How To Install OpenOffice 3.0 in Ubuntu 8.04
Install/ Upgrade OpenOffice 3.0 in Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.04 comes with openoffice 2.x version, even after updating with apt-get you will only get the latest build of the 2.x version open office. In order to upgrade to the latest version of open office (which is the 3.0 version), you will have to uninstall the existing version of open office. download the latest verion and install it.
The installation process is as follows
1) Download the latest verion of Open office from the following site, http://download.openoffice.org/other.html. You will need to choose “Linux DEB” for ubuntu.
2) Once you have downloaded the installer (say OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz), you can extract the file to a temp folder say /home/krishna/Desktop/Office3Install/
3) Now having kept the setup files ready, uninstall teh existing verion of OpenOffice. This can be done using the command.
sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*
4) Now to Install the OpenOffice 3.0 Version navigate the folder where the files are extracted and run the following command
sudo dpkg -i /home/krishna/Desktop/Office3Install/DEBS/*.deb
5) Once the Installation is complete, you can add the OpenOffice 3.0 to the gnome menu.
sudo dpkg -i /home/krishna/Desktop/Office3Install/DEBS/desktop-integration/*.deb
Thats it, OpenOffice is upgraded now 
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Hi Krishna!
good post - only problem i had to do a screen capture to save the page for later reference. would be nice if you gave print support to the post. or atleast copy paste rights.
thanks anyway- got what i wanted using “snagit 9.0’s” text capture feature –;)
john bandaru
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