In 2023, the Chinese software company Kingsoft Office, which developed WPS Office, released an update with many improvements for Linux available for 64-bit computers; These are the steps to install it (Also at the end are the steps for the latest version 11.1.0.8392 for 32 and 64 bit). You can ask me any questions by email: [email protected].
Este tutorial está disponible en español aquí:
WPS Office 2019 versión 11.1.0.11711 actualización 2023 para Linux
🔗 https://facilitarelsoftwarelibre.blogspot.com/2023/11/wps-office-2019-version-11.1.0.11704-actualizacion-2023.html.html
This is an tutorial to install the 11.1.0.xxxxx on Linux only 64 bit
Tested in:
Abbreviations:
MX = MX Linux
Deb = Debian
Mint 21 = Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
✔ = Working Fine
❌ = Not Working
| WPS version | Release | MX 23(Deb 12) | MX 21(Deb 11) | Mint 21 | Ubuntu |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.1.0.10702 | ? | ❌ | |||
| 11.1.0.11704 | ©2023 | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 11.1.0.11711 | ©2023 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 11.1.0.11723 | ©2024 | ✔ |
WPS Office 11.1.0.xxxxx brings the four programs:
- Writer (Procesador de textos)
- Presentation (Presentaciones)
- Spreadsheet (Hojas de cálculo)
Note: From 11.1.0.11711 version WPS Office have the programs in same window:
You must download the Chinese version 11.1.0.xxxxx because it has the language switcher button enabled:
WPS Office Linux 12.1.0.xxxxx have problems with language switcher button because is missing, not download from there:
🔗 https://www.wps.cn/product/wpslinux
At this time 2025-01 not working the language switcher button, tested in 12.1:
- wps-office_12.1.0.17881_amd64.deb
- wps-office_12.1.0.17900_amd64.deb
perhaps later working.
Note: The program was previously available there at www.wps.cn but is no longer available.
There is some WPS version in the web in the following mirror, but I don't know when the link will go down:
🔗 https://mirrors.163.com/ubuntukylin/pool/partner/
Additionally, if you wish to use the WPS Office Linux version 11.1.0.11704, which has each program separately, as shown in the following screenshot:
This is other snapshot:
you can download it:
The following link is a mirror that I have uploaded in my own MEGA account in case the other downloads fail, this has some versions:
📥 From MEGA
🔗 https://mega.nz/folder/s6AQHSzC#Kd8qbA-Z7yeTa2P5qcVG3w
📥 In Telegram I have some versions:
🔗 https://t.me/c/1343202595/14
About the warning "This type of file can damage your computer. Do you want to download ... deb anyway?"
That message is a general warning that appears when downloading executable files, such as .deb files on Linux systems. .deb files contain installable packages, and if they come from untrusted sources, they could potentially contain malicious software that could damage your system or compromise its security.
The warning does not necessarily mean that the file you are downloading is dangerous, but rather that you should be careful and make sure it comes from a trusted source. It is important to verify the authenticity and provenance of the file before installing it, especially if you are not downloading it from the official repositories of your Linux distribution.
You can also upload it to to check its Reliability to:
When you right click on the deb you should see an option in your file manager to install deb, this on MX Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, but if not in your distro, search on the web how to install deb files.
These are the symbol fonts required by wps-office. They are used to display math formulas. Since the official download is no longer available I uploaded the file to GitHub:
🔹 For debian based Linux:
🔗 https://github.com/wachin/ttf-wps-fonts/releases/download/1.0/ttf-wps-fonts_1.0_all.deb
🔹 For rpm
🔗 https://github.com/wachin/ttf-wps-fonts/releases/download/1.0/ttf-wps-fonts-1.0_all.rpm
🔹 For others Linux
🔗 https://github.com/wachin/ttf-wps-fonts/releases/download/1.0/ttf-wps-fonts_1.0.tar.gz
download the tar.gz file and extract it with right clic "Extract here", then copy the folder to:
📂 .fonts
If this folder does not exist create it. To see hit Ctrl + H to show hidden directories.
