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dannybuntu · 1 year ago

Awesome. Downloading it Now! The only thing I care about right now is whether ooo 3 is faster. I hope it is!

inter4ever · 1 year ago

Hi

Thanks a lot for your efforts to help ubuntu easier to utilize the latest software. I would like to ask if the DEB on the site is also for ubuntu x64 build? If yes then are the steps the same?

Best Regards..

Mackenzie · 1 year ago

OOo has been able to read OOXML for a year now. Why is this considered a "new" thing for 3.0?

Scott Wegner · 1 year ago

Just installed OpenOffice 3 on my Windows machine at work for its native Microsoft Open XML support. Haven't played with it too much, but I'm excited to start. The OpenOffice website was down for much of the day yesterday due to the huge demand from the release. :)

GCG199 · 1 year ago

Thank you for this tutorial -- it has worked great for me!

ML · 1 year ago

Worked a treat, thanks!

Dave K · 1 year ago

Thanks, I got it installed.

How does one run it without uninstalling version 2?

I'm not sure what to run from the command line.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Thank you so much

Tom · 1 year ago

inter4ever:
There is a separate 64-bit deb package, but OpenOffice's temporary download page doesn't link to it. There's a link to a site with Bittorrent downloads that does have this package.

Dave K:
I've updated with post with the command to run OpenOffice:
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

shirteesdotnet · 1 year ago

I followed the steps 1 and 2, but there only remains Open Office 2.4 in my Apps. What would be the command to run OO3?

shirteesdotnet · 1 year ago

My bad... I hadnt updated your page in a couple of hours. Just saw your blurb about "/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice"...

WORKS GREAT!

Thanks

Rami Taibah · 1 year ago

I am getting this error...

/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/../basis-link/program/configmgr2.uno.so: undefined symbol: _ZN5tools20getProcessWorkingDirEPN3rtl8OUStringE

Can you help?

sehnsucht · 1 year ago

I didn't notice this in step 3:

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Note that this will remove the ubuntu-desktop metapackage, so don’t do this if you want to be able to upgrade Ubuntu to a new major version.
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How do I put that back. I'm quite keen to upgrade to 8.10 in a few weeks. Can I just reinstall that package again? Could you show me how - I'm a total linux newb - It's only been on my desktop for a few hours and it's a bit of a learning curve!

Cheers.

Tom · 1 year ago

sehnsucht:
You should be able to just re-install the 'ubuntu-desktop' package in Synaptic. This will re-install all the default Ubuntu applications.

Saman Sadeghi · 1 year ago

Tom,

If uninstalling Oo2 removed the ubuntu-desktop metapackage, couldn't we just add it back by using Synaptic? I'm not sure, so I thought that I should ask...

Scouser73 · 1 year ago

A really great tutorial, thanks, it's worked a treat.

Tom · 1 year ago

Saman Sadeghi:
You could, but re-installing the ubuntu-desktop metapackage would re-install OpenOffice and the default applications again.

Nikolas · 1 year ago

Thanks for all your help!
All configured and running with Oo3

Niels · 1 year ago

I have followed your fine guide, and everything seems to work. It's just ugly as hell.

I think it's because it is not integrated with Gnome, GTK og Nautilus - is this right? Both the icons, the rest of the theme and the file-dialog is very ugly.

robl · 1 year ago

thanks heaps, i spent a couple of hours trying to find some basic info to help install, this got me there in one command line, awesome.

loeppel · 1 year ago

Sorry, doesn't work for me, I get a

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'

:( - Just Opening a Text Document.

loeppel · 1 year ago

Just found a Workaround: http://www.nabble.com/-Linux--OOo3RC2-Installat...

sehnsucht · 1 year ago

Tom said, in October 14th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

sehnsucht:
You should be able to just re-install the ‘ubuntu-desktop’ package in Synaptic. This will re-install all the default Ubuntu applications.
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Thanks for your quick reply.

Hmm. I'm not sure I'd want to do that - sounds like I'd lose oo3 and perhaps other apps/configurations which I've changed since installing base Ubuntu, wouldn't it?

Mike · 1 year ago

Note that AFAIK those .deb packages are compiled for the Debian, not for the Ubuntu. So those packages might work on Ubuntu or those might not.

