Document Foundation has announced today the release of its next major roll out of LibreOffice suite, version 3.5, calling it as "The best free office suite ever".


The new version boast to include many new improvements such as,


Installing LibreOffice 3.5 in Ubuntu

Careful users can wait for LibreOffice PPA to be updated and install the latest version through ubuntu update manager, while power and curious  users can download the latest version and install it right now using the following method.
  • $ sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core
Extract the downloaded archive and change to the DEBS directory containing the .deb installers. Issue the following command at the terminal
  • $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Now change to the "desktop-integration" sub-directory in the DEBS 
  •  $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Enjoy!