Installing Openoffice 3

**Fass** · October 22nd, 2008

Originally Posted by Teamgeist

For Intrepid the PPA from calc might be better.

For those who are running Intrepid, in order to use them, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

Code:

#Calc's Open Office PPA
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

Then just run the update manager and upgrade to Open Office 3 (or, you know, do your command line magic with apt-get/aptitude or whathaveyou).

Edit: Though it may seem that the PPA has a Hardy version as well, if I am browsing correctly. In which case just replace "intrepid" with "hardy" in the above lines.

**jbg7474** · October 22nd, 2008

Originally Posted by Fass

For those who are running Intrepid, in order to use them, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

Code:

#Calc's Open Office PPA
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

Then just run the update manager and upgrade to Open Office 3 (or, you know, do your command line magic with apt-get/aptitude or whathaveyou).

Edit: Though it may seem that the PPA has a Hardy version as well, if I am browsing correctly. In which case just replace "intrepid" with "hardy" in the above lines.

Doesn't seem to work with hardy--updating doesn't indicate any packages available for upgrade. Also, the package sizes are much different than the ones in intrepid (too small). My guess: these are placeholders for a future available upgrade for hardy.

**Fass** · October 22nd, 2008

Originally Posted by jbg7474

Doesn't seem to work with hardy--updating doesn't indicate any packages available for upgrade. Also, the package sizes are much different than the ones in intrepid (too small). My guess: these are placeholders for a future available upgrade for hardy.

Thanks for trying anyway, I would have checked myself, but I don't have a Hardy install left.

**DJ_Peng** · October 22nd, 2008

Originally Posted by Fass

For those who are running Intrepid, in order to use them, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

Code:

#Calc's Open Office PPA
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

Then just run the update manager and upgrade to Open Office 3 (or, you know, do your command line magic with apt-get/aptitude or whathaveyou).

Edit: Though it may seem that the PPA has a Hardy version as well, if I am browsing correctly. In which case just replace "intrepid" with "hardy" in the above lines.

Actually if you look at the list of packages on the PPA page it only says "Intrepid" under Series, which means there's only packages for 8.10. And then there's the info at the very top of the page:

PPA for OpenOffice.org Scribblers

URL: http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu

OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 - INTREPID ONLY

Those last two words should have been a tell: There's no packages for Hardy in that PPA at all. Sorry.