Install OpenOffice 3.0 Final in Ubuntu
[Updated: .deb packages also started showing up] OpenOffice 3.0 Final is all set to be officially released on Monday, October 13 but it has already been uploaded to many servers worldwide. As of this writing there is no .deb package available. If you can’t wait a couple of more days to get it installed in your Ubuntu box, here is a quick way to install it.
update: .deb packages started showing up. Install OpenOffice 3.0 final by issuing:
wget http://openofficeorg.secsup.org/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
tar -xvzf OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
That’s it!
1. Get the file. Either download it manually or get it from your Terminal window. OpenOffice 3.0 has been uploaded to different servers, you can find it in …/stable/3.0.0/ folder. You can get it by issuing one of the following commands:
wget http://openoffice.mirror.wrpn.net/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz
OR
wget http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz
OR
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz
OR
ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz
2. Untar it
tar -xvzf OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz
3. Get inside the folder
cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/RPMS
4. As of this writing, .deb package was not available so you need to install alien
sudo apt-get install alien
5. Convert all rpms packages to debs
alien -k *.*
6. Install OpenOffice
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
7. Now we need to add menu entries
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Insomniac_vampire Says:
do i need to remove old version before install version 3??
how to?
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ashokgelal Reply:
October 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am
@Insomniac_vampire:Yes! you need to remove old version. To remove old version:
sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*
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Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Joshua Says:
Thanks for the tutorial! I’m running into a problem though.. (using the updated commands)
joshua@SNKNGSHPS:~$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
[sudo] password for joshua:
dpkg: error processing *.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
*.deb
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Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Joshua Says:
I looked around the folder and found a DEBS folder so I ran this command:
cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS
after that, running the dpkg command works. You might want to add that in. You also might want to add “sudo” to the dpkg command just for the copy and pasters.
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Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Derek Hildreth Says:
Hey there…
Thanks for the quick updates and speedy tutorial on this. However, I think you’re missing one critical step in your .deb installation guide…
cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/
THEN you can perform the command…
dpkg -i *.deb
Thanks again for your guide.
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ashokgelal Reply:
October 11th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Thanks Derek & Joshua. I intentionally left ‘cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/’ part because I thought that was obvious. Anyways, I updated the post now.
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Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Claudiu Says:
Thank you very much for this post. I manage to remove the old OpenOffice 2.4 and install the 3rd version and I’m a newbie regarding to Linux.
Please excuse my poor English, greetings from Romania!
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ashokgelal Reply:
October 11th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
You are welcome Claudia. QuickTweaks.com is for someone like you, a newbie, who doesn’t want to read too much details but only wants a quick solution. Language doesn’t matter that much because it is idea that counts. BTW, me too is not from English Origin. I too don’t speak English that much. Keep coming back.
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Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Insomniac_vampire Says:
I too from Thailand. Not perfect english as well.
Thanks for great site
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Posted on October 12th, 2008 at 4:01 am
VGH Says:
Did everything as instructed.
wget http://openofficeorg.secsup.org/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
tar -xvzf OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
All went well and the packages did install. However I can find the shortcuts in the office menu. Am I missing something ?. How do I run the office programs ?. thanks
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VGH Reply:
October 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I meant that I did not find the shortcuts.
BTW - I uninstalled the previous OO before I installed 3.0 . thanks
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Posted on October 12th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
ashokgelal Says:
@VGH: You need to install desktop-integration package:
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
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VGH Reply:
October 12th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Thanks to you Ashok. That did the job.
You are being very prompt in your responses !.
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Posted on October 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
snugie Says:
thx for your tutorial instruction.. very helpfull..
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Posted on October 13th, 2008 at 7:48 am
scouser73 Says:
I followed the instructions, and it took a little while as I’m not used to the command line but it works perfectly. Thanks for a great guide.
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Posted on October 13th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
kenotz Says:
i’m a newbie at linux and this site is a big help.
i’m more interested in tweaking the appearance of my ubuntu box and i’d like to make it appear like your ubuntu box:
http://www.quicktweaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/openoffice3-300×187.png
any tutorial on this. kindly email it to me. tnx.
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ashokgelal Reply:
October 13th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
@kenotz: Read my previous post on making your Ubuntu box beautiful and productive:
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/10/02/ubuntu-810-beta-hits-beta-the-look-lets-the-fans-down-again/
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/09/27/gmail-weather-beauty-right-on-your-ubuntu-desktop/
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/11/three-little-things-to-make-your-ubuntu-desktop-beautiful-and-productive/
When all this done, you should get much more pleasing Ubuntu look. Don’t forget to send me a screenshot of your desktop, I’m going to publish all the screenshots send by the visitors.
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Posted on October 13th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
kenotz Says:
tnx a lot. i will surely do that.
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Posted on October 14th, 2008 at 6:52 am
UbuntuFan Says:
Which AWN theme is that? Looks beautiful…
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Posted on October 14th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
cory Says:
.docx files crash it, hard and fast. Then it attempts to recover the docx, which also crashes it. Not there yet, sorry.
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Posted on October 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Jesse Says:
Thanks for posting. Worked Great!
Does anyone know the Gnome Theme used as the screenshot?
thanks,
Jesse
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Posted on October 16th, 2008 at 9:17 am
zika Says:
hello,
until yesterday I was a happy user of OpenOffice 3.0 (Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10) on Amd64 machine and Intel32 laptop.
yesterday, after some ugrades, on two machines I have answered Yes to Cruft Remover’s question about removing uno-libs3 package. after that my OO is unusable.
I tried everything: update-ing, reinstalling from different locations and different files but no luck.
I’ve installed OOffice 3.0 bu adding ppa launchpad repositories (which are broken now) in Synaptic and by doing apt-get dist-upgrade.
now I am left without both versions, 3.0 wipped 2.* and 3.0 is gone due to my stupid answer to a controversial question.
is there any help or should I wait… what, update from Ubuntu or …?
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zika Reply:
December 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am
I waited until today for launchpad-repos to get back on-line. But in a forum thread I read that they will not and, instead, OO3 will apper in JJ. In the meantime I tried several places and several .deb files to reinstall OO3 with no {luck, success,…} Finally today I wrote
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$sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*
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and installed native OO2.4 via Applications->Add/Remove OpenOffice.org Suite and I’m at peace until JJ. Since I write everything in TeX and OO is just for crossover tasks and to accomodate my (let’s say) customers (statistical analysis) I am OK.
(In one of these forums a gyu attacked all of us that were impatient by saying that an application is always a part of OS. I do not completely agree with him but now I am a bit closer … Nevertheless, I learned a lot from tinkering with this these several days (27.11. to 01.12)
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Posted on November 27th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Cory Says:
Wow. I haven’t tried Intrepid yet, but if it has something called “Cruft Remover” that randomly removes packages, I don’t think I should. How could anyone think that was a good idea? Somebody with too much free time on their hands.
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Posted on November 27th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Johnny Says:
Thanks so much. It worked like a charm.
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 at 7:01 am
Hikari Says:
Thanks!~! Works perfectly. WIll be great if you include the desktop integration step in your post to facilitate the complete installation.
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Posted on December 20th, 2008 at 12:24 am