Somehow, The Ubuntu Team has decided not to add the latest office products from Sun Microsystem. It’s because 3.0 release schedule has slipped quite a bit. Just like The Ubuntu Team has said in this site . Well, that’s not a big problem! I’m going to give you an easy method to install OpenOffice 3.0. Please do follow this simple tutorial.
1. Press alt+f2 button, and type : sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Add this following code:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
For hardy, just simply change the “intrepid” word into “hardy” .
3. Go to terminal, and type sudo apt-get update .
4. Go to the update manager, and update your OpenOffice 3.0.
Enjoy!
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Correct usage if not running in a terminal for alt+f2: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
@Tim
Thx for sharing the other method, really appreciate that.
nice info… Really help me to understand .. thanks..
nice and simple. Thx for sharing.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
Nice tip! It didn’t work for me though until I had made two separate lines
as above of the given address text within the sources list.
hello, please make the repositories line like this:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
close the gedit and try to re-load your repositories. hope it will work
that is what I have, no luck still. Do I have to uninstall open office first? I have OOo 2.4 on my system.
i have the same problem after i added the repo lines, i still can’t install open office 3.0
@XFM
Same with me. Seems like openoffice 3.0 got removed from the servers?
Yes, looks like the packages are gone for the moment…try this instead.
http://salomie.ro/tudor/2008/11/17/upgrading-to-openoffice-30-on-a-ubuntu-810-amd64/
@Bantu Al
Thanks Bantu Al, I found the http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US with the collection of installation packages.
I installed 3.0 from there. When I start the program (/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice), the ” Welcome to Openoffice” screen apears. However, the applications fonts are large, and the icons only partially appear. To refresh the screen and see all icons I have to click into the screen. It seems like something very strange is happening to the fonts, etc. Has anyone seen this behaviour?
Аднажды в студеную зимнию пору. Бродил Я по интернету. Наткнулся на пост. Понравилось очень! Респект выражаю! И даже закладки себе добавляю!