Very easy to follow, thanks for the guide & the people who made the PPA

What about for 64 bit systems?

The guide was created on a 64bit system :) And also tested on a 32bit one

It's nice to see that you can do some extraordinary things without having to deal with terminal.

There's one thing missing: repository gpg signatures. They're kind of required these days...

Go back to Windows. We don't want your kind around here.

You don't need gpg signatures with PPA/Launchpad repositories...

It did not work here, only 2 packets were installed, should I uninstall v. 2.4 first?

Can this procedure also be used on 8.04? I found a howto for a fresh install on 8.04, but it seems to need a tedious uninstall procedure, when in the long run OOo3 is available for ubuntu officially.

Thank you very much for this pointer - it realy solved one of the heaviest probles i had with 8.10 beta!
Openoffice 2.4.1 is one of the worst if you want to copy/paste webpages with tebles inside OO! (just keeps crashing every time!)

This works very very very well under 3.0 - no crashes at all!

I have Linux Mint 5 and this does not work with it

Thank you very very very very very much. I spend 3 weeks to find something like that. I am a new linux user and its hard to install a program from konsole for meç. Thank you very much again and again.

"I have Linux Mint 5 and this does not work with it"

I tried it on my Zanussi Washing Machine and it didnt work on that either ..
Dear me ..

For kuba and BananaMan: It doesn't work because Linux Mint 5 is based on Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04)! It will work on Linux Mint 6

I like to do it from command line

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openoffice.list
add
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

It worked for me with the command line. (I don't know why it didn't work for me with the adding repositories.) I am relatively new to Ubuntu and Openoffice. Thank you very much.

Thank you dude. I test it when arrive at home

What kind don't WE want around here? The 'We' people who are antisocial and don't accept people different from themselves? Wow, I bet you're a KDE user!!!
(BTW, before I get flamed to death - that was a 'devils advocate moment' - the point here is to create choice, not to discriminate between available options right?)

I'd like to welcome Bill here, though I just feel that his presence creates animosity - and that suits Windows well I feel.

For Linux Mint 5, you should be fine by replacing

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

with

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main

and keeping all the rest of the instructions the same...

no more terminal YAY

Nix, that doesn't work, since there aren't packages in hardy ...

Worked a treat on Kubuntu Intrepid for me.

Thanks for the easy instructions!

Tried this - but does not show the 106 updates can be installed. Even tried manual update.

Thanks a great walk through. Simple even for a newbie to linux.

Mine said the packages are not authenticated. It's on a clean install of Ubuntu 8.10

For Anjanesh: It's not supposed to show 106 packages. That was just an example... it was tested with the Release Candidate of Ubuntu 8.10. Just update your system, forget about how many updates are :)

For Chris: Yes, it says that, but it doesn't matter... Just accept and update your system.

From those of us who is trying hard to USE Linux but are not strong in terminal instructions and have crashed the systems several times stuck in a terminal guide (Sometimes with a new install as a result of not knowing what we followed): THANK YOU MARIUS AND THE OTHER GUYS BEHIND THIS EASY SOLUTION.

To "Bill": You are one of the guys that makes a lot of effort wasted in getting Linux widespread. Think again when discriminating people and scaring potential users away by your arrogant "I need to brag with my Linux skills to feel alive". You are literally making a laugh out of the hard working contributers that wishes Linux to develop and be widely used.

Yep, this install worked great. I'm an ubuntu newb, so I'm still learning my way around the terminal. Thanks for posting this! I'm looking forward to checking out 3.0.

This is a great tutorial but after i finish installing, it doesn't update the icons. Also open office draw and new such applications are not found in the menu all together. Please advise, I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and yes I am a newb :-D

Thank you very much. I was very disappointed OO was not included in 8.10.

Thanks very much -- this worked excellent! I'm still pretty rough on command line stuff, much prefer GUI processes. Love 8.10 and OO3!

Mariuz, why would you open a command prompt just to open it with gedit, a graphical text editor? Don't brag about not knowing how to use a command line text editor.

Thanks, this makes it very simple

For newToUbuntu: It doesn't show Draw because it is not installed. Install it with Synaptic. As for the icons, mine are all updated :)

thanks worked great for another Linux n00b.

Help! Mine also says that it didn't authenticate some packages, including almost all of the openoffice ones. What should I do?

(At the beginning it told me I had to do a partial upgrade...)

Awersome, thanks ive been searching for this for ages :)

double ty

For Miriam: Try to change the download server, from the first tab of the Software Sources application, and try again. Forget about authentication, just hit the Apply button and install the packages.

Cheers for the review, worked perfectly on my clean install of Intrepid! ;)

This was really helpful. Thanks a lot

As with NewtoUbuntu, my icons are all the same, I realise it's a trivial problem, but I kind of like the new ones. Is there something that we can do. Thanks a lot, it was a great tutorial.

Excellent!
Many thanks for the information

Excellent tutorial ...
Pretty handy for any newbie ...
I've been using Hardy LTS + OO 2.4.1 quit while ... its very stable, but I believe Intrepid + OOo 3 soon also to be as stable as Hardy LTS.

New OO3 GUI Screen is awesome

Thx.

this is great! with this i was able to finally install opeoffice.org 3. i was trying to install from the package from their website does not work on ubuntu 8.10. It kept giveing me problems when i tryed to install from openoffice's site so i uninstalled open office to c if that helped. but it did not and then when i reinstalled it it had no theme so i went into the package manager and installed openoffice.org-gnome and openoffice.org-gtk

Excellent guide

10/10

Great guide. Thanks.

WOW! I've had awful trouble upgrading, but this tip made it a breeze! Thanks for that!

Thanks for the short good guide. !

beautiful!

Hi I am a complete newbie to Ubuntu and Linux. I think its great that someone made these instructions for installing Open Office. Would it be possible for it to be a stand alone install or update?
Cheers

Mikey

Thanks this worked great. I ran this on a virtual box (on xp) that I updated to 8.10 from 8.04LTS. Installed without issue and OO3 writer is running happily right now.

Thanks again!
Gus

So great mate...!
Have spent about 4 hours trying to figure out how to upgrade Ooo.

Cheers - Good on you

Thanks! I found this on google. And was up and running after 5 minutes. :-)

Thanks! I found this searching with Google. Great tutorial, right to the point. Keep up the good work.

This tutorial worked perfectly. Thanks so much for clear instructions that myself, as a novice Linux user, could follow easily. I now have OpenOffice version 3 on my Kubuntu 8.10 desktop.

Again, thanks for the help.....it was truly invaluable.

Rich Jones

I am new to Linux and Ubuntu. Your help is greatly appreciated. Very easy!!
Thank you.

I didn't get this to work on amd64 running in VMWare on OSX. Deleted the images already, so can't chase why... 32bit works tho...

super walkthrough - greatly appreciated. in fact the update took longer than the sources update!

many thanks from another member of the (growing) linux community

Why hardy (LTS) not have OpenOffice.org 3.0 from PPA? Like this LTS support from Canonical???

