Installation from packages

Collabora deliver signed binary packages for 64-bit Linux distributions.

Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) and Collabora Online (COOL) packages are available on x86-64, arm64, and ppc64le platforms.

On the x86-64 platform the baseline OS – where the packages are built – is EL7. On the arm64 and ppc64le platforms the baseline OS is EL8. These packages should work on any modern, supported Linux distribution (glibc is required).

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, Ubuntu, other deb based Linux distribution

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/23.05/customer-deb-$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, CentOS, and their derivatives

Please type the following commands into the shell as root:

import the signing key

wget https://collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/23.05/customer-rpm-$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/23.05/customer-rpm-$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/23.05/customer-rpm-$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/23.05/customer-rpm-$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 6.4 or earlier version to version 21.11 or newer, please read Upgrade to Collabora Online 21.11. Otherwise it is enough to change the version number in the repository URL and upgrade as usual with the respective package manager. Although upgrade process is safe, it is always a good idea to backup configuration files in /etc/coolwsd/ just in case.

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.

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