OpenOffice.org 3 officially released

[ssam]

Yes I know people have been pulling it of the FTP servers for a few days (or getting it from the PPA). but now its official

http://www.openoffice.org/news/index.html

new features
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/

I think it is too late to get into intrepid, but it might appear as a backport, or you will be able to get it from a PPA.

Digg it (http://digg.com/software/OpenOffice_3_officially_released)

[kagashe]

PDF Import Extension
Can I add it to existing OO 2.4? How?

kagashe

[zmjjmz]

I'll wait for the update in Ubuntu, don't feel like manually installing thins right now.

[Martje_001]

Keep in mind that Ubuntu only provides secuirity updates. If you want OO.o3 you have to upgrade.

[ssam]

PDF Import Extension
Can I add it to existing OO 2.4? How?


No. it only works with OOo 3. I assume that there are new features needed to make it work (but it might just be a version check in the plugin to 'encourage' people to upgrade)

[forrestcupp]

Keep in mind that Ubuntu only provides secuirity updates. If you want OO.o3 you have to upgrade.

Unless you enable your Proposed and Unsupported update repos, which is risky, but a lot of times worth it.

[fatality_uk]

OOo site dead here. Same for anyone else?

[ssam]

OOo site dead here. Same for anyone else?

i assume because it is on the front page of slashdot. Though Sun really should be able to handle it.

[forger]

The site says '403 forbidden' :(
Released on my birthday :D

[wersdaluv]

How do I install it on Hardy?

[jocose]

Yay! Great to see it released on schedule.

[forger]

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.openoffice.org/stable/3.0.0/

The torrents are alive thankfully :)
http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~mike/oo/bt.rss

64-bit: http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/torrentphp/torrent.php/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz.torrent

32-bit: http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/torrentphp/torrent.php/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz.torrent

[Ms_Angel_D]

I'll wait for a deb file ;)

[kagashe]

I'll wait for a deb file ;)It is available.

kagashe

[Martje_001]

openoffice.org is down :(. O well, I'll wait for tomorrow ;)

[stokedfish]

Intrepid 64bit deb files? Anyone?

[SuperSonic4]

Hmm, what version have I been using in mandriva up to now? It came with OO.o3 but still good to see *goes to check updates*

[GOROSSI]

here a some mirror links for anybody who wants them
http://openoffice.mirrors.tds.net/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/

and my ISP
http://openoffice.virginmedia.com/stable/3.0.0/

Debs are avaliable on both but not that straightfoward to put in i would suggest a VM test first which im doing later

[le_vainqueur]

how long does it typically take for a new OOo version to get into the repos?

[GOROSSI]

how long does it typically take for a new OOo version to get into the repos?

Probably not till jaunty jackolope (9.04) unless someone does a backport repo which their is a good chance of happing.

[le singe]

If I install the deb file, will it install onto my existing openoffice 2.4, like an update, or do I need to uninstall the version I have first?

and is it best to install things through the repos.... well I guess, but I mean will it complicate future updates that may be in the repos later? I'm still a bit new to Linux and Ubuntu and I don't totally understand all of the different ways of installing/extracting programs.

[71CH]

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.openoffice.org/stable/3.0.0/

The torrents are alive thankfully :)
http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~mike/oo/bt.rss

64-bit: http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/torrentphp/torrent.php/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz.torrent

32-bit: http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/torrentphp/torrent.php/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz.torrent

Ok
So I downloaded this but how do I install it? I'm running oo2.4 right now. Thanks.

[GOROSSI]

it leaves the 2.4 install alone v3 is installed to the opt dirctory i installed from this guide http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/11/test-drive-openoffice-3-release-candidate-1/ runs fine

[le singe]

If you download the deb file that might be easier to install. I think tar files requiring extracting, while debs can be opened and the program will install itself.

However, I have the same question as you about already having openoffice 2.4 - can we just install and the new version acts as an update?

[GOROSSI]

It installs alongside 2.4 you can use both 2.4 and 3 sorry should have made it clearer see the link to the guide above

[GOROSSI]

Been having a go with it and it seems quite a bit faster than 2.4

[le singe]

Been having a go with it and it seems quite a bit faster than 2.4

Thanks for the link to that guide, I'm looking at that right now.

Just one quick question... since I'm not installing this by way of the repositories, if I want to uninstall it I won't be able to use add/remove or synaptic, will I? Are there simple ways to do clean, complete uninstalls with terminal commands?

[CaptSaltyJack]

I don't think you can uninstall OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu. It wants to remove ubuntu-desktop. ;) Not a good thing.

[kernelhaxor]

how come it doesn't ship with Intrepid? or does it?
how long before its in the repos?

[CaptSaltyJack]

how come it doesn't ship with Intrepid? or does it?
how long before its in the repos?

