Comments on: How To install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:32:01 +0000

Thanks so much! I’m really new at ubuntu and this really hepled me a lot. No troubles here.

By: Manoj Bhataria

Manoj Bhataria — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:08:03 +0000

Your instructions worked well for Open Office 3.3 as well with some minor changes. Thank you

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:34:44 +0000

If you are looking for the files to run the program navigate to /opt/openoffice.org3/program the files you want to click on in that folder are sbase, scalc, sdraw, simpress, smath, swriter, or if you want an easy way to open OOo make a link on your desktop to soffice.

to make a shortcut on your desktop, not sure if this works in that piece of crap unity, open terminal and type:
gnome-desktop-item-edit --create-new ~/Desktop
then make your shortcut. for command choose browse and browse to:
opt>openffice.org3>program and click on the one ou want to make the shortcut for. I just used soffice . Make sure you don’t click on soffice.bin it won’t work. you can find icons in usr>share>icons>humanty>apps>48

By: miguel

miguel — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:15:03 +0000

the installation process went fine, but the package does not appear anywhere in the graphical interface. what to do???!!!

By: sumitra

sumitra — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:09:52 +0000

hi
i am not able to get it to download it on the desktop. it is automatically going to download file in home folder. i am using ubuntu 11

By: Anas

Anas — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:10:52 +0000

hey i installed open office just as like u mentioned above but now i cannot find it, where it is installed ?

i am using ubuntu 11.10 and i am new to it
i have checked in dash home and searched in home folder. there is no office installed in there atlesat there is no folder

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:19:15 +0000

Hey its gr8. thanks for help

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:20:39 +0000

Excellent - worked perfectly installing OpenOffice.org 3.3 on Ubuntu 9.10

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:30:33 +0000

Beautiful, works like a charm on 11.04. I did have to substitute the apt-get remove step for libreoffice*.* for this to work.

By: Joseph Bus

Joseph Bus — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:44:50 +0000

Thanks 4 Ur help…BUT…

I was left with 2 directories /etc/openoffice & /etc/openoffice.org3…

After Changing ownership & permissions I STILL CAN’T OPEN OpenOffice…

Appreciate letting me know what I need to do…
Thx again, Joseph

By: Audsbel

Audsbel — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:23:49 +0000

The universal Spell Checker has stopped working. Spell checking used to work in any browser and in just about every application such as GEdit, Leafpad, etc.

This has all stopped. Any way of restoring this without a full system re-install? I have a feeling this was obliterated using this command:

sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*

I assumed it only removed OOo 3.1, but that’s not correct. I’d appreciate an assist as I rely heavily on my spell-checker.

By: John

John — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:14:15 +0000

Awesome! These directions helped a ton! Follow them exactly. I’m also new and using that terminal is still a challenge. Thanks for allowing just a simple paste.

By: Selden

Selden — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:43:03 +0000

Thanks -- I think I avoided a few pitfalls with these instructions.

By: David Mc

David Mc — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:29:53 +0000

The desktop-integration install gave the following error under Ubuntu 9.10, but the main app(s) seemed to install fine.

dpkg: regarding openoffice.org3.2-debian-menus_3.2-9472_all.deb containing openoffice.org-debian-menus:
openoffice.org-common conflicts with openoffice.org-debian-menus
openoffice.org-debian-menus (version 3.2-9472) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org3.2-debian-menus_3.2-9472_all.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing openoffice.org-debian-menus
Errors were encountered while processing:
openoffice.org3.2-debian-menus_3.2-9472_all.deb

Any ideas or help here?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:46:15 +0000

I am a beginner using Ubuntu 9.1 (Karmic Koala)(GNOME V2.28.1) and these instructions worked perfectly as far as I can tell.Thanks!

By: Darko Delta

Darko Delta — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:01:47 +0000

Want work on Ubuntu 10.04 all OK except last command what to tipe for 10.04

By: Lester

Lester — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:51:28 +0000

Thank’s a lot, it work’s on eeebuntu 3.0!

By: Michael Struwig

Michael Struwig — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:48:05 +0000

Worked perfectly on Jolicloud (an Ubuntu-based netbook OS)

Thanks so much!

By: Av

Av — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:13:19 +0000

Thanks for the help……I have successfully installed open office 3.02 on my ubuntu 9.04

By: chuyang

chuyang — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:11:53 +0000

Thanks a lot. This is what I need.