Hi All
I’ve been using OO 3 on Fedora since last year, and decided it really is about time I added it to my Ubuntu installs.
Here is what to do no searching and no command line access required.
- First off we need to add the Launchpad repository for OpenOffice to our software sources, as it’s still not mainline ubuntu as yet.
To do this carry out the following:
From the task bar,
- Click on ‘System’
- Go down to ‘Administration’
- Go Down to ‘Software Sources’
As shown in the screen shot shown below:
Next you’l be prompted for your password, as shown below:
Now enter your password, as prompted.
Once the Software sources application has started:
Select the ‘Third Party software’ tab
As shown below:
Click on the ‘Add’ button on the bottom left hand corner. This will generate a text box for you to enter the line to add the repository, as shown below:
In the text box for APT line enter the following :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
If you are still on ubuntu hardy, replace intrepid in the above line with hardy
Click ‘Add Source’
Click ‘Close’
After a little while the ‘Software Sources’ application will close.
Now all that is left is to simply ‘Update’ your system as usual.
You now have a fully functioning OpenOffice.org 3 installation.