Doesn't work for me, I get this error.

Error authenticating some packages

It was not possible to authenticate some packages. This may be a transient network problem. You may want to try again later. See below for a list of unauthenticated packages.

openoffice.org-common
openoffice.org-style-human

Awesome job, thanks! I was trying to figure this out for a while :).

As said many times already...

Don't worry about authentication, just click apply

These repos are official PPA, no need to authenticate here

Thanks so much! I was afraid I was going to have to compile it from source, which I am horrible at. I know that using Kubuntu, things are slightly different when it comes to going to find where to add the third party source list, but it worked all the same. Thank you again! (Just recently, well, yesterday, upgraded from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10)
And its upgrading OO as I type. :)

use the command line and enter
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
this will prompt you to accept the unauth packages

Clear, concise, smooth. What an improvement over the RPM install for OOo3. Well-written easy-to-follow instructions like this are what will make Ubuntu a popular, desirable alternative to other OSes rather than a mysterious curiosity. Well done!

THANK YOU for this article! Lack of OOo 3.0 has been my only (very) small complaint about Intrepid Ibex (the first version of Ubuntu that has worked flawlessly and hassle-free on the hardware this Compaq Presario R3399CL). I'll be doing some Ubuntu/FOSS demos this weekend, so it will be great to have the latest version of OOo to show off.

thank you very much! that definetly did the trick. now I just need a way to install in on my linux mint partition but I'll probably wait till lm 6 final comes out, xiao! :)

But seems OpenOffice.org 3.0 have conflict with the language packages and will mutually uninstall!

Thank you!

What will happen when Ubuntu will officially support OOo 3?

Will the packages from the official Ubuntu sources clash with those from launchpad?

I think at least we'll have to remove
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
from the Sources list.

Freaking Awesome! ;-)
Seriously, in previous attempts to get Ubuntu working, upgrading to OOo 3.0 took some serious hacking at the packages, and broke a lot of the "meta packages" which depended on the as-released 2.4 version of OOo. To be fair, some of that was when 3.0 was still in Beta, which would make it hard to put in official repositories, but still, this procedure is a welcome relief!

Hi All

I have experienced a similar problem to some posters here. I have followed the instructions and got the same messages:

Error authenticating some packages

It was not possible to authenticate some packages. This may be a transient network problem. You may want to try again later. See below for a list of unauthenticated packages.

I clicked through and was told it was not possible to update all packages. I did this a few times until eventually the update maanger was reporting everything up to date.

However, starting OO results in the 2.4 splash screen coming up. Also, it is clear that the word processor is not v3 as there is no slider bar on the base of the document to increase/decrease the display size. (also reports itself as 2.4 on the "about" menu item.

I clearly have a problem still, and I wonder if the advice about clicking through is correct for all installations as it has not worked for me.

I also wonder if some people think they have v3 when in fact they still only have 2.4

May I recomend you look at the word processor and see if the slider bar is a the bottom of the document as its absence is the best giveaway that the upgrade has not worked.

As a linux newbie I would welcome any comments or help.

Very easy to follow, thanks for the guide

The change of the apt-sources.list is not the thing working for other versions as 8.10.
So I take you by the hand and lead you to the console process:
1. get .deb packages from http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US
(here you get all flavours i386 and amd64) and put in in a new directory maybe OOo3
2. change on the console to the directory where the archive resides, example:
cd ~/OOo3
tar xvzf [tab][tab] (press the tab key twice for autocompletition) and [enter]
3. change to the new direcory
cd [tab][tab] (I think you like autocompletition already...)
type
ls [enter]
here you get a list of files and directories inside. Switch to the DEBS directory and type:
sudo dpkg -i *
this command makes you root and installs the OOo3 suite.
You may start the suite by typing
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice [enter]

Runs? Hey, you`re a console junkie ;-)

4. Get a starter in your `Applications` list
right click to your applications tab
select change menu
select the office icon on the left (NOT the right!)
you get the applications list in this folder on the right
klick + add new item
name it OpenOffice3 if you like
command is
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice
close the menu-changer and you`re done.

You have now both versions installed to your system, if you want to uninstall OOo you may use the synaptic package manager or the console using apt-get remove.

Regars from Germany,
Steffen

Didn't work for me. It downloaded and installed 14 packages, but didn't update, I've still got 2.4.1

The above isn't working for me. When I refresh my sources I get a successful query of the "Release", but the "Package" and all other data are ignored (fail). When I run update/upgrade (in Adept, Synaptic, or CLI Aptitude) I only get OO 2.4.1.

I don't know if it's related, but manually browsing the package specifications here:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Release

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 6:22:52 UTC

shows that all sources/package-specs are empty. I don't really know much about the inner workings of apt, but it suggests to me that there are no instructions to tell apt how to install it.

In contrast, the same Release file for jaunty has loads of non-empty files.

Anyone know how to get this fixed? I don't know how to contact the package maintainers...

For me also it didn't work, update manager stubbornly sticks to 2.4.1

Guess i will have to wait
cheers

Same for me here...Ran this and command line apt-get and am still stuck with 2.41 even though I saw 3.0 download in update manager.

Running 8.10 64bit

Well new to VirtualBox and Linux so on steep learning curve. have installed Ubuntu 8.1 desktop (fresh install) and works OK. I just cannot get the upgrade for OpenOffice to 3.0 to work a described in this blog.

I have added the launchpad URL to the 3rd party software and it goes about looking at pacakages on closing but does not launch update.
If I manually launch update goes away and looks at "packages£ and then says the system is up to date. Does not offer any updates.

In the Sources >> third party software there is others archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner. IS this making a difference?
I have a download of Kubuntu to try and that has the same problem

Any ideas?

Paul
UK

There are some problems with the repository... please have patience ... it will be back soon (later today) with an updated version!

I'll post here again when it's up and running!

"The packages were buggy and crashed when openoffice.org-gnome was installed, they will be reuploaded when the bug has been resolved."

--> https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive

I tried several times installing OO3 with 8.04LTS with no success. I then upgraded to 8.10 and tried installing OO3 again and still didn't work. Everything goes as instructed until the update manager. The update manager never shows up in the tool bar. Tried manually updating with no help. So for now, I'm stuck at OO2.4. Looking for forward to a solution for this issue. Seems like the installation instructions have worked for several but not all.

OK, that might explain whats happened here.

I had added the deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu jaunty main to the Software Sources and got the update fine. However yesterday on bootup the update manager kicked in and listed updates to OO3 which I installed. After that OO wouldn't launch. I've uninstalled OO3 via the Synaptic Manager but now I can only get OO2.4 despite removing and adding the above to the repositories.

Hey newToUbuntu - check out the Graphics menu - Draw should show up there if it's installed, and not in the Office menu.

Aaaargh! Just when I find a possible solution... I'm watching and waiting for these to be reuploaded...