Tom · 1 year ago

sehnsucht:
Default applications that have been removed will be re-installed, and default applications that you have upgraded could cause problems. I wouldn't recommend it if you have a lot of these.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

I installed it using the same process on Hardy 64bit (got the AMD64 debs) and it runs fine. But synaptic refuses to work properly until it's uninstalled, always offering a partial upgrade, which is to remove all the OO3 components, to get synaptic working again.

tdmoore · 1 year ago

Loved the instructions and installed OOo 3. However, not sure how to get the menus to load.
If I click on Applications>Office> I see the new OOo3 there but after clicking on any of them nothing seems to load.

Can anyone assist here?

Running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, i386.

BTW: we use OOo at our office (Windows unfortunately) and it loaded fine and is considerably faster there than 2.4.x.

Thanks....

Runaway1956 · 1 year ago

Ahh, another of those wonderful learning experiences.... I unpacked the tar.gz, and from the console tried to run the upgrade script. No go. From Konqueror, I tried installing the individual .deb files. No go. Fooled around with Adept, Aptitude, apt-get and dpkg with no good results.

Googled Ubuntu and OOo3, and BINGO!! Your tut works perfectly, Tom. Thank you!

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Great Turtorial, using ooo3 now and by the way what theme is that ?

Thanks

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Outstanding! Thanks.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

I installed the 64-bit version without removing the older Ubuntu-provided version. I notice that the extension manager doesn't work at all unless I run OpenOffice as root. Also all the permissions for all the files are not set correctly using this method. I did a 'chmod -R root.root /opt/openoffice*' but I'm not sure this is the correct or most secure way to handle this.

kgas · 1 year ago

Thanks for this tutorial. I got a problem with the installation in Ubuntu 8.04. I uninstalled OOo 2.4 first and then installed OOo 3. Installation went smooth. No menus created in the Office applications. I opened the OOo 3 using the method given. Upto this stage all went ok. when I opened the calc application OOO 3 crashed, now rolling back to 2.4 version. I will try again as I have to complete some work.

Pyoter · 1 year ago

Super! Thanks! I have now new polish version :)

sehnsucht · 1 year ago

Tom,
Thanks - I've reinstalled my OS since my last post and gave this another go, only I left my old version installed so that I have no problems upgrading to 8.10 later this month.

I can start OO3 from the commandline, and my only problem now is knowing how to add OO3 to the menu where the previous versions currently live. There doesn't seem to be an obvious way of removing menu entries without deleting the underlying apps. I'd like to remove the 2.4 entries and add entries for 3. Is this possible?

Cheers.

patryk77 · 1 year ago

If you don't want to keep 2.4, there is a very easy way to upgrade in Intrepid (8.10)

Just go into System / Administration / Software Sources.

Under the Tird-Party Software tab, click Add and add the following line:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

OOo 3.0 is now available in the Update-Manager, and it will install all the dependencies.

Worked like a charm for me :)

Tom · 1 year ago

sehnsucht:
You can delete menu items with System->Preferences->Main Menu. Right click on an item and select Delete.

gigamyke · 1 year ago

Just a note that you can make the removal simpler by using the following command:

sudo aptitude remove ooobasis3.0-~n openoffice.org3~n

Aptitude is simply a higher-level interface to the package management system and the ~n simply matches anything.

Ramon · 1 year ago

You saved my life mate!!!Been trying for ages. Thanks a lot!!!

DrDaveHPP · 1 year ago

Lifesaver! I've been driving myself nuts trying to get this installed - your instructions worked first time. Thanks!

Shiva · 1 year ago

I got these errors after executing
"sudo dpkg -i ...../*.deb"


Setting up openoffice.org3-dict-en (3.0.0-9) ...
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!

Setting up openoffice.org3-dict-es (3.0.0-9) ...
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!

Setting up openoffice.org3-dict-fr (3.0.0-9) ...
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!



And this error on installing "openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb"


dpkg: regarding .../openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb containing openoffice.org-debian-menus:
openoffice.org-core conflicts with openoffice.org-unbundled
openoffice.org-debian-menus provides openoffice.org-unbundled and is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing /home/natesan/Desktop/OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing openoffice.org-debian-menus
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/natesan/Desktop/OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb




Pls help. Thanks

Shiva · 1 year ago

FYI I've Kubuntu 8.10 installed. and later downloaded JRE from sun.com

kgas · 1 year ago

After googling, I found a link, and the steps given, helped me to install OOo 3 smoothly in Hardy Heron (8.04.1). A work around for the ubuntu desktop keeping OOo 3 is also there.

http://www.rebelzero.com/ubuntu/installing-ooo-...