To work fine this WPS Office Chinese version neet the following fonts:
- batang.ttc
- gulim.ttc
- simfang.ttf
- simhei.ttf
- simkai.ttf
- simsun.ttc
- simsunb.ttf
📥 Download it from GitHub:
🔗 https://github.com/wachin/wps-office-all-mui-win-language/releases/download/v11.1.0.11704/wps-office-cn-fonts.7z
download the .7z file and extract it with right clic "Extract here", then copy the folder to:
📂 ~/.fonts
If this folder does not exist create it. To see hit Ctrl + H to show hidden directories.
This is necessary for special characters like accent marks on Spanish language to can be written, If you need, install with:
sudo apt install im-config ibus ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3In some more modern Linux the following package goes
ibus-gtk4📌 After installed: RESTART YOUR COMPUTER
The MUI (Multilingual User Interface) allows you to change the language of WPS Office Linux
📥 Download from GitHub:
🔗 https://github.com/wachin/wps-office-all-mui-win-language/releases/download/v11.1.0.11704/mui.7z
After downloading the .7z file, unzip it and copy it to the following location:
📂 ~/.local/share/Kingsoft/office6
This folder is hidden. To show it, press Ctrl + H in your file explorer.
📌 This MUI contains:
Chinese (China)
English (USA)
English (United Kingdom)
French
French (Canada)
German (Germany)
Indonesian
Japanese (Japan)
Polish (Poland)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian (Russian Federation)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Spain)
Install spell checking dictionaries
📥 Download from GitHub:
🔗 https://github.com/wachin/wps-office-all-mui-win-language/releases/download/v11.1.0.11704/dicts.7z
After downloading the .7z file, unzip it and copy it to the following location:
📂 ~/.local/share/Kingsoft/office6
📌 This dicts contains the follow languages:
af_ZA African (South Africa)
be_BY Belarusian (Belarus)
bg_BG Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
bn_BD Bengali (Bangladesh)
bs_BA Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
ca_ES Catalan (Catalonia)
cs_CZ Czech (Czech)
da_DK Danish (Denmark)
de_DE German (Germany)
el_GR Greek (Greece)
en_AU English (Australia)
en_GB English (United Kingdom)
en_US English (United States)
es_AR Spanish (Argentina)
es_BO Spanish (Bolivia)
es_CL Spanish (Chile)
es_CO Spanish (Colombia)
es_ES Spanish (Spain)
es_MX Spanish (Mexico)
es_PR Spanish (Puerto Rico)
fr_FR French (France)
gd_GB Scots Gaelic (Great Britain)
gl Galician (strict Volga)
gu_IN Gujarati (India)
hi_IN Hindi (India)
hr_HR Croatian (Croatia)
hu_HU Hungarian (Hungary)
id_ID Indonesian
is Icelandic
it_IT Italian (Italy)
km_KH Khmer (Cambodia)
lt_LT Lithuanian (Lithuania)
ms_MY Malay (Malaysia)
nb_NO Norwegian (Norway)
ne_NP Nepali (Nepal)
nl_NL Dutch
pl_PL Polish
pt_BR Portuguese (Brazil)
pt_PT Portuguese
qu_EC Kichwa (Ecuador)
ro_RO Romanian (Romania)
ru_RU Russian (Russia)
sk_SK Slovak (Slovakia)
sl_SI Slovenian (Slovenia)
sq_AL Albanian (Albania)
sr Serbio
sv_SE Swedish (Sweden)
sw_TZ Swahili (Tanzania)
tr_TR Turkish (Turkey)
uk_UA Ukrainian (Ukraine)
vi_VN Vietnamese (Vietnam)Checking the language switcher button:
- Open WPS Office
- Click "New Tab"
- Create a new document (Presentation, Excel or Document)
- The first time when you open the language switcher there is only two available:
The program has a file with incomplete code in:
📂 /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/mui/lang_list/lang_list_community.json
To fix this, first backup the original file with the following command in the terminal:
sudo cp /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/mui/lang_list/lang_list_community.json /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/mui/lang_list/lang_list_community.json.backupthen replace the file with the one with the complete code:
wget -c https://github.com/wachin/wps-office-all-mui-win-language/releases/download/v11.1.0.11704/lang_list_community.json && sudo cp lang_list_community.json /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/mui/lang_list/
📌 What does this command do?
