Howto: Openoffice 3 in Hardy Heron (8.04)

[RequinB4]

A note for this tutorial: if you are using a language other than English the exact commands that I post here won't work, but you can substitute for non-English file names.

This tutorial is written assuming you want to keep the 2.4 version on your box.

Step 1 - Download

Go to http://download.openoffice.org/other.html and download the file in your language (english) under the "Linux DEB" column. Save in your home directory.

Step 2 - Install

Open a terminal in Applications - Accessories - Terminal and run:

tar xvfz 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

Step 3 - Shortcut (If you don't wish to keep 2.4, remove 2.4 using synaptic and do the following instead: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...76&postcount=2)

Open your favorite text editor and copy, paste, and save the following as ooo3.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications/

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Terminal=0
Exec=/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice
Icon=ooo-template
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Office;WordProcessor
StartupNotify=false
MimeType=text/plain;
InitialPreference=5
Name=OpenOffice.org 3.0
Comment=Create and edit text, graphics, presentations, and databases in letters, reports, documents, and Web pages.
NoDisplay=false

Step 4 - Filetypes

Simply go to a .doc or .odt or whatever file in nautilus (the file manager), right click 'Properties' and click 'Open With'- 'Add' - 'Use custom command'

enter

/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

And press Add. The 'soffice' button should be already selected - select it if it isn't.

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That's it. Now you should open .doc and .odt files with OpenOffice 3.0 and you can open 3.0 by going to applications - Office - OpenOffice.org 3.0

[bluelightav]

I wouldn't use the suggested short cut (step 3) but instead

cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/desktop-integration

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Log out and in again and you have nice icons

[RequinB4]

Originally Posted by bluelightav I wouldn't use the suggested short cut (step 3) but instead cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/desktop-integration sudo dpkg -i *.deb Log out and in again and you have nice icons

I was going to put that but I recall reading somewhere it conflicts with 2.4 icons. True?

[bluelightav]

Originally Posted by RequinB4 I was going to put that but I recall reading somewhere it conflicts with 2.4 icons. True?

I removed OpenOffice 2.4 as I want to use 3.0.

[Vim]

The current version of OO is 3.0.1. I therefore replaced the first of the 3 commands of your step 2 with:

tar xvfz OOo_3.0.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

After I executed that command something like 20 or 30 lines scrolled by each, except the first one, beginning with:

000300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/DEBS/o.....

It seemed like the ending of each of the 20 or 30 lines was unique. The output then ended with a blank line, followed by:

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I would appreciate any suggestion as what to do next.

[Roanoke]

Or you could just add the open office ppa