How To Install libreoffice on Fedora 34

libreoffice is Free Software Productivity Suite

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice on Fedora 34.

What is libreoffice

LibreOffice is an Open Source, community-developed, office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, formula editor and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, LibreOffice also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft Office File Formats.

We can use yum or dnf to install libreoffice on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libreoffice.

Install libreoffice on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libreoffice using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libreoffice

Install libreoffice on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libreoffice using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libreoffice

How To Uninstall libreoffice on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libreoffice

libreoffice Package Contents on Fedora 34

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.