Did not work for me (running ubuntu 8.10). I have Ooo 2.4 installed. Update Manager does not show any available upgrades for Ooo.

The repository still not working(
Waiting impatiently)

I resolved the Failed to start application error by removing the openoffice-gtk and openoffice-gnome packages. The GUI looks bad but the app works.

Still waiting...
Anyone knows if work is in progress?

I have get rid of OO3 and go back to the default 2.41. Man, that was a pain in the X.

Conizius and others guys, we are waiting for repository updated. Look at Comment #78

""""""I'll post here again when it's up and running! """""""

I had the same problem - it just uninstalled OO3 from my start menu after the last update a couple days ago.....ARRRRrrggghhhh.
Anyone know what to do? Any other more reliable respository out there to re-install it?

THIS METHOD HAS CEASED WORKING.
This is the experience when you try something free.
Of course, this ppa launchpad has run out of bucks. They have gone out to beg.

No hope from now onward.

Stefan, this worked well! Rather than use the app launcher, you can try installing the Desktop menus (it throws an error) and it will do the hard work for you.

Thanks...the GUI guide didn't work but the command line did!
;->

Grateful for both,

Miguel Guhlin

Repository STILL seems to be not working.....

Still not working ?

Hello.

it does nothing for me. I have OO 2.4 and it does not show any update any where. not even if I do it manually

Hi,
I tried as it is shown, but it was not sucsessfull. Is there a problem or should I do it in a different way? I would really like to to update it to new version.

Thank you.

Have a nice day
;)

Hello guys,

I have just installed aswell ubuntu 8.10 and I try to install through the repositories or through the terminal after downloading the package and it doesn't.
As a newbie I might have a stupid question, what is the difference between intrepid and jaunty. I am asking as some websites suggest to put jaunty to fiz the problem but it doesn't work neither.

thanks

For lou: Hello, Intrepid is Ubuntu 8.10 and Jaunty is Ubuntu 9.04 (not yet released). If you put the jaunty repository in Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10), it will not work, because it will require packages that are available only in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04).

Regarding the OpenOffice.org 3.0 packages, we are still waiting for the OpenOffice.org Scribblers team to upload them again. Sorry for any inconvenience!

thanks for your quickly reply and answer, I feel less stupid. lol.
I guess for OpenOffice.org I will wait like everyone. ;-)

I am starting to play around with ubuntu and customizing it and I love it even if it is a bit difficult at first. But there are many tutorials online.

thanks,
lou

I followed the instructions from post #72 and it all worked for me, the thing is that it doesn't overwrite the previous installation, but actually adds a new instance of OOo. So that's my 2cents.
And, btw, thnx... =)

Paingel, how did you upgrade? This repository is still not working.

I guess I'm gonna stick with the 2.4 for the moment.... But thanks for the tip anyway!

Very disappointing, to see them taking weeks to upload the update. I repeat again, this is the fate of FREE SOFTWARE PHILOSOPHY

thats a wonderful attitude. what a helpful person you are, way to expand the linux community and help people learn.

Wait a minute. The "free software philosophy" has nothing to do with this. Anyone who wants OpenOffice 3.0 in Ubuntu can go to Openoffice.org, download the .deb packages, and install the software. Nevertheless, it's no big deal to wait till Canonical includes 3.0 in the normal Ubuntu updates. The "them" who is taking, um, "weeks" to upload the update are third-parties who have nothing to do with the development of the software.

... that was frustration!
yeah we could install separately - but this ends up intsalling program in /opt/ ...etc while I wanted to have it in /usr/lib/openoffice/ just for the sake of making it speak to Bibus - a bibliography software.

will have to fiddle around more.

So since the launchpad repository for OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been set up, a bug has been found? Because I used it a few weeks ago and OOo 3 installed just fine with an update. Now on another fresh installation of Intrepid, OOo 3 is not listed in Synaptic even though I included the launchpad repo.

Any time frame on a fix? Or are we just waiting for 3.1?

I had trouble installing OpenOffice 3.0 on my desktop computer, but then I realized, that I just wanted to take the GUI for a test run, and I had used the "Install inside Windows" option (I guess that means it is sort of running as a virtual machine). When it is installed this way, I have major issues with updating the repositories. The update manager would not give me the updated repositories for the 3.0 in this configuration.

Now on my laptop, I installed Open Office 3.0 no problem via the steps provided. However, this is installed to the hard drive inside of it's own partition. I wouldn't really think this would have anything to do with being able to update Open Office 3.0, but it's just a thought.

Which version of OpenOffice did you download?? I have a strong suspicion that you downloaded the Windows version (*.exe), and then tried to install that version on Linux (Ubuntu). If that is the case, then you did in fact install it in an emulation environment called Wine. I'm actually somewhat surprised that it worked at all!

If this is the case, then you can probably still use it like this, but it's going to be unreliable and slow. You should probably uninstall the Wine version (re-run the installer and select "Uninstall"), and then download the Linux version for Ubuntu (or whatever distro you are using). This will do a much better job of installing and running.

Not working now. It's not that important but it would be nice. I should have done this before updating Ubuntu 8. It worked before but I had to re-install. I will try another distro.

THE PACKAGES FOR OPENOFFICE.ORG 3.0.0 ARE AVAILABLE AGAIN! :)

Thanks very much! When I saw the .rpm files when I downloaded openoffice from their website I thought "here we go again". I googled how to install it for ubuntu and I found your website. Really easy! Thanks again.

Keep up the good work.

the third party repositories are back up guys. you should be able to see version 3.0 in synaptic after you click Reload

I use 8.04/Hardy amd64/64-bit and I just tried to apply
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main
line in software sources.
After reloading package list, It does not give me OO3 as upgrade option.
I see *.deb packages are available in
http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/
and http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openoffice.org-l10n/
But automated upgrade/installation as described in the article does not work for 8.04/LTS at the moment...

Cheers for the excellent instructions! I can *almost* do that in the terminal but I'm sure I'm leaving out a hyphen or something, so its nice to have a back up! Shame about you guys bickering tho...

I've followed exactly the procedure. Running UBUNTU v8.10
Options are listed but not selectable. I get an error too : "Not all updates can be installed". Then I took the option for 'partly install' and got this error: "Error authenticating some packages". What to do next?

For Markor: The tutorial is for Ubuntu 8.10

For Kees: You have a broken installation of OpenOffice. Follow the instructions below...

1. Please remove all OpenOffice.org packages from your system. Use Synaptic for that, and search for openoffice. Remove the openoffice-core package (other packages that depend on openoffice-core will also be removed, but not all... therefore you should remove other openoffice packages listed as installed.
2. Remove or disable the OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 repository!
3. Reinstall the original OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 from Ubuntu repositories.
4. Follow the tutorial again.

OK, now it seems to be working again.

