Install OpenOffice 3.0 inside your Ubuntu 8.10!

04. Nov, 2008 12 Comments


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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12 Responses to “Install OpenOffice 3.0 inside your Ubuntu 8.10!”

  1. Tim 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:42 am

    Correct usage if not running in a terminal for alt+f2: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

  2. Admin 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:43 am

    @Tim

    Thx for sharing the other method, really appreciate that.

  3. mymoen 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:43 am

    nice info… Really help me to understand .. thanks..

  4. John 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:44 am

    nice and simple. Thx for sharing.

  5. Robert D. Martin 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:44 am

    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.

  6. Admin 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:45 am

    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

  7. Sean 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:46 am

    that is what I have, no luck still. Do I have to uninstall open office first? I have OOo 2.4 on my system.

  8. XFM 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:46 am

    i have the same problem after i added the repo lines, i still can’t install open office 3.0

  9. wpoet 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:47 am

    @XFM
    Same with me. Seems like openoffice 3.0 got removed from the servers?

  10. Bantu Al 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:47 am

    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/

  11. wpoet 17. Dec, 2008 at 11:48 am

    @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?

  12. Василий Петров 06. Jan, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    Аднажды в студеную зимнию пору. Бродил Я по интернету. Наткнулся на пост. Понравилось очень! Респект выражаю! И даже закладки себе добавляю!