This tutorial will explain how to install latest version of openoffice in ubuntu
You can check what is new in openoffice 3.2 from here
First go to the OpenOffice website and download the Linux .deb file (On your desktop)
1 -- Once you have done that, extract the .deb file,
OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
Run the following command from terminal or just right click select extract
tar xzvf OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
Then you'll see a file called OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483
2 -- You can remove the existing version of OpenOffice if you wish with this command:
sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*
3 -- Copy and paste OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483 onto the desktop then open Terminal and paste this command:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/*.deb
4 -- Then paste this command:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.2-debian-menus_3.2-9472_all.deb
Once you've done that you'll find OpenOffice 3.2 in Office.
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Thank you. I was looking for this.
Is this hopeless to wait for https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa update?
Thank you very much!!
Perfect!!!! Thanks a lot!
Did you also get error after you run any OO app regarding dialo.xlc ??
Thanks so much. Worked without any problems
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you.
What about already installed macros and toolbar modifications?
Do I loose them and need to reinstall them?
Thanks for sharing this!
Just one note, I HAD to remove OOo 3.1 in order for the last command to work – openoffice.org, openoffice.org-core and openoffice.org-common.
I wasted almost two hours trying to replace my OOo 3.1 with 3.2 — then I went in search of help. Within 15 minutes of finding this page, I did a smooth-as-glass uninstall/install and had verified all went well. Thanks for preserving my sanity! Life is good.
Thanks, it worked like a charm.
Thanks. Easy install without any problems.
just like Rob, i also had to uninstall OpenOffice 3.1 to get step 4 to work.
after uninstalling 3.1, 3.2 installed smoothly. my system is Linux Mint 8.
Thanks for the tutorial! Works great with Mint 8…
After
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/*.deb
I get this:
Setting up openoffice.org3-calc (3.2.0-12) …
Processing triggers for menu …
In file “/usr/share/menu/opera-widget-flash-video-downloader”, at (or in the definition that ends at) line 2:
needs=”X11″
^
Unexpected end of line.
Skipping file because of errors…
This is the content of “/usr/share/menu/opera-widget-flash-video-downloader”:
?package():
needs=”X11″
section=”Applications/Network”
icon=”/usr/share/opera-widget-flash-video-downloader/images/favicon.png”
command=”/usr/bin/opera-widget-flash-video-downloader”
HELP, please…
Thanks for sharing this installation process. Far easier than any I have used before!
SOLVED.
It was a problem caused by an Opera widget (Flash Video Downloader).
Removing it with Synaptic solved the problem.
Why did it happened? No idea whatsoever.
Thank you for the upgrade/install procedure. It went smoothly.
Thanks for that 🙂
worked like a charm. Tx.
I tried to install OOo 3.2 on Xubuntu using your above instructions but did not see the apps under “Office”. Do I need to change any commands, or is there are problem using 3.2 in Xubuntu? Thx
I extracted the deb file, pasted it on to desktop and after next command I get this:
root@user-laptop:~# sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/*.deb
dpkg: error processing /root/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/*.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/root/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/*.deb
any ideas?
I met exactly the same problem as “need help”.
All ideas welcome!
Check that you have the right language in the command you execute. For exapmle, I downloaded the Great Britain (en-GB) version so instead of
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/*.deb
put:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-GB.9483/DEBS/*.deb
changing US to GB.
thanks for tutorial..
the file open/save dialogs are not well integrated though…
No, the problem was not related to the language version. I have tested both the sv (Swedish) and en-US versions. Same “No such file” result in both cases.
I copied the file names from the desktop icon so spelling errors are not the reason.
Any suggestions?
Hi,
In following the above procedure I encountered the following errors:
1) On running
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.2-debian-menus_3.2-9472_all.deb
I encountered conflicts with openoffice.org-bundled and openoffice.org-common so I had to remove these packages, and
2) when I call writer from the command line,
openoffice.org3 -writer
I get the error
** (soffice:4028): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number
How can I get rid of it?
Regards,
bostjanv
Can someone help me. When I am about to extract the deb.tar.gz I found this from the archive manager:
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data–format violated
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Is there any solution on this?
Thank You.
open terminal and go in to your deb.tar.gz file location run the following command
tar xzvf yourfilename
After I run that command, I didn’t find a file, but a folder. And I can’t install OO from that folder. Any solutions?
Thanks.