Hi Marius,

Unfortunately no luck it seems. I removed all related Openoffice items via the the Synaptic Manager. Re-installed OpenOffice 2.4.1. Rebooted PC. Added the OpenOffice v3.0.0 repository as listed in the how to. Rebooted PC. Clicked on the Update Manager, I got exactly the same errors... This whole sequence I performed twice, both times as described above.

When I remove the OpenOffice 3.0.0 repository from the Software Sources, no more updates are availble and also no errors.

Please help...!

Thanks in advance,
Kees

Hooray! The repos are up :)
Many thanks for this article, it works like a charm (I use Ubuntu 8.10 i386).
And many thanks too all those who got it working.

Hi Marius,

Unfortunately no luck it seems. I removed all related Openoffice items via the the Synaptic Manager. Re-installed OpenOffice 2.4.1. Rebooted PC. Added the OpenOffice v3.0.0 repository as listed in the how to. Rebooted PC. Clicked on the Update Manager, I got exactly the same errors... This whole sequence I performed twice, both times as described above.

When I remove the OpenOffice 3.0.0 repository from the Software Sources, no more updates are availble and also no errors.

Please help...!

Thanks in advance,
Kees

Hi Marius,

Unfortunately no luck it seems. I removed all related Openoffice items via the the Synaptic Manager. Re-installed OpenOffice 2.4.1. Rebooted PC. Added the OpenOffice v3.0.0 repository as listed in the how to. Rebooted PC. Clicked on the Update Manager, I got exactly the same errors... This whole sequence I performed twice, both times as described above.

When I remove the OpenOffice 3.0.0 repository from the Software Sources, no more updates are availble and also no errors.

Please help...!

Thanks in advance,
Kees

Oo3 keeps on crashing on my computer. I use Ubuntu 8.10. Does anybody know why? Is it a bug? Thanx guys.

I'm afraid that I'm getting the same error as Kee's when i try to upgrade. I have have openoffice 3.0 on my system for a couple of weeks now having originally followed your instructions. Now when I try to update my system it's giving me the "Not all updates could be installed". Looks like a new problem as of today. Something changed.

Same here; no update on 8.04 after adding thee ppa repos

Marius, I removed and re-installed twice the older version of the OO via the synaptic manager. Same results. Looks like the key signing process goes wrong. What to do next? A manual install using the commands:

"sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openoffice.list
add
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --allow-unauthenticated"

Please your advice.

Cheers,
Kees

Great to see the reps are back up again, thanks for everything!

Kees, I had the same problem with "Not all updates can be installed"... and I've removed all the openoffice packages with synaptic (search in the list for all openoffice packages and remove them). I've also removed the OOo 3.0.0 repository from the Software Sources tool... I've installed 2.4.1 again and upgraded to 3.0.0 with this tutorial :)

I know nothing about the authentication problem you mention... I know that with PPA you get a warning but you don't need a key.

I suggest to try it with an Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD and see if it works. I did :) and it works ;)

Good luck!

For mrwes: Like I said... the packages are ONLY for Ubuntu 8.10 :)

Hi Marius,

I manually installed the OOv3 by following my above stated manual procedure.

Cheers,
Kees

I just installed OO 3.0 in my Intrepid. Gee, I thought OO 3 can open office 07's files, but, unfortunately, it can't.
Any body can help me bout this problem?

Thanks

Just ran this tutorial, and it worked great! Thanks Marius!

as much as i love the guide, i would STRONGLY recommend that these packages become signed. please, please, please don't tell users "this is official PPA so it doesn't need a signature" or anything to that effect. whenever you say such things you are undermining the whole purpose of the secure and authenticated distribution system. once you get new users accustomed to blindly ignoring or bypassing security warnings you're setting them up for a world of pain. that only increases your problems in the long run.

otherwise, thanks for the awesome setup and instructions!

cheers,
Tomasz

What will be the consequence of adding this repository's installation of 3.0 when the official Ubuntu repositories finally include it? At that point, will we get two installations of OOo on the machine?

Easy, 10 minutes start to finish.

Thanks

For Space: As far as I know, it will overwrite the default ones... as long as they are newer. If Ubuntu will upload newer packages of OOo 3, you should see the update icon in the system tray area. But I don't think Ubuntu will include OOo 3 in 8.10 :) .. as you can see there are only 4 months left until the new version of Ubuntu will be launched. But... anything can happen :)

Nice guide! Very easy to follow and good screenshots!
Thank you!

It can be done for 8.04 now.
You can see here: https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive
Thx.

Thanks very much, after a week of trying to uninstall 2.4 then install 3, failing miserably, the easiest tip I've ever followed ended in complete success.

Thanks for a great guide!

It's installed but working poorly on one of my Intrepid boxes. Symptoms are incorrect accelerator keys and drawing glitches (text appears in the wrong place but forcing a redraw, e.g., by shading and unshading the window, fixes it). I didn't see these problems in the Ubuntu packages.

Is there a simple way to revert to the official 2.4.1 packages?

Installed fine but having minor glitches that make me want to revert to the official packages:

* Drawing glitches (characters drawn in the wrong place). Forcing a redraw is a workaround.

* Accelerator keys wrong: ctrl+A opens a file dialog instead of "select all"

* Bullet list doesn't work in Impress: trying to enable it with the toolbar button pops the dialog asking for the style, but selecting one doesn't cause the bullet list mode to activate

So: is there a clean way to revert to the original Ubuntu packages?

Nothing original to say... Just many many thanks for the guide.

For Chris: The fastest way to remove it is to search openoffice in Synaptic and remove all the openoffice components. Then, remove the OpenOffice.org 3 repository from the Software Sources tool and reinstall the default packages offered by Ubuntu.

You should mention the authentication error and explain what it means in the instructions.

1)Followed your excellent tips. using Update Manager, OpenOffice 3 installed perfectly.
2)Modified Applications menu "Office"to include only OpenOffice. org . This led to the "Welcome"page, from which can be accessed all the sub applications like word processor, spreadsheet, database, draw etc.
3)Deleted "draw" from Graphics application memory as it was also on the "Welcome Page".
4) All excellent advice, easy to follow for someone, like me, new to Ubuntu.

Marius: Thanks for the info. I reverted to 2.4 using your method, and all seems well.

Interestingly, 3.0 seems to run much better on my desktop than it did on the laptop. I strongly suspect that the laptop's problems were interactions between OOo3 and the NVIDIA graphics drivers. The desktop runs an Intel shared-memory graphics subsystem and OOo3 works fine. On another laptop with ATI graphics it's pretty good, though not as stable as I'd like (routine crashes / unexpected quits when viewing Powerpoint files with Impress, for example).

Hopefully there will be updates that fix it up. It's pretty nice on the desktop machine.

This instruction works in my Intrepid...
Thanks...

This worked flawlessly ... Thank You so much! :)

Thanks. The instructions were easy to follow and they worked very well.

