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Open Office 3.0 final officially announced; expect a record downloads

ashokgelal — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:19:37 +0000

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

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Install OpenOffice 3.0 Final in Ubuntu

ashokgelal — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:15:15 +0000

[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

wget http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz

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

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Fixing XServer After Hardy Updates

ashokgelal — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:12:14 +0000

Since I loaded Hardy into my system a month ago, it has been my routine job to fix xserver after nearly every updates. After many desperate attempts to fix the things, I’ve found a way to fix it. I don’t claim that whatever I’ve done should work for others but it is better to give it a try once rather than ending up with reinstalling Ubuntu. Here is what I do:

I always backup my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to something like /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bckup
When something is broken, I often find that my xorg.conf file has been modified. To find out whether there is any modification, I issue:
stat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
If there is any, I list the changes:
diff /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bckup -y –suppress-common-lines
I then undo the modifications. Those who aren’t comfortable with command lines can try meld. It is a graphical frontend for diff command. It couldn’t be more easier to merge/remove changes in two versions of same file. It is in the Universe repository so you should get it by issuing:
sudo apt-get install meld
After the modifications have been undone, I restart Hardy. Most of the time I get my xserver fixed with everything working fine – color depth, screen resolution etc.
If restarting the system does nothing other than greeting with that dialog box – Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode, then i try to reconfigure xserver by issuing:
sudo dpkg reconfigure xserver-org
It will ask you a couple of questions, clicking on default option will be OK
After it gives a ’successful’ message, time to restart. I can see the changes immediately – login screen spanning to my whole screen.
I need to enable the drivers for my card by going to System>Administration>Hardware Drivers
Finally, enabling my nvidia card, restarting once again and going to System>Preference>Screen Resolution to set the correct resolution, gives my pretty looking xserver back again.
The next important task is to create the backup of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file again.

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