How to upgrade to LibreOffice 7.4 on Linux

LibreOffice 7.4 is out, with new and exciting features and fixes. This is the guide if you want to upgrade to the latest version of LibreOffice on Linux. Follow along as we show you how to upgrade to LibreOffice 7.4 on Linux.

Ubuntu instructions

Ubuntu users can upgrade to the latest version of LibreOffice (7.4) by downloading the official DEB packages from the Libre Office website. First, head over to the website. Once there, find the “Download LibreOffice” download section.

On the “Download LibreOffice” section, find the “Choose your operating system” area. Then, select “Linux (64-bit) (deb)” and click on the yellow “Download” button. When you choose the “Download” button, you’ll see a message appear that says, “Your download LibreOffice_7.4.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz (191 MB) should begin shortly. Please click the link if it doesn’t start”.

The download should take a while, as it is a few gigabytes in size. When the LibreOffice TarGZ file finishes downloading, open up a terminal window. You can open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard. Or, search for “Terminal” in the app menu and launch it that way.

With the terminal window open, use the CD command and move into the “Downloads” directory.

cd ~/Downloads/

Use the tar xvf command to extract the newly downloaded LibreOffice TarGZ file.

tar xvf LibreOffice_7.4.*_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

Enter the extracted folder using the CD command.

cd LibreOffice_7.4*_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/

Once inside the DEB package folder, you’ll need to install all the files. There are many, many DEB packages to install. To speed this up, use the following command below.

sudo apt install ./*.deb -y

The installation process will take a bit of time to finish. However, you’ll have upgraded to LibreOffice 7.4 on Ubuntu when the installation completes.

Debian instructions

If you use Debian, you won’t be able to upgrade to LibreOffice 7.4 by simply updating your operating system. Thankfully, LibreOffice provides a complete set of DEB packages on their website you can use to upgrade to the new version.

To start, head over to the official LibreOffice website. Once there, locate the “Download LibreOffice” page. Then, click on the drop-down menu beneath “Choose your operating system.”

Set the “Choose your operating system” drop-down menu to “Linux (64-bit) (deb)”. Then, click the yellow “Download” button to download Libre Office 7.4 to your Debian Linux system.

Once the download is complete, open up a terminal window by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard. Or, search for “Terminal” in the app menu and launch it that way. When the terminal is open, use the following tar command.

tar xvf LibreOffice_7.4.*_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

Enter the newly extracted folder with the CD command.

cd LibreOffice_7.4*_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/

Once inside the “DEBS” folder, you can install the Libre Office DEB packages on your Debian system using the following apt-get install command.

sudo apt-get install ./*.deb -y

The installation will take a while to complete. When finished,

Arch Linux instructions

Arch Linux regularly issues updates to LibreOffice. You’ll need to update your packages if you’re looking to use the newest 7.4 release of LibreOffice. If you haven’t updated Arch Linux in a while, that’s OK.

To update Arch Linux to use LibreOffice 7.4, do the following. First, open up a terminal window. You can open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard. Or, search for “Terminal” in the app menu and open it that way.

With the terminal window open and ready to use, run the pacman -Syyu command. This command will refresh Pacman’s software repositories and upgrade packages on your system with new ones.

If you’re on Arch Linux and do not have LibreOffice installed, you can quickly upgrade to LibreOffice 7.4 by running the following pacman -S command.

sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh

Fedora instructions

In the Fedora Linux software repos, the latest version of LibreOffice is 7.3. Thankfully, if you want to upgrade to the new 7.4 release, you can download the official RPM packages from the LibreOffice website and install them.

To get your hands on the latest 7.4 RPM packages, find the “Download LibreOffice” section of the LibreOffice website. Then, click on the “Choose your operating system” drop-down menu. Set the menu to “Linux (64-bit) (rpm),” and click on the yellow “Download” button to get the LibreOffice TarGZ file.

Once the LibreOffice TarGZ file is downloaded and added to your computer, use the CD command and move the console into the “Downloads” folder. Then run the tar xvf command to extract the RPM package files.

cd ~/Downloads

tar xvf LibreOffice_7.4.*_Linux_x86-64_rpm

Move the terminal console into the newly extracted folder using the CD command.

cd LibreOffice_7.4.*_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS/

You can now upgrade your version of LibreOffice on Fedora Linux from 7.3 to 7.4 using the dnf install command below.

sudo dnf install *.rpm -y

OpenSUSE instructions

Those that use OpenSUSE Linux can upgrade the current version of LibreOffice to 7.4 by downloading the latest RPM packages from the official LibreOffice website.

To download the latest 7.4 RPM packages for your OpenSUSE computer, do the following. First, find the “Download LibreOffice” section of the website, and set the drop-down menu to “Linux (64-bit) (rpm).” Next, select the yellow “Download” button to get the LibreOffice TarGZ file downloaded to your computer.

Once the LibreOffice TarGZ file is downloaded and added to your computer, you will need to extract the RPM package files. First, use the CD command to access the “Downloads” folder. Then, extract the TarGZ file.

cd ~/Downloads

tar xvf LibreOffice_7.4.*_Linux_x86-64_rpm

Access the RPM folder on your OpenSUSE Linux PC using the CD command.

cd LibreOffice_7.4.*_Linux_x86-64_rpm/RPMS/

You can now upgrade your version of LibreOffice on OpenSUSE using the zypper install command.

sudo zypper install *.rpm -y

Snap package instructions

If you’ve installed LibreOffice as a Snap package, you won’t need to download anything special to use 7.4. To get the latest version, run the snap refresh command. This command will install the latest LibreOffice version over your old one.

sudo snap refresh

Flatpak instructions

If you’ve installed LibreOffice as a Flatpak package, like Snap, you will not need to install any new packages. Instead, you’ll need to update using the flatpak update command.