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Install

Libera Suite runs on Windows 10 and 11 (x64), Linux (x86_64 and arm64) and macOS (Apple Silicon). Installing it needs no administrator password: it installs for your account only.

Windows

Download the installer and double-click it:

https://cdn.abilian.com/libera/bundles/Libera-Suite-Setup.exe

It puts Libera Suite in the Start menu and on the desktop, and adds it to Explorer's Open with. Everything is included, so there is nothing to download afterwards.

If you prefer a command, this line in PowerShell does the same, and also checks the download against its published fingerprint:

irm https://cdn.abilian.com/libera/install.ps1 | iex

Windows will ask two things the first time:

  • "Windows protected your PC", when you open the downloaded installer. The installer is not yet signed with a certificate, which is what this warning looks for. Choose More info, then Run anyway. The PowerShell line does not trigger it.
  • "How do you want to open this file?", the first time you double-click a document that another program, such as Word, can also open. Pick Libera Suite and tick Always. You can change it later in Settings › Apps › Default apps.

Linux

Open a terminal and run:

curl -fsSL https://cdn.abilian.com/libera/install.sh | sh

If your machine has Flatpak, this installs Libera Suite as a Flatpak, with everything it needs inside, and adds it to your applications menu. Otherwise it installs the libera command; the first time you run it, it names any system packages your distribution is missing and the exact command to install them.

It works on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 35, RHEL 9 and anything newer. Without Flatpak it also needs Python 3.12 or newer, and says so before changing anything if it is missing.

If you use Homebrew on Linux, the Homebrew line in the macOS section below works there too.

macOS

With Homebrew, open Terminal and run:

brew install abilian/tap/libera

Homebrew builds Libera Suite on your Mac. The first time you run libera, it offers to download the editors, about 110 MB.

Without Homebrew, you need Python 3.12 or newer, which macOS does not include: install it from python.org. Then run:

curl -fsSL https://cdn.abilian.com/libera/install.sh | sh

Either way, you get the libera command. On macOS, Libera Suite is started from a terminal for now: a double-clickable application is on the roadmap.

Start it

  • Windows: from the Start menu or the desktop, or by double-clicking a document.
  • Linux: from your applications menu, or with libera in a terminal.
  • macOS: with libera in Terminal. Give it a document to open that one:
libera ~/Documents/report.docx

On its own, libera opens the start window, where you can create a document, open one, or pick a recent one:

The start window, with a New tile for each of Document, Spreadsheet and Presentation, an Open button, and a Recent list of three documents.

Work with documents is the next page: opening, saving, exporting and printing.

Update

Run the same installer or command again. It replaces the installed version with the latest one.

With Homebrew, run brew upgrade libera. If a new version needs new editors, Libera Suite offers to download them the next time it starts.

Uninstall

  • Windows: Settings › Apps › Installed apps › Libera Suite › Uninstall.

  • Linux, installed as a Flatpak (flatpak list shows eu.liberasuite.Libera):

    flatpak uninstall --user eu.liberasuite.Libera
rm -f ~/.local/share/applications/eu.liberasuite.Libera.desktop ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/eu.liberasuite.Libera.*

  • Linux, otherwise:

    libera --launcher-remove
rm -rf ~/.local/bin/libera ~/.local/share/libera

  • macOS:

    libera --payload-remove
rm -rf ~/.local/bin/libera ~/.local/share/libera

  • Homebrew, on either system:

    libera --payload-remove
brew uninstall libera

Your documents are never touched. What Libera Suite keeps between runs, such as the Recent list and unsaved sessions, stays behind: in ~/Library/Application Support/Libera Suite on macOS, and in ~/.var/app/eu.liberasuite.Libera for the Flatpak. Delete that directory to remove every trace.

If something goes wrong

Run this in a terminal (on Windows, in PowerShell: & "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\Libera Suite\libera-cli.exe" --diagnose):

libera --diagnose

It prints one screen. Two lines matter most:

  • window should say ok. On Linux, NOT AVAILABLE means system packages are missing, and running libera prints the command to install them.
  • payload names the editors and where they came from. MISSING means they were not downloaded: run libera --payload-install.

What works today lists the problems we already know about. For anything else, tell us, with the output of libera --diagnose pasted in.

To install with pipx or uv, to install the Flatpak by hand, or to pass options to the install script, read Other ways to install.