- Download the corrected file to your HOME folder.
- Then, it will ask you for superuser permissions to copy it to the correct location within the system.
If you want to review its content before installing it, copy the line before && and paste it into a terminal and the file will be downloaded and you can open it with a text editor to review it, then use the full line.
For this fix to be visible you need to restart WPS Office (open and close it), and then you will see the other available languages:
On some Linux distributions that use libtiff6 instead of libtiff5, such as:
MX Linux 23 (Debian 12 based)
🔗 packages.debian.org/libtiff6
Ubuntu 24.04
🔗 packages.ubuntu.com/libtiff6
to save to PDF check if you has the package libtiff6, and if this is not true, install this with:
sudo apt install libtiff6
and is necesary create a symbolic link to simulate that this versión is libtiff5, to do that copy and paste in a terminal:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5
give Enter and Restart WPS Office, and try again.
📌 Why is this step necessary? WPS Office looks for version libtiff5, but on newer versions of Linux, only libtiff6 is available. This command creates a symlink that makes the system "trick" WPS Office into using the available version.
If any of you are wondering where I got the dictionaries and MUI from, it is in the following explanation, which although it has images in Spanish I think you should be able to understand it:
Where is the files under PlayOnLinux
🔗 https://github.com/wachin/wps-office-all-mui-win-language/blob/master/src/PlayOnLinux's%20virtual%20drives/Where%20is%20the%20files%20under%20PlayOnLinux.md
and read:
Where is the files on Windows 8.1
🔗 https://github.com/wachin/wps-office-all-mui-win-language/blob/master/src/C_Windows8.1/Where%20is%20the%20files%20on%20Windows%208.1.md
This version is possible not working on Linux from 2024, I tested fine in:
- MX Linux 17 (Debian 9 Stretch)
- MX Linux 19 (Debian 10 Buster)
- MX Linux 21 (Debian 11 Bullseye)
📌 Note: Mx Linux is based on Debian.
you can see the debian releases time in:
🔗 https://www.debian.org/releases/
📌 Note: WPS Office 2019 Linux 11.1.0.8392 (64 bit) also would be working fine in:
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 20.04
📥 WPS Office 64 y 32 bit + ttf-wps-fonts
🔗 https://mega.nz/folder/WhdGUCbD#AScUhE8HB_GI457CW2n3FQ
📥 64 bits
🔗 https://t.me/PFSLEE/17
📥 32 bits
🔗 https://t.me/PFSLEE/16
📥 ttf-wps-fonts
🔗 https://t.me/PFSLEE/18
📌 Note: You need extract the content with right clic and then extract here.
Now install the deb according to your architecture and ttf-wps-fonts
To install WPS Office 11.1.0.8392 (32 or 64 bit) this working fine en:
📌 is compatible with:
- MX Linux 19 y 21
- Debian 10 y 11
- Ubuntu 20.04
To install it you need to follow some of the steps mentioned above:
- Install ttf-wps-fonts
- Install Chinese fonts
- Install MUI (Multilingual User Interface) and dicts
- Install the Fix language selector
Instala fuentes adicionales
In you need Windows Fonts for your Documents:
https://github.com/FSKiller/Microsoft-Fonts
install it with:
git clone https://github.com/FSKiller/Microsoft-Fonts ~/.fonts/To delete the .git folder and free up space, simply run the following command in the terminal:
rm -rf ~/.fonts/.gitThis will remove the repository history and turn it into a normal folder with no traces of Git. Now you will only have the source files without the repository information. 🚀
Here is an review of some monospaced fonts working on WPS Office Linux, the entry is on spanish language but use the button "Translate":
Mono fonts in WPS Office are not aligned
https://facilitarelsoftwarelibre.blogspot.com/2022/05/problema-con-las-fuentes-monoespaciadas.html
I18n ibus
https://wiki.debian.org/I18n/ibus
WPS Converting to PDF error
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/17ehukn/wps_converting_to_pdf_error/