Installing OpenOffice

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I am new to Ubuntu and I am attempting to install OpenOffice. (Libre Office does not recognise conditional formatting and hence the dependant macros in my OO spreadsheets) and I am not prepared to write new ones).

I get a load of deb files. I understand that a deb file opens by double clicking it but which one comes first as I always get a message " Dependency is not satisfiable: openoffice"

I am trying to move from XP for obvious reasons.

I am having the same problem with Google Earth.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, but no technical dissertations please I like to lead a simple life.

"I get a load of deb files". you get ONE deb file?! http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#aoo — Rinzwind, Jul 12 '14 at 14:54
What is the exact .deb file name and from where did you download it? — , Jul 12 '14 at 15:01
A general comment - using ubuntu is much easier if you try to find the software in "Ubuntu Software Center" (USC for short at times). Next step in complexity is to use apt-get from the command lines instead, and possibly resort to custom sources designated by PPA's - both these end up in the same database, and will have updates be easy on you. — Hannu, Jul 12 '14 at 15:22
Libre Office does not recognise conditional formatting How about LibreOffice Calc Menu:Format > Conditional formatting > ... ? ... but as you say, there might be issues with self-written macros. — Hannu, Jul 12 '14 at 15:11
There are too many files to type out there are 88 deb files. Downloaded from sourceforge it seems that apache subcontract it to a third party - perhaps that is the problem? — user304876, Jul 12 '14 at 19:25

Daniel · Answer 1 · 2014-07-12T15:15:54.347

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Open a command line (using Ctrl+Alt+t) navigate to that folder where all the .deb files are ( cd ~/Downloads/folder_name) and there do a sudo dpkg -i *openoffice*.deb provide the user password and that should be all.

edited Jul 12 '14 at 15:15

answered Jul 12 '14 at 15:10

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NOTE: Might be a good idea to have ONLY those *.deb files you're playing with, in there. Create a special folder. – Hannu Jul 12 '14 at 15:14
ok let me change something. ok done. – Daniel Jul 12 '14 at 15:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

I just installed openoffice, and this is what I did:

First of all I removed libreoffice, to avoid conflicts:

sudo apt remove --purge libreoffice-*

At this point, I downloaded the package in my desktop (in my case, 64-bit architecture and Italian language it) from here. enter image description here

To install openoffice: first unpack the file with the command (the file version, architecture and language may be different):

tar xvzf ~/Desktop/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_it.tar.gz

Now we are ready for installation (Also here, the directory created corresponds to your language. In my case, it):

cd it/DEBS
sudo dpkg-i *. deb

the last step, install the links in the menu:

cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg-i *. deb

Now openoffice is installed.

References:

apache download page
askubuntu

So I followed these steps, but I can't find openoffice anywhere. I try typing it in from the home button, but the only results that show up are the tar ball file I downloaded, the deb files that were extracted and the openoffice4 folder inside the opt folder which I assume was created on installation. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit. What's going on here? Did openoffice install? How do I now open it? Thanks. — The Duke Of Marshall שלום, Feb 28 '16 at 16:50

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