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This is just a quick personal cheat sheet: treat its contents with caution!

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LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from , an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite consists of programs for word processing, creating and editing of spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae.

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Table of contents

• Install
• Use
  • Troubleshooting
    • LibreOffice takes a lot of time to save with 100% CPU load

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Install

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# apk add libreoffice

# apt install libreoffice

# dnf install libreoffice

# emerge -a app-office/libreoffice

on NixOSon non-NixOS

# nix-env -iA nixos.libreoffice

# nix-env -iA nixpkgs.libreoffice

# pacman -S libreoffice

# yum install libreoffice

# xbps-install -S libreoffice

# zypper install libreoffice

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Use

Troubleshooting

LibreOffice takes a lot of time to save with 100% CPU load

Reference(s)

• https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-6-on-ubuntu-linux-soffice-bin-100-cpu-load/33945/11
• https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/why-is-soffice-bin-using-60-cpu-with-nothing-open/27405/2
• https://serverfault.com/questions/953809/soffice-bin-high-cpu-usage/986039#986039
• https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/writer-soffice-bin-eats-all-the-cpu-after-a-while-until-save/55908/12

If, after waiting 4-5 minutes, your document(s) are still saving with 100% CPU load, then run $ pkill soffice.binand re-open LibreOffice, letting it recover your open document(s).

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