Xubuntu 8.10 & Open Office 3.01

Sumanji

Sumanji

Sumanji

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Hey,

Trying to install this with no luck! I'm a total Linux noob (only ever got as far as installing a distro before giving up in frustration :p). So I have the folder with all the installers on the desktop, but I cannot "compile" or "make" them. The commands just throw up errors.

I've tried a few guides on the internet (mostly relating to Ubuntu 8.10 which I gather is pretty similar). Cannot get it from auto-update either.

Please help! Why can't I just click on a damn EXE like Windows?! :(:mad::o

Cheers,

Suman
 
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Firstly, if you want an .exe then Linux is not for you. Learn to love it for what it is, rather than what it is not.

The instructions on the Open Office site are comprehensive IMHO, follow them and it will work.

If I were you though, I wouldn't bother. The version your distribution comes with has been painstakingly checked and verified to work properly. Wait until they update the version in the repository, there's nothing wrong with the version you have for now.
 
I wouldn't have bothered if OO was on this distro mate - unfortunately, it only comes Abiword and Gnumeric Spreadsheet. Hence I persevere :p The only guide I could find on the OO site was from 2002 and related to OO v1. Suffice to say it did not help.

Well anyway thanks for the "help", guess I'll keep trying on my own...

Suman




*Dons flame jacket and waits for holier-than-thou remark*
 
Have you downloaded all of the build tools needed to use the compiler?

sudo apt-get install build-essential should be enought to build most things, although i found with Ubuntu 8.10 i had to apt-get install imake as well for some things to compile. Maybe post some of the compiler errors here? Im no linux guru, but im sure others could find out what you are missing etc
 
Hang on...

Why aren't you just doing: 'sudo apt-get install openoffice' (or run Synaptic Package Manager (I think it's under system tools in Ubuntu) for a nice GUI method - that's even easier than Windows!) ? It's in the repositories for all Ubuntu derivitives afaik.

You won't get 3.01 but do you need that specific version?
 
Nope I don't need a specific version, anything that can read .doc and .xls will do! Just setting up Linux on a really really old laptop as a "last stand" backup PC :p

I typed "sudo spt-get..." into terminal and it says "Couldn't find package openoffice". I'm not sure how to use that command with the.deb files in the OO download package? Tried fiddling with Synaptic as you suggested... could not find OO in there!

Cheers,

Suman
 
Woohoo got it :D used this method.

Download OOo from their web site.

Here are the commands to download it, if the links doesn’t works, go on their web site:

English 32-bit version:

wget http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Office/Open...OOo_3.0.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

English 64-bit version:

wget http://mirrors.evolva.ro/openoffice.org/stable/3.0.1/OOo_3.0.1_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

Once downloaded, we must extract it:

tar -xvmf OOo_3.0.1_Linux*_install_*_deb.tar.gz

We then proceeded to the installation from the DEBS folder:

cd OOO300_m15_native_*/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

And so OOo3 is installed!
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Gonna stop dabbling with Linux now, it clearly is not my forte :o:p

Cheers,

Suman
 
I typed "sudo spt-get..." into terminal and it says "Couldn't find package openoffice". I'm not sure how to use that command with the.deb files in the OO download package? Tried fiddling with Synaptic as you suggested... could not find OO in there!
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In synaptic a search for openoffice.org should reveal the items.
 
Dude you might wanna try LXDE as well/instead of XFCE. IT looks like XP but is super light, my parents old laptop is like a 2.4ghz core 2 duo 4gb ram all singing all dancing laptop hehe.... its a celeron 1.6 with a gig of ram in reality :p

proper happy :)
 
The Mad Rapper said:
You can leave that bit out if you like :)

It's obviously not a problem if you're already running 8.10. If you aren't then you can just do the 'sudo apt-get update' and the update manager should pop up in the system tray ;)
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proberly worth editing your post, someone might be running 8.04 or 7.04 LTS and type that command and upgrade to 8.10 when they didnt want too.
 
Sumanji said:
I wouldn't have bothered if OO was on this distro mate - unfortunately, it only comes Abiword and Gnumeric Spreadsheet. Hence I persevere :p The only guide I could find on the OO site was from 2002 and related to OO v1. Suffice to say it did not help.

Well anyway thanks for the "help", guess I'll keep trying on my own...

Suman




*Dons flame jacket and waits for holier-than-thou remark*
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It's in the standard repo.
Code: 
sudo apt-get install OpenOffice.org
 
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