Installing ONLYOFFICE Docs for Linux from snap package

Introduction

Community Edition allows you to install ONLYOFFICE Docs on your local server and integrate online editors with ONLYOFFICE collaboration platform or other popular systems.

ONLYOFFICE Docs is an online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.

Functionality

• Document Editor
• Spreadsheet Editor
• Presentation Editor
• Mobile web viewers
• Collaborative editing
• Hieroglyph support
• Support for all the popular formats: DOC, DOCX, TXT, ODT, RTF, ODP, EPUB, ODS, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPTX, HTML

Using it within ONLYOFFICE Workspace, you will be able to:

• share files;
• manage access rights to documents;
• embed documents on a website;
• view and edit files stored on Drive, Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, OwnCloud connected to ONLYOFFICE.

This guide will show you how to install ONLYOFFICE Docs Community Edition Linux version to your machine from snap package.

Installing ONLYOFFICE Docs using Snapcraft command line tool

ONLYOFFICE Docs is available in Snapcraft store as a snap package.

A snap contains all the dependencies to run the application. To use it, all you need is snapd, a system to install and manage snaps. Snapd is included into most of modern distributions. You only need to either enable or install it. See the official snap project page for the snapd installation instructions.

1. For example, to install snapd under Ubuntu, you need to run the commands:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install snapd

2. Now ONLYOFFICE Docs can be easily installed using the following command:

   sudo snap install onlyoffice-ds

Uninstalling ONLYOFFICE Docs

To remove the snap containing ONLYOFFICE Docs, use the following command:

sudo snap remove onlyoffice-ds