LibreOffice 6.x with Dark Theme and Icons for ElementaryOS

LibreOffice 6.x with Dark Theme and Icons for ElementaryOS

Just a quick gist to keep track of what was needed to have the latest libreoffice version with Dark Theme and the ElementaryOS Icon pack to be accorded with the ElementaryOS distribution.

Get the software

If you never used ppa before, you will need to install this package first software-properties-common.

sudo apt install software-properties-common

Then add the ppa like this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa && sudo apt update

Install the software

Now we can install the latest libreoffice version and the required packaged to make it fully compatible with the ElementaryOS experience.

Proceed like this:

sudo apt install libreoffice libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-style-elementary

Dark Theme for ElementaryOS

To enabled the Dark Theme, you will need to install another software named elementary-tweaks. More details of the project page. https://github.com/elementary-tweaks/elementary-tweaks

Install the package

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip.scott/elementary-tweaks && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks

Setup Dark Theme

Run elementary-tweaks and enable Prefer dark variant then login/logout, restart if needed.

Results

Here is how it looks like when finished 😎.

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