On Saturday September 22 2007 06:34 am, John Lovely wrote:
> Can anyone explain how to install OpenOffice 2.3 on Linux? (Ubuntu 6.10)
>
> OOO has had a "one-click installer" just like Windows forever but OOO
> 2.3 is a disaster!
>
> So far, I've downloaded the OOo_2.3.0_LinuxIntel_en_US_deb.tar.gz
> I've gunzipped it
> I've done a tar -xvf on the resulting tarball
>
> And now I've got a whole pile of debs (about 30) and a Readme with no
> installation instructions at all.
>
> Does anyone know how to install it from here?
>
> Am I supposed to dpkg all 30 debs, 1 by 1 or is ONE of the debs the MAIN
> deb that will start the install? If so, which one?
>
> Whatever happened to the OOO install executables that made linux
> installs as easy as windows?
>
> Thanks
>
> John Lovely
If you have the version that came with Ubuntu 6.10, you need to
uninstall it first. Here is what Hagar de *'Est wrote in an article,
"[Ubumtu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co." You will find it on the
www.8daysaweek.co.uk web site. Once you have removed any previous version
of OOo, skip to step #5. Use a terminal to do this, and make sure you are
in the directory which contains all of the debs.
The Ubuntu concept is that once a flavor is released, there is no update
for its content, except security issues. Therefore, once you stick to a
flavor (Dapper, Edgy, Feisty, ...), your OOo version is not updated. Basic
reason is : integration has been validated with this package, a new one
could mess the system.
But Ubuntu releases of OOo are known to be rather bugged, especially the
Feisty one (slideshow in Impress causes crash recovery systematically,
Base wizards freeze at the very end of the process among the most
'popular' bugs on the Ubuntu forums).
As OOo is released with RPMs (Ubuntu uses deb format, same as Debian), you
cannot install OOo directly but you need to convert the files to .deb
format.
Here is a method for all Debian based distros :
1. Remove all the packages from the installed version
Go to Synaptic or your package manager and mark all the openoffice.org2
packages installed to be removed. This is mandatory for your first upgrade
of the distro delivered OOo version, no need to to that for the next
upgrades.
For Ubuntu, the system will also remove the ubuntu-desktop package. No
worry, this is a meta package that can be removed safely. But in case you
want to upgrade your whole distro, you'll have to install back this
package (and the OOo original version).
2. Download the tarball (.tar.gz file) from the official OOo web site
See here : http://download.openoffice.org/index.html.
3. Extract the tarball in a directory
Open a terminal and :
Code:
tar -vxzf namefile.tar.gz
You should see a new folder, say ooo_inst_folder.
Go to the RPMS subfolder
Code:
cd ooo_inst_folder/RPMS
4. Convert the files with alien
Code:
sudo alien -d --scripts *.rpm
Note that the --scripts parameter is needed to avoid bugs afterwards
(lack of it doesn't prevent the installation).
NB: if alien is not installed, then:
Code:
sudo apt-get install alien
5. Install the created .debs
Code:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
6. Update the Gnome menu
To be adapted according to your desktop manager, see the content of the
desktop-integration subfolder.
Code:
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.#.#-#_all.deb
Here you are, menus should have been updated.
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OOo 2.2.1 / Ubuntu 6.06
Dan
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