HOWTO Install OpenOfice.org 2.0 on your system

[christooss]

In repositories you can find only 1.9.129 - RC2 version so here is how you instal pure 2.0 on your system

1. Installation from repositories

1. Open your sources.list and add this line in

deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/OOo2 ./

AMD64 and ppc

You can help your self with these repositories

   deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/OOo2-amd64 ./
   deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/OOo2-powerpc ./

2.1 Do a update and upgrade

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

This all will upgrade your previous version 1.9.129.

2.2 If you removed any OpenOffice.org installation from disk than simpli do a

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org2

BEWARE this are test packages But they simply work

2. 2.0.0 version installed from DEB's
1. Download english version with wget

wget ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/SRC680_m137/Build-2/OOo_SRC680_m137_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

2. Extract file

tar -xzfv OOo_SRC680_m137_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

4. Installation

Go to dir with debs and perform

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

5. Native language instalation

Download your language package from ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/..._langpacks_deb
There are three packages. Donwload them all

Then install them with

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

3. 2.0.0 version installed from RPM's

1. Download
Download Linux file from OpenOffice.org just choose linux when it asks you for your platform. You can use bittorrent you can find when you choose server from which you download.

2. Extract tar.gz file

tar -xzfv OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz

3. Aliens in Ubuntu

With alien you transform all rpms to debs.

pit your self in RPMS subdir of directrory you just created and than execute

sudo alien *.rpm

or

fakeroot alien*.rpm

Wait till all the packages are transformed

4. Installation

Now performe this command

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

5. Put Openoffice in your gnome menu

Go in to desktop-integration dir and execute

sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.0.0-3_all.deb

and than

 killall gnome-panel

Now you should have new icons in you Programs/office menus


4. RC3 version - easyer to install
1. Download
Download Linux file

wget http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/RC3/OOo_OOO680_m3_LinuxIntel_install_en-GB_deb.tar.gz

2. Extract tar.gz

Extract file with

tar xzfv OOo_OOO680_m3_LinuxIntel_install_en-GB_deb.tar.gz

4. When all packages are transformed execute. First o to DEBS derictory which has been created

cd DEBS/

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

and wait for all the packages to get install

5. Restart gnome-panel

killall gnome-panel

Now you will have menus shortcuts. But they will be dubled use OpenOffice 2.0 ... ones

pressing any of this options will show you splash screen


Enjoy your OpenOffice.org 2.0

[Juippisi]

killal gnome-panel

Shouldn't this be "killall" .

But hey, thanks for this howto. I'll try it soon.

[christooss]

Fixed

Thanks

[tseliot]

Nice guide. Thanks!

[Juippisi]

OOo-2.0 works perfectly. Thanks!

(And for someone that doesn't use Gnome... the command to start OOo2 is openoffice.org-2.0)

[abandoned_hussam]

Is there a difference between 1.9.29 and 2.0? ( bugs, etc...)

[Juippisi]

At least bug and stability fixes. Find more about "What's new in 2.0" here.

And wasn't 1.9.29 the "beta1"? After it has comed beta2, -rc1, -rc2 and is 2.0 "-rc3"? I think so.

I recommend updating.

[darehanl]

I have a problem with the menus. At least for my system, the /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.0 shell script points to the wrong file. The contents of the script is

#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/openoffice.org-2.0/program/soffice "$@"

However, I need to change this to

#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/openoffice.org-2.0/program/soffice.bin "$@"

Only after the modification do the menus work (it works just fine after adding the .bin part). My soffice file has permissions 000, while the soffice.bin file has execute bits on. The /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.0-printeradmin script needs to be fixed also.

[kashms]

I don't want two versions of openoffice installed so i want to uninstall the version installed by default in Breezy, but in synaptics it wants to uninstall ubuntu-desktop as well! Is this safe? And what would it break if anything?

[MakubeX]

Sir, if it's okay, I would like to know the milestone/build or version name of the official OpenOffice 2.0. I am confused as to what I should place in the blank of "cvs co -r __________ OpenOffice" since the latest version of the source I had downloaded via CVS was the RC3 and the value of that blank was OOO680_m3 (or "cvs co -r OOO680_m3 OpenOffice"). Anyone who has an idea about this?

TIA.