I'm gonna take a slightly educated guess and say it's not shipping with Intrepid because Intrepid is due out in 17 days.. maybe not enough time to fully test OpenOffice 3.0 and get into the repository??

[snowpine]

They've been working on Intrepid for about 6 months, and OO 3 just came out today, so there's no way it will ship with Intrepid. :) It will presumably be part of Jaunty Jay.

(edit) Turns out intrepid package freeze was Aug 28: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseSchedule

[Polygon]

gimp 2.6, vlc 0.9.2 all came out past the feature freeze, and they were included as exceptions. I hear that open office 3 will be included in inrepid as well since the 2.x.x line won't be supported anymore (as in updates and stuff)

[keiichidono]

OOo 3.0 is supposed to be in Intrepid no matter what so it'll be there for release.

[RATM_Owns]

I just downloaded the DEB files, and in terminal did:

sudo dpkg --install *.deb

I dunno if anyone else thought of that yet.
If anyone didn't, I'm a genius. :P

[andrewabc]

Yay! Great to see it released on schedule.

It was supposed to be released a month ago. So it was not on schedule.
For the past month they pushed back release every week until all the critical bugs were fixed.

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease30#OOo_3.0_Final
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ReleaseStatus_Minutes#Agenda_for_next_meeting

[CaptSaltyJack]

I just downloaded the DEB files, and in terminal did:

sudo dpkg --install *.deb

I dunno if anyone else thought of that yet.
If anyone didn't, I'm a genius. :P

What are you saying? That using this method will install all the packages in the proper order to avoid dependency errors??

[RATM_Owns]

I think.
At least it worked for me.

And I just noticed that you could run "sudo sh update" to update. :P

[fballem]

What are you saying? That using this method will install all the packages in the proper order to avoid dependency errors??

Almost - there is a subfolder that also contains a .deb.

If you un-install open office 2 first before installing Open Office 3, then the appropriate application starters will show up in the Applications | Office menu.

FYI - for obvious reasons, the open office site is flooded.

[Technoviking]

I don't believe OOo 3.0 made it in time. May be a backport or available in a unsupported ppa.

[Sinkingships7]

And now they're experiencing overload on their sites :lolflag:

[doorknob60]

It's been in the Arch repos for a few days :D Oh yeah and thier site's dead rofl, reminds me of when FF3 came out. I like it, although there's three things that really bug me about it...

1. Default inteface crashes and buggy, you have to set OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome to get it to work right, this happened to me in KDE4 and Openbox, although it's probably not needed in Gnome.

2. Doesn't work with dark GTK themes without hacky solution makign a sheel script to make the soffice command open it with an env variable that makes it load with clearlooks (or another working theme). http://www.rebelzero.com/fixes/openofficeorg-dark-theme-workaround-with-ubuntu-804/

3. Dropped support for KDE interface, and the gtk-qt-engine screws with the menu and toolbars, so you either gotta use the GTK port of Oxygen (it's on Gnome Look) for all your GTK apps (looks great if you use default color scheme and KDE theme, otherwise it's bad for other apps like Firefox), or use the hackish method like in #2. Non issue for me on this box because I use Openbox now.

Anyways, Gnome users I would expect should have none of these problems, so lucky you -.- I want a Qt4 interface, then I'll be happy :)

[klange]

All of those problems come from using a horrible GUI toolkit. They should just make a real GTK or QT port (*cough*GTK*cough*) and be done with it. It'd be more stable, look a thousand times better, run well with under QT, and just be more spiffy.

[doorknob60]

I'd be fine with either a GTK or Qt port, as long as it worked fine with qgtkstyle (for a Qt port) or gtk-qt-engine (for a GTK port). And the bug where it doesn't work with dark themes is it switching into some "high contrast" mode that can't be disabled and screws areound with things, especially Impress in some cases to the point where it's unusable (like sometimes images won't even show up). I belive it's a bug on their part. I don't really mind using Clearlooks for OOo though, even though it looks pretty bad, if I keep it maximized it doesn't have as much to clash with :-P And I don't use it all that much anyways. BTW I had this problem as long as I can remember with Dark GTK themes + any version of OOo.

[nezzo]

Is there a 64-bit version available? I couldn't seem to find one and the 32-bit i386 distro I downloaded complained during the install.

[stmiller]

Is there a 64-bit version available? I couldn't seem to find one and the 32-bit i386 distro I downloaded complained during the install.

Yes:

http://openoffice.mirrors.tds.net/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/

[jimjutte]

The link to Tombuntu worked very well for me. Thanks.

Cheers

[cardinals_fan]

Well, it's better than the monstrous 2.x series. But I'm still not a fan, and now that I've got equation editing working in Abiword, I don't need it.

[RiceMonster]

Yeah, it's in the arch repos, so I've been using it. I don't use office software too much though, so I haven't really noticed a difference. I'm sure there is a bunch, though.

