. They are an amazing amount of news and you know them all by going to this page where you will find many screenshots and descriptions associated with the new features implemented.
In particular, we emphasize a new style of the dialog box for the option Move/Copy, improved HTML export with a gallery of thumbnail images of slides on the contents page, the fonts that are tuned for use with a specific script such as Arabic, Hebrew, malamayam, etc. are now showing a preview of the additional sample text in the target script, the ability to add and remove chart colors from Tools -> Options -> Graphics -> Default colors and many more new features!
I recommend very strongly to consult this page for the details and the new features of each application in the suite of LibreOffice.
Let’s see how you can install LibreOffice 3.4.0 on Ubuntu. You have two methods to do this: by using PPP or deb packages. In order to avoid errors or problems with OpenOffice, in case it is installed on your system, delete it. To do this open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get remove --purge openoffice*
Installing via PPP
To install LibreOffice 3.4.0 on Ubuntu we can rely on the official repositories:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-l10n-it libreoffice-help-it
Currently, however, the PPAs are still stuck at version 3.3.2 and have to wait about a fortnight, perhaps to find updated:)
Installing packages by Deb
From the official website of LibreOffice you can download various formats for the installation of the suite on Linux and, among those present, you can also download the deb packages. Download and install LibreOffice, then the language pack Italian and finally help pack more in Italian!
Translated into commands, perform the following steps from the terminal but be sure to first remove the old version of LibreOffice on your system:
sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
Ubuntu i386 (32bit):
cd ~/Scrivania
wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.0/deb/x86/LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.0/deb/x86/LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86_langpack-deb_it.tar.gz
wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.0/deb/x86/LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_it.tar.gz
tar xzvf LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
tar xzvf LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86_langpack-deb_it.tar.gz
tar xzvf LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_it.tar.gz
cd LibO_3.4.0rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd ~/Scrivania
cd LibO_3.4.0rc2_Linux_x86_langpack-deb_it/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd ~/Scrivania
cd LibO_3.4.0rc2_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_it/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Ubuntu amd64 (64 bit):
cd ~/Scrivania
wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.0/deb/x86_64/LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.0/deb/x86_64/LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_langpack-deb_it.tar.gz
wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.0/deb/x86_64/LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_helppack-deb_it.tar.gz
tar xzvf LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
tar xzvf LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_langpack-deb_it.tar.gz
tar xzvf LibO_3.4.0_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_it.tar.gz
cd LibO_3.4.0rc2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd ~/Scrivania
cd LibO_3.4.0rc2_Linux_x86-64_langpack-deb_it/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd ~/Scrivania
cd LibO_3.4.0rc2_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_it/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
It ‘s all:)