I was so disappointed when I saw OpenOffice.Org 2.4 as standard In Intrepid. I had already activated it through Add/Remove programs so I had some msgs that all the packages could not be installed. I went to Synaptic and marked the OpenOffice packages that were installed for upgrade and after that everything went like a dream! Thank you so much for the instructions! No playing with tar files!

Wonderful, thank you, you made it so easy.
I was struggling with the terminal using dpkg -i *.deb and failed miserably.
Mind you, I am very new to Linux( and loving every minute of it).
I will try more with the terminal, but first I need to get my PC running properly, then I can play ;-)

Worked flawlessly on 8.04 hardy heron.

(replaced intrepid with hardy for step 1)

Very good instruction.

Clear & to the point.

Had no problem with the whole process but for the slow download despite a Broadband connection.

My patience paid off and not I'm enjoying Openoffice 3.

Thank you!

Where you should use this for Intrepid (and mint6):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

Use this for Hardy (and mint5):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main

And this for Jaunty:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu jaunty main

Install worked well and easily. However, I do agree with the concern others have expressed that the code isn't signed and this results in grave warnings when installing about the risk of damage to my privacy and/or system.

For Andrew Young: Yes, of course... I agree also, but users should worry about strange packages from unknown repositories, not the PPA repos, which are part of the Launchpad project... owned by Canonical.

Certainly appreciate for the simple screen shots, Layman like me could install it without any issues,

EXCELLENT !!

What about people running ubuntu on ppc? Some core debs are missing :(

I was able to upgrade OpenOffice from 2.4.1 to 3.0.4 by on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.0.4 without issues. The only change that I had to make was substitute the repository for Hardy in step one as others have mentioned. This was a flawless way to make sure the update worked.

In contrast - the first time I attempted to update to OOo 3 was following some very arcane instructions that involved command line and configuration file editing procedures. Needless to say that failed due to my error, and on reboot I lost gnome, Firefox and much more. A re-install cured all, allowing me to try again with this method.

The only thing I need to do at this point is find the OOo launcher and place it in the menu list of Office Applications.

Thanks for an assume tutorial.

didnt worked using the update manager, but seems to be working by marking all updates using synaptic!!
sam

Ouch, I am picking up the pieces from a botched OO3 upgrade on Kubuntu. A word of advice, be sure and upgrade in the same environment in which it was installed. By that I mean--I am running two version of KDE--the one that came with Kubuntu and a KDE4.2RC. I attempted the upgrade from the latter and I think that's what contributed to my situation... Live and Learn. :)

Hey!

I need to reinstall 2.4.1, but how do I do that? Through synaptic?

Thomsen

I got the upgrade, but none of the drop down menus are there -- just little lines where it would say "File" etc. If I click where "File" should be, I get a drop down list -- also without any names. When I go to where I know "Exit would be and click, it tries to exit.

I also didn't get the neat new interface. When I go to applications, office, I have the listings for the programs. When I select a program, it does tell me it's version 3.0.

Any thoughts?

tnx

mark miller
mr.mcmiller@gmail.com
Noblesville Indiana

I too got the same result as Mark Miller. Any answers out there?

For Thomsen: Hi. Follow the instruction below to downgrade...

1. Please remove all OpenOffice.org packages from your system. Use Synaptic for that, and search for openoffice. Remove the openoffice-core package (other packages that depend on openoffice-core will also be removed, but not all... therefore you should remove other openoffice packages listed as installed.
2. Remove or disable the OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 repository from the Software Sources tool.
3. Reinstall the original OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 from Ubuntu repositories.

Thanks for the piece!

Am currently 'aptituding' it!

The above example in the blog did not help me with my Mint 6 Felicia. The CLI scripts did work. That you.

Thank you very much. It's really helpful.
Clear instructions with neat and tidy screen shots.
Cheers !

It was very easy to follow but did not work for me. It did give me the message " Could not download all the repository indexes ...........", and stopped leaving everything as it was before

Thank yo9, simple and to the point and everything needed to just get it done... and helpful

Thank you for this tutorial! Very easy and painless.

Thanks! I am also new to Linux this was a great walk thru! I am upgrading my laptop as we speak!!!!

Wonderful! Thank you very much!

Why the package require the installation of gcj. It's not supposed to use the default java vm installed?

When I installed my system I removed gcj (or openjdk, cannot remember now) and replaced with sun java runtime, due to its better compatibility with web pages. And even when I have more than enough HD space, since I dont develop in java, find having a forced version installed kind of pointless.

Installing Fortran, now thats absurd. The package maintainer should look at the dependencies of that package once more.

And he (or she) should check if there is a virtual package or something like that that points to the current install java vm, because afaik OpenOffice requires java for some functionality, but it do not require specifically gcj.

So if there is a chance the package maintainer sees this, please fix that, ty.

I have the same problem, and can't get OO3 to work with Bibus this way. Any hints?

Very easy well put together walkthrough. Thank you.

Great instructions.. Tried them with Ubuntu eee on my Asus. However, following the instructions to download and installfrom the repository did not work because OOo core was the wrong version for hardy which my version of Ubuntu eee is bsed on. I also managed to delete OOo 2.4 that I had installed as default! Substituting hardy for inrepid in the APT line worked fine. Have not yet updated my OS to Easy Peasey which is replacing Ubuntu eee and is based on 8.10.

Great tutorial, nicely structured and easy to follow !

Just wondered if you know of a repository for the 64-bit version of OpenOffice for the 64bit version of Ubuntu? I'd like to install, but would rather have the OS integrated version.

Hey all,
to the fellow who said you dont need sigatures for a repo...you are way off in left field.
They are becoming increasingly important to assure that there are no back doors so to speak and no tampering of files.
So the the fellow who mentioned that, you are up to date with your information and all people who are hosting a repository need to have that gpg key signature and we need to have that as an assurance you are doing this correctly

coz

Thanks a lot. This was really helpful. I was sick and tired of 2.4 crashing on me repeatedly. I hope this solves my problems! Thanks again!

Thank you - made it nice and simple for a newb.

Wow, thanks, it works really well, i was having so much trouble with the spelcheck in 2.4, it was like pulling teeth, 3.0's a lot better, more professional feeling to it, almost the same as Word'03.

Hi! I installed OpenOffice.org 3 on my kubuntu 8.10 as described. But if I started it (tested with witer) and choosed File->Open... (I installed the german translation, so it is Datei->Öffnen...) no dialog appeared. If I choosed File->Save as... also no dialog appeared but also the X-Server did not react on any mouse click. I tried to remove the .openoffice.org/ directory in my homedir without any result. I also restarted the computer. What helped was to uninstall OpenOffice completly and to reinstall it. Then I could use it, but there have been no icons for the toolbar. I hope that I can solve this issue, but at the moment I do not know how...

There is an actual issue with RC1 of OO 3.0.1. It should be solved with the final version. More information and a workaround for handling this issue is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/267376

Greets,
Florian

Did not work error message at stage 1 at reload .
next step did not happen.

Fixed! Check the 3rd step of the tutorial.