[toupeiro]

So far, the load times and overall performance with 3 is drastically improved over 2.. Sun Microsystems continues to impress.

While I'm probably one of the few, I am glad they didn't go with a default "ribbon" toolbar as MS-Office did. I know its increased productivity for some. It would probably be nice to develop something on par with the ribbon so people can have a familiar experience between the two, but I could take or leave it personally.

[Scruffynerf]

Considering that the news broke on over the blogosphere and forums early, they probably didn't have time to get all their mirrors up.

And then they were dugg, slashdotted etc.

I managed to grab it from my ISP's mirror, however the extensions servers are also getting hammered.

I like it. Kudos to the Sun & OpenOffice devs.

[stokedfish]

Intrepid 64bit deb files? Anyone?


deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

;-)

[stokedfish]

I see it's RC4...sorry guys.

[damis648]

So, any news when this will hit the repos?

[artio]

I tried sudo dpkg --i *.deb on xubuntu 8.04 (after removing the gnome and kde integration packages) but get these errors:

dpkg: error processing ooobasis3.0-core04_3.0.0-9_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/program/libbasebmpli.so', which is also in package ooobasis3.0-headless
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

dpkg: error processing ooobasis3.0-core06_3.0.0-9_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/Office/Writer/Writer-javamail.xcu', which is also in package ooobasis3.0-emailmerge
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

dpkg: error processing ooobasis3.0-en-us-res_3.0.0-9_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/program/resource/upden-US.res', which is also in package ooobasis3.0-en-us-onlineupd

Has anybody seen this or know what this is about?

[Rolling Stones]

thanks

[beckerben]

I tried sudo dpkg --i *.deb on xubuntu 8.04 (after removing the gnome and kde integration packages) but get these errors:

dpkg: error processing ooobasis3.0-core04_3.0.0-9_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/program/libbasebmpli.so', which is also in package ooobasis3.0-headless
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

dpkg: error processing ooobasis3.0-core06_3.0.0-9_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/Office/Writer/Writer-javamail.xcu', which is also in package ooobasis3.0-emailmerge
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

dpkg: error processing ooobasis3.0-en-us-res_3.0.0-9_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/program/resource/upden-US.res', which is also in package ooobasis3.0-en-us-onlineupd

Has anybody seen this or know what this is about?

I also get this and have not figured out how to get it to complete. I had installed Beta 2 and it was working fine, but when i tried to install Beta 4 and now the official release, both of them failed on these. I'm on the intrepid beta, but had sane issue on 8.04 with beta 2.

[BigSilly]

For those of us who will be sticking with Hardy, will this turn up in the repository for us eventually too? Thanks.

[klange]

Well, it's better than the monstrous 2.x series. But I'm still not a fan [...]
True. It's a lot faster and lighter (on memory) than 2.x was. And that's a much-needed improvement. I'm not going to be switching to Abiword (though I have it and use it on occasion) as I still have MS Office using friends (and I use some features in OOo that have not even be started in Abiword yet).

[stokedfish]

The deb packages from the openoffice mirrors work fine on ubuntu intrepid 64bit. No problems here!

Starting up writer (or any other oo-component) is *so* fast now...great!

[eyeonus]

The deb packages from the openoffice mirrors work fine on ubuntu intrepid 64bit. No problems here!

Starting up writer (or any other oo-component) is *so* fast now...great!
Here's a link. (http://download.openoffice.org/other.html)

[Sef]

For those of us who will be sticking with Hardy, will this turn up in the repository for us eventually too? Thanks.


You would need to enable the backports. System > Administration > Software Sources > Updates > Check unsupported updates.

[samjh]

I think this has been mentioned before, but here it is again.

If you want to try out the official Ubuntu packages for OpenOffice 3.0, add the OpenOffice.org Scribblers PPA to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING REPOSITORY CONTAINS *EXPERIMENTAL* PACKAGES FOR OPENOFFICE 3.0. YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY CONSIDER THE RISK OF SIGNIFICANT INSTABILITY OR OTHER HARM TO YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE INSTALLING THE PACKAGES CONTAINED THEREIN.

More info on the PPA, including sources.list entry lines:
https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive

[xeros]

I think this has been mentioned before, but here it is again.

If you want to try out the official Ubuntu packages for OpenOffice 3.0, add the OpenOffice.org Scribblers PPA to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING REPOSITORY CONTAINS *EXPERIMENTAL* PACKAGES FOR OPENOFFICE 3.0. YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY CONSIDER THE RISK OF SIGNIFICANT INSTABILITY OR OTHER HARM TO YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE INSTALLING THE PACKAGES CONTAINED THEREIN.

More info on the PPA, including sources.list entry lines:
https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive

There were packages for Intrepid for a while but now there are empty dist files for Intrepid. How to get the package archive now? I don't like to download packages from openoffice.org webpage which install in /opt.