Open Office 3.0 final officially announced; expect a record downloads
The packages were already started showing up a couple of days ago and I’d covered a quick way to install Open Office 3.0 final in your Ubuntu box. I can’t say it for sure, but those packages don’t seem ‘final’ for me but only a snapshot. As expected, Open Office 3.0 has been officially released today and they are having problems to cope with the high downloads demand. The official site is down (literally) and only a plain page appears with a couple of links for downloading the packages. This is what they have to say:
Apologies - our website is struggling to cope with the unprecedented
demand for the new release 3.0 of OpenOffice.org. The technical teams are
trying to come up with a solution.
All this means Open Office 3.0 is all set to create a new record downloads and it deserves for that.
If you want to get your hand on this great free software, here it is how:
wget http://ftp.spnet.net/openoffice/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 into DEBS directory and issue the following command:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Now we need to add menu entries
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
