Installing Libre Office in Kali Linux

Summary

• Download from the official source
• Extract and install Libre Office

In this tutorial I will show you how to install Libre Office in Kali linux. In their own words

You can find them here.

Download from the official source

• Go to their official web page at https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/.

• You can download the latest current version of the .deb file. The current version while writing this is 7.3.1, which you can find here. You can also use a mirror list to use a direct FTP link to download.

┌──(user㉿kali-01)-[~/Downloads/LibreOffice]
└─$ wget "https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/tdf/libreoffice/stable/7.3.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.3.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz"
--2022-03-03 18:57:06--  https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/tdf/libreoffice/stable/7.3.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.3.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
Resolving ftp.osuosl.org (ftp.osuosl.org)... 64.50.233.100, 64.50.236.52, 140.211.166.134, ...
Connecting to ftp.osuosl.org (ftp.osuosl.org)|64.50.233.100|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 195897910 (187M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘LibreOffice_7.3.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz’

LibreOffice_7.3.1_Linux_x86 100%[==========================================>] 186.82M  4.53MB/s    in 53s     

2022-03-03 18:58:00 (3.55 MB/s) - ‘LibreOffice_7.3.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz’ saved [195897910/195897910]

Extract and install Libre Office

• Once you have downloaded the version of Libre Office that you would like to install, extract the tar.gz file.

┌──(user㉿kali-01)-[~/Downloads/LibreOffice]
└─$ ls
LibreOffice_7.3.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

┌──(user㉿kali-01)-[~/Downloads/LibreOffice]
└─$ tar xvf LibreOffice_7.3.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz 
# Extraction lines here <truncated>
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/libobasis7.3-base_7.3.1.3-3_amd64.deb
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/libobasis7.3-math_7.3.1.3-3_amd64.deb
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/libobasis7.3-onlineupdate_7.3.1.3-3_amd64.deb
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/libobasis7.3-extension-beanshell-script-provider_7.3.1.3-3_amd64.deb
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/libreoffice7.3_7.3.1.3-3_amd64.deb
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/libobasis7.3-en-us_7.3.1.3-3_amd64.deb
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/libreoffice7.3-math_7.3.1.3-3_amd64.deb
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/readmes/
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/readmes/README_en-US

• Once extracted, open a terminal, and go to the download folder. Go inside the DEBS folder and use the dpkg command to install it.

┌──(user㉿kali-01)-[~/Downloads/LibreOffice]
└─$ ls                                                            
LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb  LibreOffice_7.3.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

┌──(user㉿kali-01)-[~/Downloads/LibreOffice]
└─$ cd LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/

┌──(user㉿kali-01)-[~/Downloads/LibreOffice/LibreOffice_7.3.1.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS]
└─$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
# Installation lines here <truncated>
Setting up libreoffice7.3-dict-fr (7.3.1.3-3) ...
Setting up libreoffice7.3-draw (7.3.1.3-3) ...
Setting up libreoffice7.3-en-us (7.3.1.3-3) ...
Setting up libreoffice7.3-impress (7.3.1.3-3) ...
Setting up libreoffice7.3-math (7.3.1.3-3) ...
Setting up libreoffice7.3-writer (7.3.1.3-3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (2.1-2) ...

• To open Libre Office post install, you can search under Applications → Type in LibreOffice