After someone told me that a PDF I’d created in Calligra Office was illegible and having issues with spreadsheets loading slowly, I decided to install LibreOffice. However, rather than go with the version in the repos, I decided to go with Flatpak – which allows for a more advanced version via the usage of runtimes. First, I had to install Flatpak:

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sudo dnf install flatpak

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Then I needed to install the runtimes. The LibreOffice page uses the –user tag, but I think that is just for installing it just to yourself rather than for the whole system. So I am omitting that.

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wget https://sdk.gnome.org/keys/gnome-sdk.gpg
flatpak remote-add –gpg-import=gnome-sdk.gpg gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/repo/
flatpak install gnome org.gnome.Platform 3.20
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That took a bit and said things like “Writing Objects” on the terminal. Eventually that was done. Then it was time for LibreOffice. I grabbed the file from the website, then:

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flatpak install –bundle LibreOffice.flatpak

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After doing that I did an alt-F2 to see if it could launch like a regularly installed application. It did not show up. Perhaps Flatpak only works well with Gnome for now?

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flatpak run org.libreoffice.LibreOffice
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Worked, though.

In the future if I want to update it, I need to run:

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flatpak update –user org.libreoffice.LibreOffice</pre>
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I do have to say that I’m disappointed it doesn’t appear in my alt-F2 menu.