
sudo apt-get remove -purge libreoffice-core So open the Terminal Window and type the following command and give password.This will remove the LibreOffice completely. NOTE Be careful ppa:upubuntu-com/office refers to older version of open office.ġ) For installing OpenOffice you have to first uninstall the LibreOffice which is by default installed in your Ubuntu. deb files by typing sudo dpkg -i *.debīy default, this will install Apache OpenOffice in your /opt directory.įor installing the desktop integration features for your setup navigate to desktop-integration in the DEBS installation directory and do sudo dpkg -i *.deb

The Extracted directory will be named after the Language you selected to download like Unpack the downloaded Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86_install-deb_ to prepare for installation by tar -xvzf Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86_install-deb_ tar.gz from here, selecting your Arch type through Linux Intel DEB for 32-bit and Linux x86-64 DEB for 64-bit, it basically contains. sudo chmod a+rx /opt/3/share/uno_packages/cache/uno_packagesĭownload. Next, it fails with "exception in syncronize" because permissions are wrong. You need to install some 32 bit libraries: sudo apt-get install libxrandr2:i386 libxinerama1:i386 Starting openoffice3 will fail with the message "no suitable windowing system found, exiting".

If you are on a 64 bit system you are not done yet.
