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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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ashokgelal — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:28:37 +0000

If you are like me who often likes to test one of the thousand applications available for Ubuntu and like to keep track of whatever you install or remove, here is a script for you. This script, tapt, tweets whatever you install, remove or perform other operations with ‘apt-get’ in Ubuntu to your Tweeter account.
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Install MS Office 2007 in Linux

ashokgelal — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:10:44 +0000

Though there are many alternatives for MS Office, no doubt MS Office 2007 is a winner. If you want to install MS 2007 in Linux follow these steps:

Install Wine
Select Applications>Wine>Configure Wine to bring the Wine Configuration dialog box.
Select Windows Version as Windows Vista from the Applications Tab
Override two dll files rpcrt4.dll and msxml3.dll from Libraries tab. Override them to be Native (Windows)
Download rpcrt4.dll file. Click here and save it on your desktop.
Open the c_drive from Wine menu
Delete rpcrt4.dll and msxml3.dll files from Windows/System32 directory.
Copy the downloaded rpcrt4.dll file into Windows/System32 directory
Download msxml3.msi file from Microsoft download site (here is the direct link for your convenience).
Install msxml3.msi file from the Terminal window by issuing msiexec /i msxml3.msi
Double click on setup.exe file from your MS Office 2007 installation CD. If it doesn’t work just type wine setup.exe from the Terminal window.
Follow the normal installation procedures.

Watch the step-by-step video:

Click here to view the embedded video.

UPDATE: Before you install Office 2007 don’t forget about winetricks. It might help to resolve many issues. Just go to http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks, copy the text (codes) in a file winetrick. From the terminal window type sh winetricks. Check all the msxml stuffs and click install.

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Install Bulky Linux Distribution Without Burning a CD

ashokgelal — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:41:28 +0000

This tutorial is about installing Fedora Linux without burning a CD/DVD.

Scenario/ Assumption:
1) You have Microsoft Windows
2) You have your system drive as C: (No matter whether it is FAT or NTFS)
3) You have Fedora .ISO files in the root directory of some partition (the partition must be FAT!)
4) You need to have a program that can open up the .ISO files. You can use free file archiver. 7zip works great. In this tutorial I am using Winrar.

Steps:

Go to C: drive and create a directory; name it boot
Open the .ISO file with Winrar. Inside isolinux directory, you will find two files: initrd.img and vmlinuz. Extract these two files to boot directory you have created in step 1 above
Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos to download grub4dos. This is required to boot grub from dos.
Extract the contents of grub4dos. Rename the directory to grub and copy it inside boot directory.
Inside the grub directory, you will find two files; grldr and grldr.mbr. Copy these two files to your C: root directory
Open boot.ini file which contains the boot information for Windows. You need to enable Show Hidden Files and Show System Files to view it in C: root directory. The easiest way is to type C:\boot.ini in the Run dialog box.
Type C:\grldr=”Start GRUB” at the bottom of boot.ini and save it.
Open menu.lst file with Notepad which is inside C:\boot\grub directory and type the following lines at the bottom:
title Install Fedora Linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img
Save the menu.lst file and restart your computer.

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