LibreOffice 5.2 Beta Now Available as a Flatpak for Common Linux Distributions

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The upcoming LibreOffice 5.2 open-source and cross-platform office suite has entered Beta stages of development, and a first Beta release is now available for download on supported platforms.

However, GNU/Linux users who have support for the new Flatpak package on their distros are in for a treat, as a group of LibreOffice developers have started maintaining a Flatpak bundle for the upcoming office suite, for easy distribution on multiple operating systems, despite the default package format used.

For those of you not in the loop, Flatpak is a new package format created by the GNOME Project, initially called XDG-App. It is an alternative to the AppImage format, as well as Ubunt… (read more)

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