Installing SoftMaker Office 2021 for Linux
SoftMaker Office 2021 contains a set of 64-bit applications that can be used with 64-bit (x86_64, amd64) Linux distributions. 32-bit distributions are not supported.
We test SoftMaker Office with the current versions of the following distributions and recommend choosing one of them:
Debian
Ubuntu
Linux Mint
openSUSE
Fedora
Download
.rpm package for RPM-based systems
.deb package for DEB-based systems
.tgz package for other systems
Installation on Ubuntu and Linux Mint
To install SoftMaker Office, simply double-click on the DEB installation package.
Setting up automatic updates on Ubuntu and Linux Mint
SoftMaker Office 2021 can be updated from this DEB repository: https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt
You can configure your system to use this repository by first installing SoftMaker Office as described above, then opening a shell or terminal window and entering this command:
sudo /usr/share/office2021/add_apt_repo.sh
If you have set up automatic updates on your system, Linux will then keep SoftMaker Office 2021 up-to-date automatically.
If you do not use automatic updates on your system, entering these commands will update SoftMaker Office 2021 to the latest available revision:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Installation on Debian
On Debian, you should install SoftMaker Office using the command line.
Open a shell or terminal window and enter these commands:
su –
apt-get update
dpkg -i softmaker-office-2021_1014-01_amd64.deb
apt-get install -f
Setting up automatic updates on Debian
SoftMaker Office 2021 can be updated from this DEB repository: https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt
You can configure your system to use this repository by first installing SoftMaker Office as described above, then opening a shell or terminal window and entering these commands:
su –
/usr/share/office2021/add_apt_repo.sh
If you have set up automatic updates on your system, Linux will then keep SoftMaker Office 2021 up-to-date automatically.
If you do not use automatic updates on your system, entering these commands will update SoftMaker Office 2021 to the latest available revision:
su –
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Installation on Fedora
The RPM installation packages are digitally signed by SoftMaker. Before installing SoftMaker Office, you should download our public GPG key and import it. Open a shell or terminal window and enter this command:
sudo rpm –import linux-repo-public.key
If you skip this step, you will still be able to install SoftMaker RPM packages, but you must press Ignore when being told about the missing GPG key.
Then install SoftMaker Office by double-clicking on the RPM installation package.
Setting up automatic updates on Fedora
SoftMaker Office 2021 can be updated from this RPM repository: https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/rpm
You can configure your system to use this repository by first installing SoftMaker Office as described above, then opening a shell or terminal window and entering this command:
sudo /usr/share/office2021/add_rpm_repo.sh
If you have set up automatic updates on your system, Linux will then keep SoftMaker Office 2021 up-to-date automatically.
If you do not use automatic updates on your system, entering these commands will update SoftMaker Office 2021 to the latest available revision:
If you use yum:
sudo yum update
If you use dnf:
sudo dnf upgrade
Installation on openSUSE
The RPM installation packages are digitally signed by SoftMaker. Before installing SoftMaker Office, you should download our public GPG key and import it. Open a shell or terminal window and enter this command:
sudo rpm –import linux-repo-public.key
Do not skip this step, or else installation will fail with an obscure error message “Internal error” flashing shortly on the screen.
Then install SoftMaker Office by right-clicking on the RPM installation package and choosing “Install or remove software.”
Setting up automatic updates on openSUSE
SoftMaker Office 2021 can be updated from this RPM repository: https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/rpm
You can configure your system to use this repository by first installing SoftMaker Office as described above, then opening a shell or terminal window and entering this command:
sudo /usr/share/office2021/add_rpm_repo.sh
If you have set up automatic updates on your system, Linux will then keep SoftMaker Office 2021 up-to-date automatically.
If you do not use automatic updates on your system, entering these commands will update SoftMaker Office 2021 to the latest available revision:
If you use zypper: sudo zypper update
If you use yum: sudo yum update
If you use dnf: sudo dnf upgrade
If you have set up automatic updates on your system, you can skip this step, as Linux will update SoftMaker Office 2021 automatically for you.
Installation on other systems
If your system is not listed here and you cannot run the installation with the instructions given above, you can install SoftMaker Office using our .tgz-based installation packages.
Download the .tgz installation package. Uncompress and untar it, then run the installation script inside:
tar xvzf softmaker-office-2021-1014-amd64.tgz
./installsmoffice
Restoring document icons
When you install SoftMaker Office, the icons for common document formats such as DOCX, XLSX and PPTX are assigned to SoftMaker Office. If you do not like our icon style, you can easily restore the previous icons by running this script:
sudo /usr/share/office2021/mime/remove_icons.sh
