Installing SoftMaker Office 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 2021 with the current versions of the following distributions and recommend choosing one of them:
Information on how to install on other systems can be found here.
You can install SoftMaker Office 2021 for Linux in one of the two following ways:
- Via the SoftMaker repository: This is the recommended installation method if you are using a DEB or RPM-based Linux. You add the SoftMaker repository to your Linux system once and then receive all updates automatically.
- By downloading from our web server: You download SoftMaker Office and install it manually. When an update is released, you download the new installation package and install it again manually.
Debian
Recommended: Installation via the SoftMaker repository
If you use the SoftMaker repository, you can easily install SoftMaker Office and keep it up to date.
Open a shell or terminal window and enter these commands to set up the repository and install SoftMaker Office:
su -
mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO- https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/linux-repo-public.key | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/softmaker.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/softmaker.gpg] https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt stable non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/softmaker.list
apt update
apt install softmaker-office-2021
exit
If you have set up automatic updates on your system, your Linux package manager will keep SoftMaker Office up to date automatically.
If you do not use automatic updates on your system, you can update SoftMaker Office to the latest available revision by entering the following commands:
su -
apt update
apt upgrade
Alternative: Manual installation
Open a shell or terminal window and enter the following commands to download and install SoftMaker Office:
su -
cd ~
wget https://www.softmaker.net/down/softmaker-office-2021_1068-01_amd64.deb
apt update
apt install -f ./softmaker-office-2021_1068-01_amd64.deb
exit
When a service pack is released, you can install it in the same way.
Ubuntu, Linux Mint
Recommended: Installation via the SoftMaker repository
If you use the SoftMaker repository, you can easily install SoftMaker Office and keep it up to date.
Open a shell or terminal window and enter these commands to set up the repository and install SoftMaker Office:
sudo -i
mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO- https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/linux-repo-public.key | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/softmaker.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/softmaker.gpg] https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt stable non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/softmaker.list
apt update
apt install softmaker-office-2021
exit
If you have set up automatic updates on your system, your Linux package manager will keep SoftMaker Office up to date automatically.
If you do not use automatic updates on your system, you can update SoftMaker Office to the latest available revision by entering the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Alternative: Manual installation
Open a shell or terminal window and enter the following commands to download and install SoftMaker Office:
sudo -i
cd ~
wget https://www.softmaker.net/down/softmaker-office-2021_1068-01_amd64.deb
apt update
apt install -f ./softmaker-office-2021_1068-01_amd64.deb
exit
When a service pack is released, you can install it in the same way.
Manjaro
Manjaro includes SoftMaker Office 2021 in its repository, making its installation especially easy.
Open a shell or terminal window and enter the following command to install SoftMaker Office:
sudo pamac install softmaker-office-2021
The Manjaro package manager keeps SoftMaker Office up to date automatically.
Fedora
Recommended: Installation via the SoftMaker repository
If you use the SoftMaker repository, you can easily install SoftMaker Office and keep it up to date.
Open a shell or terminal window and enter these commands to set up the repository and install SoftMaker Office:
sudo wget -qO /etc/yum.repos.d/softmaker.repo https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/softmaker.repo
sudo -E dnf upgrade
sudo -E dnf install softmaker-office-2021
If Fedora prompts you to confirm the import of the SoftMaker GPG key, you should do so.
If you have set up automatic updates on your system, your Linux package manager will keep SoftMaker Office up to date automatically.
If you do not use automatic updates on your system, you can update SoftMaker Office to the latest available revision by entering the following command:
sudo -E dnf upgrade
Alternative: Manual installation
Our RPM installation packages are digitally signed. Before installing SoftMaker Office, you should download our public GPG key:
Open a shell or terminal window and enter the following command to import the GPG key:
sudo rpm --import ./linux-repo-public.key
Note: If you have not downloaded the GPG key to the current folder, replace ./ with the path to the key file.
If you skip this step, you will still be able to install SoftMaker RPM packages, but you must press Ignore when you are informed of the missing GPG key.
Next, download the RPM installation package of SoftMaker Office:
Install this package by double-clicking on it.
When a service pack is released, download the latest RPM installation package and install it again by double-clicking on it.
openSUSE
Recommended: Installation via the SoftMaker repository
If you use the SoftMaker repository, you can easily install SoftMaker Office and keep it up to date.
Open a shell or terminal window and enter the following commands to set up the repository:
sudo zypper addrepo -f https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/rpm SoftMaker
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys ref
You must confirm these commands by entering your root password.
Then enter the following command to install SoftMaker Office:
sudo -E zypper install softmaker-office-2021
If you have set up automatic updates on your system, your Linux package manager will keep SoftMaker Office up to date automatically.
If you do not use automatic updates on your system, you can update SoftMaker Office to the latest available revision by entering the following commands:
– If you use zypper:
sudo -E zypper update
– If you use dnf:
sudo -E dnf upgrade
Alternative: Manual installation
Open a shell or terminal window and enter the following commands:
1. Download our public PGP key and import it:
cd ~
wget https://shop.softmaker.com/repo/linux-repo-public.key
sudo rpm --import ./linux-repo-public.key
2. Download the RPM installation package of SoftMaker Office and install it:
cd ~
wget https://www.softmaker.net/down/softmaker-office-2021-1068.x86_64.rpm
sudo -E zypper install ./softmaker-office-2021-1068.x86_64.rpm
When a service pack is released, you can install it in the same way.
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 package.
First, download the .tgz installation package of SoftMaker Office:
Unpack it:
tar xvzf ./softmaker-office-2021-1068-amd64.tgz
Note: If you have not downloaded the .tgz file to the current folder, replace ./ with the path to the .tgz file.
Then run the installation script contained in it:
./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