Wierd. I followed everything, the repos got added correctly, but when I search synaptic, or do an update, i don't see any of the OO3 packages.

I'm getting this error after adding the repo line:

GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 60D11217247D1CFF

Fixed! Check the 3rd step of the tutorial.

After adding the repository and hitting the reload button, the following error message popped up:

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 60D11217247D1CFF

Any idea on how to work around this? Thanks.

resolved after installing the key file, with the help of this link:

https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa

What hapener? I have been happily usuing 3.0 with Kubuntu 8.10 from Launchpad repositories for a couple of months no problem. Suddenly tonight an update removes the entire OO suite from my system. Am I alone? What did I do to deserve this?

I don't know what happened, but the packages were updated 19 hours ago to version 3.0.1 :) What I suggest? Reinstall the packages...

Thanks Marius. I have reinstalled and all elements of OOo are restored and in 3.0.1 as you say.
I have a few issues: the KDE menu now only contains a link to writer, even draw has disappeared from the graphics entry. Also calc is no longer the default for spreadsheets. I can live with those, and probably fix them if it annoys me too much. I only mention it in case others are having the same problem.
One final thing is that Dmaths has lost some fuctionality and seems to be messing up the menu bars in writer, but I guess I can take that up with the Dmaths team. Could be that Dmaths is not yet updated for 3.0.1.
Thanks for guiding us through the missing key - I'm starting to get the hang of that now.

2009-01-31 - WE'VE ADDED THE OpenPGP AUTHENTICATION KEY STEP IN THE TUTORIAL FOR EVERYONE WHO HAD AN "GPG error" ISSUE.

I might be blind... but I can't find that part of the tutorial, can you point me to it? I'm getting the GPG error and it's annoying! Thanks :)

It's at step 1, right under the second screenshot....

"Right click HERE and "Save Link As..." the key file on your desktop. Go to the fourth tab, "Authentication", click the "Import Key File" button, navigate to the location were you've just saved the key file (File System/home/YOURUSERNAME/Desktop) and double click it. You will immediately see a new entry called "247D1CFF 2009-01-21 Launchpad PPA for OpenOffice.org Scribblers"."

Thank you for the excellent tutorial. Succesfully uptated OpenOffice from 2.4.1 to 3.0.1 by on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.0.4. But I was not able to find language pack for my Country. In ppa.launchpad.net repository only english is supported?
Cheers,

I've successfully installed OO.o 3.0 using these instructions. Thank you! However, I need to also have OO "base", which hasn't been installed (apparently, at least, since the button is dimmed in the menu). Is there any way to add this to synaptic and get the database program? Oh, while it's probably obvious, I'm a newb.

Successfully upgraded to oO 3.0 without exception on
Ubuntu 8.10
AMD 64
HP Presario F700

Thanks for the instructions. Too bad Ubuntu hasn't solved this yet but its a tough problem.

Roger

Thanks, man. Lotsa help. Thank GOD for package manager(well, actually thank canonical).

Thanks a lot! I want to just let you know that I did this on Kubuntu 8.1 64 bit and it worked perfectly. As easy as you like with no problems at all with the KDE 4.2 interface. Excellent!

Thank you very much.
Worked perfectly with Kubuntu intrepid!
Though you might have to run:

dpkg --configure -a

Thnx a lot.
xlent work

How hard can it be?

sudo -s
wget http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/LINUX/small/key
apt-key add key
rm key
echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
exit

Thanks Han, your a lifesaver - this worked when the guide borked (unable to fetch some of the goodness)

As for how hard it could be: without a concise guide to terminal and the inner workings of the repository it can get a little hairy for even an advanced PC user.

I have a question for Han and others, like the wonderful Marius who created this guide: how do you figure these things out? Seriously? I love step-by-step guides, but I also feel this intense need to *understand* what all these steps mean. You know, "give a man a fish / teach him how to fish" sorta thing. For example, how did you figure out which links to tell us to use? I'm fairly new to Ubuntu/Linux, but far from a neophyte computer user....

By surfing the Internet and monitoring various websites... testing and testing and learning...

After all.... practice makes perfect ;)

Thank you for this guide. Just today I did a normal Ubuntu Update and my OO 3.0 was punted down back to 2.4. Your guide saved the day!

Good guide, worked perfectly for me. Thanks!

I did all the steps but I just get all the open office components grayed out and non-clickable in the package manager window..?

Worked first time thanks. First class.

Thank you! This simple instruction to update OpenOffice to version 3.0.

I can't believe how straightforward this proceedure is. Why is everything kept so obscure? It's supposed to be an open community, isn't it ? BIG thankyou. regards all P.S

Looks like the repository URL has changed. I was having problems following these instructions. Getting an error that the URL was "malformed". Found this other website and the URL is slightly different

https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

note the ../ppa/... which was not in your post. These are the repository URLs for intrepid, but the site gives them for the other ubuntu builds. Once I used these new URLs all was fine for me.

I've just tested the link in the guide and it works very well! Your links also work, but I will not change them in the tutorial as I see no reason.... Maybe if the existing ones will disappear...

Marius,

That is interesting since the original links did not work at all for me. I got an error message when it tried to update. I tried it both from the Software Sources UI and command line and got the same error. Here is the error from the shell:

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Release Unable to find expected entry mai/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

That is what kept me going on the search to resolve the problem. As I was searching, I found a lot of people having similar problems. Don't know exactly why you aren't impacted. I wonder if it has anything to do with this being release 3.0.1... I am curious if your OO has upgraded to that version using the repository. That is the sub version of 3.0 that was installed once I changed the URL. Anyway, I found the other URL and all was fine.

Even though I had a little problem, the howto is very nicely done... thanks for your help.

I've tested the current guide with the current links on a clean Ubuntu 8.10 install.... that means OpenOffice.org 2.4.1. And it offered me packages for version 3.0.1

Thanks! Excellent and simple article. It helped me a lot :)

Great howto guide. And it worked! Thanks a lot!

I have Ubuntu 8.10 on my PS3 Installed. I followed the instructions carefully however I can't see the OpenOffice on Office menu. Please help.

Thanks ! I was really looking for this kind of help

Try installing openoffice.org-debian-menus if you have no menu entries; there are also Gnome and KDE desktop integration packages in the repos.

Excellent - installed v3 on Hardy no problems, and thereby sorted a problem in working on a dodgy MSW .doc Thanks!

Awesome tutorial! I like that you included the public key (hate when pkg manager warns about unauthenticated repos).

Magnificent walkthrough. I'm an absolute noob to Linux and this process was a walk in the park. I highly recommend this site and it's wasr amount of help/ information.

Excellent. This is the way how solutions for key problems should be told to guys like me. Thanks a lot.

The initial method didnt work for me, kept saying the repositories not found using older ones instead, however this worked instead.

In Terminal type
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openoffice.list

Type in the new window the deb line
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
Save it, not save as. Close it.

