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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.

1. 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,

1. Click on ‘System’
2. Go down to ‘Administration’
3. 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.

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