Just before you start, you might like to consider installing the latest LibreOffice 5.2 directly from RPM packages, that are not part of the distribution you are using.As of nov-2016, CentOS and RedHat 7.2 comes with OpenOffice 4.3 . so if you are not interested in using this version and would like to install latest 5.2 independent LibreOffice 5.2 , please remove any openoffice packages you might have on your OS by issuing: