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How to Install OnlyOffice Desktop Editor in Ubuntu

To Install OnlyOffice Desktop Editor in Ubuntu

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editor is a web-based office suite that allows the viewers and editors to access text documents, spreadsheets and presentations in offline. It enables the users to switch into the online mode easily. It supports all the popular formats like DOC, DOCX, TXT, ODT, RTF, HTML, etc. This article shows the installation of OnlyOffice Desktop Editor in Ubuntu is explained.

Features

  • Document management
  • Project management with Gantt Chart
  • CRM and invoicing
  • Set of tools available for collaboration
  • Email aggregator


Installation of OnlyOffice Desktop Editor

Utilize the following command to download the key.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget http://download.onlyoffice.com/repo/onlyoffice.key
--2016-11-22 00:18:46--  http://download.onlyoffice.com/repo/onlyoffice.key
Resolving download.onlyoffice.com (download.onlyoffice.com)... 54.230.191.217, 54.230.191.158, 54.230.191.21, ...
Connecting to download.onlyoffice.com (download.onlyoffice.com)|54.230.191.217|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3380 (3.3K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ onlyoffice.key’ 

onlyoffice.key      100%[=====================> ]   3.30K  --.-KB/s   in 0s     

2016-11-22 00:18:48 (135 MB/s) - ‘ onlyoffice.key’  saved [3380/3380]

Immediately import the key.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-key add onlyoffice.key
OK

Now its time to open the source.list file and add the following line at end of the file.

root@linuxhelp:~# vim /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://download.onlyoffice.com/repo/debian squeeze main

Once the above process is completed, run update command to take effect.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://download.onlyoffice.com squeeze InRelease [6,847 B]               
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily InRelease                                
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security InRelease                     
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-updates InRelease   
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Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/restricted Translation-en      
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe Translation-en        
Fetched 11.6 kB in 14s (820 B/s)                                               
Reading package lists... Done

Now its time to install the OnlyOffice desktop editor package.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install onlyoffice-desktopeditors
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cabextract fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra
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libcurl-gnutls.so.4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.4
Setting up cabextract (1.6-1) ...
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...

Launch the OnlyOffice editor, after installed it successfully.

root@linuxhelp:~# desktopeditors

Welcome page of OnlyOffice Desktop editor will display as shown below,

To verify the installed package, create a document.

Create a spreadsheet.

Also create a presentation with advanced editing options.

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FAQ
Q
Does this OnlyOffice support CRM and invoicing?
A
OnlyOffice do support following features,
Document management
Project management with Gantt Chart
CRM and invoicing
Q
Is it secure to host my portal with the ONLY OFFICE in the cloud?
A
The ONLY OFFICE portal is powered by the following web services: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon RDS. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provide reliable infrastructure in the cloud used by thousands of developers worldwide.
Q
Who is ONLYOFFICE for?
A
ONLYOFFICE is for small and mid-size companies looking for an effective platform for business process management.
Q
We would like to host ONLYOFFICE ourselves. Is that possible?
A
Yes. It is possible to download and compile ONLYOFFICE from source code. Thereafter you can deploy it on your own server. The source code is listed on SourceForge and distributed under GNU Affero General
Q
Do I get the steps to install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors as a snap package?
A
Follow the procedure as follows to install ONLYOFFICE
# snap install only office-desktop editor