How to Install WPS Office on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Derivatives
WPS Office is a simple and powerful Office Suite application or office equipment made by a company software developer from China, Kingsoft. WPS Office was formerly known as Kingsoft Office, WPS itself is an acronym for Writer, Presentations and Spreadsheets.
WPS Office is perfect for users who are familiar with Microsoft Office. Because WPS Office has interface which is similar to Microsoft Office. Not only that, by using WPS Office, users can open and edit files with Microsoft Office formats such as .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, and .ppt.
Here are some of the features that WPS Office has:
- Supports and runs on both 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems
- Fully compatible with Microsoft Office
- Has a spell check feature available in more than 10 languages.
- Insert photos, videos, custom animations and more
- Create graphs, charts and tables
- Multiple paragraph, page and text formatting features
- Paragraph adjusting tool with drag and drop, to easily change page formatting
- The worksheets support finance, statistics, IT, engineering, and more functions
- Automatically adjust cell size to content
- Has 100 functions and general formulas
- Capable of automatically compacting and summarizing cells with large volumes of content
- And many other features.
WPS Office personal version is a completely free Office Suite, but WPS also has a paid Office Suite. WPS Office has many versions of the Office Suite available for Windows, GNU/Linux, iOS and Android operating systems.
On the GNU/Linux operating system itself, WPS Office is compatible with many Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Knoppix and many more.
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Install WPS Office on Linux Mint, Ubuntu and its derivatives.
To install WPS Office on Ubuntu and its variants such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and others, as well as Ubuntu derivatives such as Linux Mint, download and install WPS Office in .deb or debian format packges with the following command.
Adjust to the system on the device you are using, 32 or 64 bit.
For 32 bit, use the following command:
cd && wget -O wps-office.deb http://kdl.cc.ksosoft.com/wps-community/download/a19/wps-office_9.1.0.4975~a19p1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i wps-office.deb
sudo apt-get -f install && rm wps-office.deb
wget -O web-office-fonts.deb http://kdl.cc.ksosoft.com/wps-community/download/a15/wps-office-fonts_1.0_all.deb sudo dpkg -i web-office-fonts.deb
For 64 bit systems, type the following command in Terminal:
cd && wget -O wps-office.deb http://kdl.cc.ksosoft.com/wps-community/download/a19/wps-office_9.1.0.4975~a19p1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i wps-office.deb
sudo apt-get -f install && rm wps-office.deb
wget -O web-office-fonts.deb http://kdl.cc.ksosoft.com/wps-community/download/a15/wps-office-fonts_1.0_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i web-office-fonts.deb
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After successfully downloading and installing the WPS Office Application. Open the WPS Office application via the application menu or Launcher on the Desktop.

