LibreOffice as AppImage

AppImage is a portable application format for Linux that allows users to run applications on rolling (e.g. Arch, openSUSE Tumbleweed) and stable (e.g. Ubuntu LTS, CentOS) Linux distributions very easily, without the need for installation or worry of dependencies. AppImages bundle all the files needed for an application to run (e.g. libraries, translations, icons, fonts) that may not already be present on a user’s system.

LibreOffice AppImage is a portable version of LibreOffice for Linux that can be run from any location (e.g. local drive, USB, CD, network share) on all popular Linux distributions, including their live CDs. LibreOffice AppImage is available in three versions - Basic, Standard, and Full - which support a different set of languages.

LibreOffice Fresh is the last LibreOffice major release, with the latest features, and is targeted to power users and technology enthusiasts. LibreOffice Still is the previous major release, without the latest features but with a few more months of bug fixing, and is targeted to all other users.

The Basic version includes support for the default language, English (US).

Download Fresh Basic

Download Still Basic

The Standard version includes support for English (US and GB), Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian and Portugal), Russian, and Spanish.

Download Fresh Standard

Download Still Standard

The Full version includes all languages supported by LibreOffice.

Download Fresh Full

Download Still Full

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Additional LibreOffice Appimages can be found browsing the LibreOffice AppImage repository.

Running the AppImage from the GUI

Open your file manager and browse to the location of the AppImage
Right-click on the AppImage and click the ‘Properties’ entry
Switch to the Permissions tab and
click the ‘Allow executing file as program’ checkbox if you are using a Nautilus-based file manager (Files, Nemo, Caja)
click the ‘Is executable’ checkbox if you are using Dolphin
click the ‘Allow this file to run as a program’ checkbox in Thunar
change the ‘Execute’ drop down list to ‘Anyone’ if you are using PCManFM
Close the dialog
Double-click on the AppImage file to run

Watch how.

Running the AppImage from the Terminal

Open your terminal application, if not already open
Browse to the location of the AppImage
Make the AppImage executable

    $ chmod a+x LibreOffice\*.AppImage

Run it

    $ ./LibreOffice\*.AppImage

Notes

LibreOffice AppImages repackage the same binary files found in the .tar.gz files that are distributed on the main download page, through a build script hosted on here.
LibreOffice AppImages will run on the distributions that will run an installed version of LibreOffice, but expect the user’s system to have some libraries that aren’t bundled with the AppImage, like Java (used in Base) and GStreamer (used in Impress).
LibreOffice AppImages were tested and run on these old versions of stable distributions and their newer versions - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Debian 6, Fedora 12, openSUSE 11.3, Mageia 2, PCLinuxOS 2013.07.15, Puppy 6, Salix 13.37 (Slackware), CentOS 6
LibreOffice AppImages were tested and run on these rolling distributions - Solus, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Antergos (Arch), Sabayon (Gentoo), Tails
LibreOffice AppImages uses their own user profile folder, so they won’t conflict with the user profile of an installed version of LibreOffice on your system.
LibreOffice AppImages are currently only available as 64-bit executables, so they will only run on 64-bit Linux distributions.
AppImages require FUSE to run. If your system does not have a working FUSE setup, you can still extract the contents of the AppImages using the --appimage-extract option.
AppImages aren’t sandboxed, so if you’ll like to run them that way, please read this guide to sandbox with firejail.