Here we are let you know how to install WPS office Linux on Debian base platforms like Ubuntu 19.04,18.04,16.04,14.04; Linux Mint, Elementary OS and more WPS Office for Linux and Windows 10/8/7 developed by the Corporation Kingsoft which an office software suite that provides the most common text, spreadsheet, presentation and other features.
An updated version of WPS Office for Linux is available to download for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
The popular China-based office suite (formerly known as Kingsoft Office) is not open source but it is free to download and to use.
A handful of features (including cloud backup) are only available to users with a premium or professional subscription/serial key, while other features (like a PDF reader) are exclusive to the iOS and Android apps.
Trivia: ‘WPS’ stands for ‘Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet’
This week saw an update to WPS Office 2016 for Linux released, which serves as the first major update to this particular office suite this year.
Among the changes and improvements on offer through this update:
- Custom quick access toolbar
- Manual directory function
- Support “text sort” and “table sort”
- Artistic page borders
- Ability to accept or reject format revisions
- Support for pivot charts
- The digital format supports the locale
- New “font preview” function
- Support batch delete remarks function
The appeal of WPS Office for Linux is that it looks similar to Microsoft Office
You can see a full list on the WPS Community download page, which we’ll get to in a second.
Worth a punt?
Like fellow free productivity software FreeOffice, SoftMaker Office, and LibreOffice, WPS Office boasts of its “compatibility with Microsoft Office document formats”.
But the real appeal of WPS Office for Linux over its rivals is that it looks similar to Microsoft Office.
Like, awfully similar:
WPS Office say their productivity suite has been installed 1.2 billion times across Windows, Linux, iOS and Android, with users swayed by its affordability, compatibility, and comparability to to Microsoft Office and its Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word applications.
Popular though it is I should mention that WPS Office for Linux is in perpetual alpha — so if you plan to install WPS Office on your Ubuntu desktop do keep that caveat cautiously in mind.
Download WPS Office for Ubuntu
You can download WPS Office for Linux from the “WPS community” website link below, where installers are provided for both 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu.
For Windows builds head over to the official WPS website.
ThanksKevin S.
WPS Office, (also known as Kingsoft Office) is a loyal clone of Microsoft Office 2007. The problem is that WPS Office is a beta version, and that the interface is in Chinese.
But, there are some tricks that can be done, to get rid of the Chinese interface and get an English one.
So, are you interested in a free Microsoft Office 2007 Clone? Actually, you only have replacements for Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Also, the WPS Office gives you the possibility to work with tabs and toggle between them, instead of opening new windows.
If I have convinced you, this is how you install WPS Office on your Linux Operating System:
Download wps*.deb, for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Knoppix or other dpkg based systems:
$ wget -c wdl.cache.ijinshan.com/wps/download/Linux/unstable/wps-office_8.1.0.3724~b1p2_i386.deb
Install Wps Office:
$ sudo dpkg -i wps-office*
Download wps* .rpm for Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE or other rpm based systems:
$ wget -c wdl.cache.ijinshan.com/wps/download/Linux/unstable/wps-office-8.1.0.3724-0.1.b1p2.i686.rpm
Install Wps Office:
$ sudo rpm -i wps-office*
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After you first open WPS Office, you will be asked to type in your username and mail, probably, since the interface is Chinese, I can’t know for sure. Type in whatever you want and close the app.
This is what you have to do to get the WPS Office interface in English:
$ cd /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/2052
$ sudo rm qt.qm wps.qm wpp.qm et.qm
Open WPS Office again and notice that the interface is in English now.
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