Install LibreOffice

LibreOffice is the spinn-off of Open Office.
It gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. It will be the standard in Ubuntu from 11.4, but you allready can use it in Ubuntu 10.10.
To install Libreoffice 3.3 open a Terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and copy+paste the following lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
To integrate it into your desktop do
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome
For GNOME users and do

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde

for KDE Users.



Those who are using Gnome can install the Gnome package for better backend integration

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

To enable PDF import capability:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-pdfimport

To enable English spellcheck capability

sudo apt-get install language-support-en

To enable Dutch spellcheck capability

sudo apt-get install language-support-nl

When installed you can find LibreOffice under Applications -> Office.
LibreOffice

The homepage of LibreOffice Homepage.