Installation from packages

Collabora delivers signed binary packages for 64-bit Linux distributions:

Debian 9
Debian 10
Debian 11
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 22.04

RHEL 7 / CentOS 7
RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

SLES 15 / openSUSE Leap 15.x

The Installation Procedure

On all the supported platforms, the installation procedure consist of three steps:

Import of the signing key
The installation itself
Starting of the service, and enabling it for auto-start after reboot

Collabora’s Partner

If you are Collabora’s Partner, please log into The Partner portal get your unique secret URL from the Partner portal and follow the instructions listed there.

CODE

If you are not Collabora’s Partner please follow CODE instructions

Distro-specific Installation Instructions

To install Collabora Office you need system administrator (root) privileges. The following command line examples are supposed to be entered from a system administrator (root) account. Alternatively you can use sudo.

export customer_hash=Example-413539ece39485afc35b4a469adfde0a279d2fd2

Debian 9

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

download the signing key

cd /usr/share/keyrings
wget https://collaboraoffice.com/downloads/gpg/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg

add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.d

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collaboraonline.sources
Types: deb
URIs: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-debian9-$customer_hash
Suites: ./
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg
EOF

perform the installation

apt update && apt install coolwsd collabora-online-brand

After successful installation, please follow the chapter Configuration.

Debian 10

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

download the signing key

cd /usr/share/keyrings
wget https://collaboraoffice.com/downloads/gpg/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg

add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.d

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collaboraonline.sources
Types: deb
URIs: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-debian10-$customer_hash
Suites: ./
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg
EOF

perform the installation

apt update && apt install coolwsd collabora-online-brand

After successful installation, please follow the chapter Configuration.

Ubuntu 16.04

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

download the signing key

cd /usr/share/keyrings
wget https://collaboraoffice.com/downloads/gpg/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg

add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.d

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collaboraonline.sources
Types: deb
URIs: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-ubuntu1604-$customer_hash
Suites: ./
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg
EOF

perform the installation

apt update && apt install coolwsd collabora-online-brand

After successful installation, please follow the chapter Configuration.

Ubuntu 18.04

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

download the signing key

cd /usr/share/keyrings
wget https://collaboraoffice.com/downloads/gpg/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg

add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.d

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collaboraonline.sources
Types: deb
URIs:https://www.collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-ubuntu1804-$customer_hash
Suites: ./
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg
EOF

perform the installation

apt update && apt install coolwsd collabora-online-brand

After successful installation, please follow the chapter Configuration.

Ubuntu 20.04

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

download the signing key

cd /usr/share/keyrings
wget https://collaboraoffice.com/downloads/gpg/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg

add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.d

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collaboraonline.sources
Types: deb
URIs:https://www.collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-ubuntu2004-$customer_hash
Suites: ./
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg
EOF

perform the installation

apt update && apt install coolwsd collabora-online-brand

After successful installation, please follow the chapter Configuration.

Ubuntu 22.04

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

download the signing key

cd /usr/share/keyrings
wget https://collaboraoffice.com/downloads/gpg/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg

add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.d

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collaboraonline.sources
Types: deb
URIs:https://www.collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-ubuntu2204-$customer_hash
Suites: ./
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/collaboraonline-release-keyring.gpg
EOF

perform the installation

apt update && apt install coolwsd collabora-online-brand

After successful installation, please follow the chapter Configuration.

RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 (at least 7.2)

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

import the signing key

wget https://collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-centos7-$customer_hash/repodata/repomd.xml.key && rpm --import repomd.xml.key

add the repository URL to yum

yum-config-manager --add-repo https://collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-centos7-$customer_hash

perform the installation

yum install coolwsd collabora-online-brand

After successful installation, please follow the chapter Configuration.

RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

import the signing key

wget https://collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-centos8-$customer_hash/repodata/repomd.xml.key && rpm --import repomd.xml.key

add the repository URL to yum

yum-config-manager --add-repo https://collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-centos8-$customer_hash

perform the installation

yum install coolwsd collabora-online-brand

After successful installation, please follow the chapter Configuration.

SLES 15 / openSUSE Leap 15.x

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

import the signing key

wget https://collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-opensuse15-$customer_hash/repodata/repomd.xml.key && rpm --import repomd.xml.key

add the repository URL to zypper

zypper ar -t yum
"https://collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/22.05/customer-opensuse15-$customer_hash"
"Collabora Online"

perform the installation

zypper ref && zypper in coolwsd collabora-online-brand

After successful installation, please follow the chapter Configuration.

How to upgrade

If you are upgrading from Collabora Online 4.2 or earlier version to version 6.4, follow these steps:

Backup /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml configuration file.
Remove loolwsd and collaboraoffice* packages.
Change the version number in the repository URL, e.g. from 4.2 to 6.4.
Install loolwsd package.
Restore /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml configuration file.

If you are upgrading from Collabora Online 6.4 or earlier version to version 21.11 or newer, please read Upgrade to Collabora Online 21.11

Localization

For complete user interface localization you need to install Collabora Office language resources. They are not direct dependencies of coolwsd. For example for German dialogs on Debian/Ubuntu:

apt install collaboraoffice*de

Spelling dictionaries and thesauri

Collabora Online can use internal spelling dictionaries and thesauri (collaboraoffice*-dict-* packages). Collabora Online can use system spelling dictionaries and thesauri, too, that are located in /usr/share/hunspell and /usr/share/mythes directories.

Additional, and starting with version 22.05, it’s possible to enable support for external grammar checking using LanguageTool. For information please consult Language Tool.