If any one got problem in installing OOo 3 in Hardy can check the above link. Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex release did not have OOo3.To install OOo3 in Intrepid Ibex softpedia has a nice post.

Thanks Tom,

ugm6hr · 1 year ago

Just to reiterate (as per previous poster) - in Hardy, using x64 .deb files (downloaded by Torrent), installing on top of OOo3Beta .deb has resulted in a broken apt.

Oh dear.

ugm6hr · 1 year ago

AMD64 problem sorted. Issue was with the Beta previously installed. Following solved that problem:
sudo dpkg -r ooobasis3.0-emailmerge ooobasis3.0-en-us-onlineupd
Then the command as above to install (if downloaded to Desktop):
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/*.deb

Seems to work OK - perhaps an edit to your How-to for those of us who followed your original How-to for the beta?

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Why not use the update script provided with

sudo ./update

???

LaneLester · 1 year ago

I had already installed OO3 in my new Ubuntu Intrepid system, but since I hadn't uninstalled 2.x the menu entries weren't installed. I used your command to uninstall 2.x and then your command to install the menu entries. The entries were created, but unfortunately without icons.

Icon location has always been a big nuisance to me. Yes, I know about /usr/share/pixmaps and /usr/share/icons, but a lot of the time, what I'm looking for ain't there.

tex · 1 year ago

thankyou so much, i'll enjoy it!!

jack · 1 year ago

Right on Patrik77...
worked like a charm for me too...
just add this line to your repos
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
and install from Synaptic...
it removed OOo2 completely, installed OOo3 and took care of the menus too... seamless install...
Bravo Patrik77

Gerard · 1 year ago

Thanx for the exploration report .. :-)

Another clean way to avoid removing the metapackages for future updates, is to change the file: /usr/bin/ooffice

Replace this line:
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice "$@"

With this one:
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice "$@"

Then all your menu links, point to OO3 as well as your extensions. And you can easily change back.

Regards,

Gerard

lohf · 1 year ago

I've installed OO3 in 8.04 and now I can't get sound to work in Impress :( I've read that this occurs because OO3 uses Java not Totem for media playback. Is there any way to change this or to work around it?

Fredo · 1 year ago

Removing all that packages can be achieved with a much shorter command. Just do this in the directory that contains all the debs:

sudo dpkg --purge $(for f in o*.deb; do echo $(dpkg -f $f Package); done)

BryanM · 1 year ago

I successfully installed OO 3.0 on Hardy from a DVD supplied by LinuxFormat magazine.
Only one problem the dictionary is USA. Is an English UK dictionary available?

Anonymous · 1 year ago

The read me of the package reports Gnome 2.6 or above as a REQUIREMENT.

I have gnome 2.22.3 in ubuntu 8.04. Is it safe to install this?

Alex · 1 year ago

Thanks! Worked great!

reswob · 1 year ago

Question, I left 2.4 installed, but I'd like to associate all my .odm, .doc, .ppt, etc with 3.0. How do I do that?

The choices in Open With -> Other Applications seems to point to 2.4.

Thanks

reswob · 1 year ago

Never mind. If anyone hasn't figured it out....

Right click on the icon to change (i.e. .doc, .odm., .odt, etc), choose PROPERTIES, then click the OPEN WITH tab, then the ADD button. Once in that window, at the bottom click "Use a custom command" and type /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice in that box. Click ADD. Then make sure the "soffice" radio button is clicked. Then click close. That extension is now associated with OOo3.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Thanks v. much tried a few sites but only yours has worked for me! Cheers!

Anonymous · 1 year ago

About a week ago an update for OpenOffice 3 was available (system notified), but when I go to update it states partial upgrade then failed to update because of problems with partial update.

Is anybody experiencing a partial upgrade issue?

Is there anyway to resolve it?

Geo · 1 year ago

Great tutorial :) Thanks.
Wondering when they are going to officialy release it for 8.04 :)

ubuntu x64 newbie · 11 months ago

thank so much, very simple and straight to the point, works great for me in Ubuntu 8.10 in x86_64

Scouser73 · 11 months ago

OpenOffice 3.0.1 is now out.

http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US