In Terminal type
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Make sure your openoffice is closed while you do this.
This was posted by mariuz earlier. Thanks mariuz 3.0 works now.

I tried this method, but I must have done something wrong along the way because now OpenOffice does not appear in my applications menu, and I am not able to open any files saved by any of the open office applications (text, calc, draw, ...).

When I start update manager, there is a heading "Other updates" under which there's a single entry: "openoffice.org-base-core". However, no matter what I do, I can't check this item for update so it is not downloaded.

I've tried the command line method outlined by Mariuz (and later by Jon) twice now, the "apt-get update" part seems to work fine, but the "apt-get dist-upgrade" part reports: "The following packages have been kept back: openoffice.org-base-core".

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? If so, can you suggest how I might go about restoring OpenOffice to working order?

Thanks in advance.
Max.

Thanks so much for the advice on how to install the open office 3.0 upgrade for ubuntu 8.10. You guys are awesome! Keep up the good work.

Good site, Great Guide! One reason I enjoy Linux is I feel like I know what the heck a software update or installation is doing and not just clicking "OK" over and over.

This was a GREAT write up, very helpful, thank you VERY much!

Thanks a billion! That worked great, didn't take long to download either. Took a while to install, but Open Office is a large program so that was expected.

Thanks for clear, well documented instructions!

Thxs Jon 4 installing tip the one that is on this web page got me lost. Ur way of installin is alot better. Thxs

Followed this tutorial on my Intrepid install, but I get the old welcome screen from 2.4 instead of the new one shown in the second screenshot.

I guess I have no other alternative but to uninstall OOo and start over... :-

Well, I managed to solve my problem by removing OOo then reinstalling.

Everything seems to be working fine now - thx!

Installed this on Xubuntu 8.10 and LinuxMint 6 (XFCE) with no problems. Used terminal method for Mint. Thank you very much for this info.

Bill

Could someone weight in as to why the afore mentioned method of install posted by Jon does not work.

I'm running Ubuntu Ibex 8.10.

The only thing that I can think is that I have completely removed Open Office 2.4. Do I need it installed for the dist-upgrade to work?

Yes, you need Ooo 2.4 for the dist-upgrade to work

I only have one small issue with using this guide, which is that I don't yet have a home internet connection. Before I found this guide, I did some searching and ended up downloading the .DEB files from the OpenOffice site (for my 64-bit Intrepid). I did a dpkg to install them, but was told (1) I need to install the Java Runtime Environment, and (2) that I had conflicting packages, which I take to mean I need to uninstall version 2.4 first.

I know this is a bit beyond the scope of this guide, but could anyone help me do this install offline (i.e., I download files at work, bring them home on flash drive, install on Ubuntu box)? Or is that just too ridiculously difficult and I just need to get my butt to the public library...? Thanks for any advice!

Thanks for this guide. I installed Ubuntu years ago before Ubuntu was even available. Wow, has Linux improved. I got all nervous though when I saw that I need to update OpenOffice, but your guide made it a cinch. Thank you!

excellent- worked perfectly :)

Upgrade to 3.0 worked really well on an Aspire One 8.9" - nice and simple. But how do I get from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1??

If you followed this guide, the installed version should be 3.0.1 :) Please check!

By following you steps my openoffice suit has disappeared. I tried to install it again but it says:
This application conflicts with other installed software. To install 'openoffice.org-writer' the conflicting software must be removed first.

Switch to the 'synaptic' package manager to resolve this conflict.
What can I do?

Hmm.... that's strange! Anyway, you can open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager) and go to Edit -> Fix Broken Packages. If the Apply button appears, click on it to fix the broken packages.

Pasted the deb line from the PPA web page and successfully got OO 3.0 in Hardy Heron. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for sharing those easy stapes

Thanks ofr this one. It was really easy actually.

Every other guide I've used for Ubuntu was with Terminal telling me to do stuff I don't even know what they mean. This is the first problem solution through GUI I ever saw. :)

Softpedia rocks!

Just great!
Thanks, it really works.

This worked perfectly for me, and it was the first google result. Thanks for posting.

Very easy to follow. Thank you for your kindness.

Great tutorial! Thanks!

Thanks..works great..

Thank You for the great job you've done. It was very easy to update.

Hello evry budy, please what is "the public key" NO_PUBKEY in software source

Please do the step where it says "Right click HERE and "Save Link As..." the key file on your desktop. Go to the fourth tab, "Authentication", click the "Import Key File" button, navigate to the location were you've just saved the key file (File System/home/YOURUSERNAME/Desktop) and double click it. You will immediately see a new entry called "247D1CFF 2009-01-21 Launchpad PPA for OpenOffice.org Scribblers"."

Thanks ever so much. Very easy and appreciated.

I cannot thank you enough for making my life so much easier. Every step that takes me away from Windows is a very satisfying step.

THANKS SO MUCH FOLKS for the great, easy way to get OO3 up and running here. So sorry I didn't find this instruction till after the third try!

Thanks again for you SMART WORK!!

After downloading and downloading (old Windows paradigm), I finally found this site and the instructions were right on the money. Thank you for accurate instructions. I have so much to unlearn and learn.

Works great! Thank you!

Very useful article, thank-you as I am now using Openoffice 3 smoothly in Ubuntu 8.10

Tnx for your how to. I upgrade to Oo 3 fine.
But a week ago arrives Oo 3 updates and here is a problem. The update's downlad(i prove it last time right now and i failed) stop at a certain point and worst of all stop my entire wirelles wicd connection. After that my network interface wlan0 is shut down & i must restart my PC. That's truth only with Oo 3 update not for others like ubuntu's security updates or other sw updates(hint: I note i.e. for new(not right now in official uduntu repos) version of transmission bittorent client (i have install in the same manner like Oo 3) give 2 deb one for binary packs and another one for source packs. Instead you have proposed only 1 deb i guess for binary pcks.That's possibly related with that problem?
TIA Harry

I must update my old post.
Ok just today i uptade on the latest Ooo. The only change i have done is
a) i have passed on eth cable (in my first post i was with a wifi adapter)
b) time elapsed since then(maybe a lanchpad
extended failure? i don't know)
Anyway now it's all ok & i reenter Ooo repos on automatic search updates

Thank you another one time ;-)

I get an error when updating, everything goes through except openoffice.org-emailmerge. It says the file is missing from the servers. Anyone else getting this?

Exact error is:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-emailmerge_3.0.1-7ubuntu1~intrepid1_all.deb
302 Redirect

Try again... I'm sure it's just a temporary issue...

I've done that several time already, and it's in my update queue with all new updates so it's becoming a bit of an annoyance now with it popping up an error every time I run my updates. Anyway, here's to hoping they replace/re-up the file or whatever that they removed.

I don''t have anything that looks like the second screen shot. What did I do wrong?

This worked great on both my Ubuntu Hardy and Intrepid boxes. Thanks!

