Cooking With Linux

Here are the steps that I took to install OpenOffice 3.01 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

I created this step by step following the information provided by Stéphane Gaudreault at http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2009/02/19/installing-openofficeorg-3-...

Go to Stéphane's blog for information on files to download in other languages and 64 bit versions.

My steps are composed using the methods and corrections found on Stéphane's blog.

Merci Beaucoup Stéphane!!!

Activate terminal.

1. download the openOffice 3.1 file
wget http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Office/OpenOffice.org/stable/3.0.1/OOo_3.0.1_Lin...
#for other versions / languages go to http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2009/02/19/installing-openofficeorg-3-...

2. make a new directory and copy the downloaded .gz file to it

3. Delete the old OpenOffice
sudo apt-get --purge remove openoffice.org-core

4. Delete the parameter folder of OpenOffice in the home folder like this:
sudo rm -rf ~/.openoffice.org

5. Go to the location of the downloaded file and extract it
tar -xvmf OOo_3.0.1_Linux*_install_*_deb.tar.gz

6. We then proceeded to the installation from the DEBS folder:
cd OOO300_m15_native_*/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

We are done.