You install Ubuntu, choose the minimal installation to control the bloatware, go to install LibreOffice , open GNOME Software because you want to avoid Canonical's restrictions on Ubuntu Software… and where's the DEB version? Next to Firefox: it's gone. You can search in Ubuntu Software, GNOME Software, or with `apt install`, but it doesn't appear. Canonical doesn't offer the suite in its official repositories, so the best thing to do is what was done in the old days: add a repository.
The Document Foundation has long offered Flatpak and Snap versions of LibreOffice. A repository for Ubuntu-based operating systems has also been available for some time, but because it comes pre-installed on Canonical systems with the standard version, many of us don't even think about it. However, the repository does exist, and here we'll explain how to add and use it.
Add the LibreOffice repository and update it to the latest version
Before outlining the commands, it's important to explain what is installed when adding the repository. The Document Foundation offers , in addition to beta, release candidate, and other versions, two stable versions of its office suite: "still," which is the name given to the more tested, "restricted" version, and "fresh," which is the most up-to-date version, currently v7.4.3 . This repository contains the "fresh" version.
Explained this, the commands to write are:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install libreoffice libreoffice-l10n-es
libreoffice-l10n-es is the necessary package for LibreOffice to be in Spanish; can be exchanged for another. To see the available languages, you can search for them in Synaptic (sudo apt install synaptic) or from the terminal itself with the apt search libreoffice-10n command.
And that would be all. In the end, as we have explained, it is what was done before so much software appeared in the official repositories. With such simple steps, LibreOffice installed, and in DEB.