Using Flatpak to install LibreOffice on Fedora 24

EricMesa

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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:


sudo dnf install flatpak

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.

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

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:


flatpak install --bundle LibreOffice.flatpak

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?

flatpak run org.libreoffice.LibreOffice

Worked, though.

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

flatpak update --user org.libreoffice.LibreOffice</pre>

I do have to say that I’m disappointed it doesn’t appear in my alt-F2 menu.