How To Install libreoffice-base-core on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-base-core on Ubuntu 20.04. libreoffice-base-core is office productivity suite – shared library office productivity suite – shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-base-core on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `libreoffice-base-core`

libreoffice-base-core is:

LibreOffice is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office.

This package contains common libraries of LibreOffice Base used by Base, Writer and Calc.

If you need full Base functionality (or actual database drivers), please install libreoffice-base (and/or libreoffice-base-drivers and/o libreoffice-sdbc-*). Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: libreoffice-base-core Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:6.4.2-0ubuntu3 Priority: optional Section: editors Source: libreoffice Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian LibreOffice Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 3104 Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:6.4.2-0ubuntu3) | libreoffice-core-nogui (= 1:6.4.2-0ubuntu3), libboost-date-time1.71.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libuno-cppu3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha), libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha), libuno-sal3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha), libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 (>= 1.4.0), uno-libs-private, ure Suggests: libreoffice-base Replaces: libreoffice-base-drivers (« 1:6.1.1~rc1-2) Filename: pool/main/libr/libreoffice/libreoffice-base-core_6.4.2-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 769216 MD5sum: 340ccc65d6dc1d47c7a33807afc62515 SHA1: 653f5cbd94fa54d10828e9ec10317d18dd7be0fc SHA256: 3d9da7bd63e9606828622a6813e0927e24764fe8516c47bb0a96b5d2fc9be052 Homepage: http://www.libreoffice.org Description-en: office productivity suite – shared library LibreOffice is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office.

This package contains common libraries of LibreOffice Base used by Base, Writer and Calc.

There are three methods to install libreoffice-base-core on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libreoffice-base-core Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-base-core using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-base-core

Install libreoffice-base-core Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-base-core using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libreoffice-base-core

Install libreoffice-base-core Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-base-core using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libreoffice-base-core

How To Uninstall libreoffice-base-core on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libreoffice-base-core package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-base-core

Uninstall libreoffice-base-core And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libreoffice-base-core and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreoffice-base-core

Remove libreoffice-base-core Configurations and Data

To remove libreoffice-base-core configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libreoffice-base-core

Remove libreoffice-base-core configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libreoffice-base-core configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreoffice-base-core

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-base-core package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.