I have a small request. There is a Ubuntu package for OpenClipArt called openclipart-openoffice.org that integrates OpenClipArt with the OpenOffice.org gallery but it is for OpenOffice.org 2.4 and doesn't work with this OpenOffice 3. Is there any chance of a package being included in this OpenOffice.org 3 that does this, or does anyone here know of a solution?

Thanks again. This rocks!

Chuck

I had to restart my computer in order for this to work, thanks for the guide.

Thank you for the very concise guide. You helped an Oldie-Newbie out of a hole.

It is really a wonderful and dead easy - to - follow steps even for babies. thank you so much.

Thanks for just the tutorial I was looking for, it worked great.
It is only my first week with linux of any flavor and I did not know how to unwrap tarballs or run commands from terminal
Next is multiple partition, I still need to boot Windows sometimes

Just a quick note of thanks. That was surprisingly simple. I've got a new source for linux help.

I just learned how to do this using the GUI. Thank you so much! Until now I always used the shell to edit sources and install/update with apt.

Marius. I've never seen Linux until yesterday. Downloaded Ubuntu with wubi.
Managed to get wireless working. Now I am trying to update OO. you say in
your instructions. right click HERE. Where is HERE? wherever I right click after
inputting the APT line info I do not get the option to save,or save as. All I get
in the box that opens is, paste, select all, input methods, & insert unicode character. What have I done wrong? Please help. Take it easy though I am not
good at all at understanding this stuff. Very new to it all. Regards.

Hi Cliff,

HERE is a link, just right click on the HERE text and choose the save link as... option from the context menu, in order to save the key file.

This is the key file that you need to save and import like it says in the above guide http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/LINUX/small/key

Have fun!

Thanks, Marius! Very simple to follow and worked great. This is one of the things I love about Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular - lots of good, useful advice available with just a quick Google query.

Excellent guide, thanks a lot Marius!

Thank you very much, Marius. Keep up the good work. Guides as good as this save a tremendous amount of time and frustration.

As with many others, thanks to Marius, the OO team, Canonical and all other deserving accolades. I had problems, but resolved them easily by following the set of comments posted by Marius. Here's a synopsis:
1> I had previously installed OpenOffice 3.0.x on Hardy 8.04 (through a more laborous process) and it was working OK
2> I did the Intrepid 8.10 upgrade to completion
3> I lost all OpenOffice capability - the upgrade removed the 3.0.x release and did not install 2.4.x - but left fragmented packages around
4> My attempt to install 3.0.x as provided for here, worked OK, but partially; notably, I had no icons and some things didn't seem to work right
5> I used Synaaptic Package Manager to search for all "openoffice" and proceeded to mark EVERY installed package for removal, then did so, whether associated with versions 1.x, 2.x or 3.x (yes, I still had 1.x fragments)
6> I used Add/Remove to install the OpenOffice Suite; note I left the repository and authentication keys in place, as provided for above; this resulted in OpenOffice 3.x being installed, with icons and all functionality.

Thank you. Wonderfully accurate, clear and simple.

Thanks Marius! Nice, clear an precise tutorial!

I had the same problem as stated in “comment #262 by: arkmundi on 13 Apr 2009, 16:24 GMT”

I was able to fix the problem as follows:
1> I had previously installed OpenOffice 3.0.x on Hardy 8.04 (through a more laborous process) and it was working OK (version in Spanish)
2> I did the Intrepid 8.10 upgrade to completion
3> I lost all OpenOffice capability - the upgrade removed the 3.0.x release and did not install 2.4.x
4> My attempt to install 3.0.x as provided for here, worked OK, but partially; notably, I had no icons
5> I used Add/Remove to install the OpenOffice Suite; note I left the repository and authentication keys in place, as provided for above; this resulted in OpenOffice 3.x being installed, with icons and all functionality. However, the icons and overall appearance changed somewhat from my previous installation. Seems to work ok though.

Anyway, thanks Marius!

Worked, funny, that adept has almost the same GUI...
Why don't these guys use gpg/pgp?
Cheers!

This article was to the point and very detailed, I was very pleased and it did help me tremendously. Thank you very much.

Brilliant! Many thanks. I'm a complete noob so this really helped me a lot.

Came across this post earlier, decided to wait for 9.04 to upgrade Oo. Now can't upgrade because of ATI driver issues, so making do with 8.10. Opens beautifully, even from my cairo-dock. Many thanks!

Thank you for this clear step by step how-to. The patience and understanding of the ubuntu community never ceases to amaze me.

Four thumbs up! (Myself and my mother lol)

This how-to also works on Linux Mint 6

Thanks for the tutorial.

In linux mint 6 you can add repositories in synaptic. Just go to Settings -> Repositories.

In order to add the key I had to do it with the command line.

sudo apt-key add /home/path/to/key

I am not sure if there is another way to do this but this way worked for me.

Sweet. Ubuntu 8.04 and just followed instructions. Thanks!

Only two trivial suggestions:

1) Most other new Linux online documentation will have the instructions of what needs to be typed in the console in a black line bordered box with a pale yellow background. As this page, didn't I actually had to *READ* what I had to do rather than skipping from yellow box to yellow box.

2) Once the key file can be deleted from the desktop once the installation is complete (well before hand but we won't go in that).

Particularly liked the "right click" for the key file and then save to desktop.

Thanks from someone that doesn't have the time right now to be exploring all the corners of Linux/Ubuntu but rather is trying to focus on getting a project out. Learning the corners will come soon. :-)

~twm3

Thanks for sharing. Just been banging my head for half hour with a manual OO download.

This has solved it in 2mins.

This is one of many reasons why I love Linux and just wouldn't go back to Window$

:)

Great tutorial! Thank you for putting in the time to put this together. Keep up the good work.

I am using 8.04.

Everything went well until very end of install when it couldn't upload a couple of files. I lost 2.4 and 3.1 did not install. Therefore I have just had to remove the files that were installed by 3.1 and reinstall 2.4.

I think there are so dependency problems in Hardy.

Thank you very much, workes smooth as.

Wow... simply superb.
Easy way of downloading OOo 3.0
thanks

I got this:
"Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Release Unable to find expected entry deb-src/binary-lpia/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead."

And then I went ahead with updates and now OO old or new do not work.Help!!

Didn't work for me ar Ub 8.04 and OOo 3.1.1 Sorry!

Cannot see the OO updates in the update manager... so it didn't work for me

Didn't worked with Xubuntu 8.10. Updates don't appear in the update manager.

okay everything worked up to the update manager. There are no updates... HELP!!!

But do not show update in my system......
so what to do?
rely please.

Did you upgrade your Ubuntu ?

I've seen this method on several sites, and used it with my Hardy system 6 months ago without problem. However, my other system running Intrepid doesn't see the updates. I've confirmed all the details, I see the sources in etc/apt/sources.list, but apt-get doesn't list these sources when updating, and the update manager shows nothing. So like many recent posts here, this method isn't currently working for some reason.