How to install OpenOffice 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
**UPDATE 2** – This appears to be working again. Please post a comment and let me know if it works, or doesn’t work for you!
**UPDATE** – This method no longer works. I believe you can install it by downloading the .deb files, however I am attempting to find a way to upgrade from the repositories. If you know how, please post a comment explaining how and I will update this guide.
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (Due out on October 30, 2008) will not be shipping with the newest version of Open Office due to Open Office 3 not being released early enough for the developers to test it. If you don’t want to wait for the developers of Ubuntu to release Open Office 3, you can follow this guide to install Open Office 3 now!
To begin open up Terminal and edit your sources.list file:
Add the Open Office repository to your repository list and save:
Now update your packages list:
You can now upgrade using the Upgrade Manager or via command line.
Open Office 3 Splash Screen
That’s it. Open Office 3 is now running on your system!
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works like a charm, thanks !
Hi!
I get the following message while upgrading:
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
openoffice.org-help-da openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-help-hu openoffice.org-l10n-da openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-l10n-hu
The following packages have been kept back:
openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk
openoffice.org-style-human python-uno
Why is that? Can anyone halp me with that?
Thanks
Hi man, do you have strange keyboard shortcuts in OO 3.0 ? Like ctrl-s in impress is underlined text and so on ? How to get rid of them (I know how to do it one per one but I’d like to have done all in one step)
This does not work anymore.
I found this on a similar forum, explains why this no longer works:
Comment by Ed Jolanski on November 25, 2008 13:16
This will ONLY work for Jaunty, Hardy and Intrepid packages have been removed.
I should mention that I tried changing the repo to
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu jaunty main
but it still did not work =/ Guess we’ll have to trash 2.4 and use the .debs from OoO if we really want it now.
Well, it works for me, OK. But, lately it seems like they removed language packs from the repo. After my last upgrade, I lost my croatian localization, and I have only the standard dictionary… :-/
[...] Re: Ubuntu 8.10 Rocks! "Alias" <aka> wrote in message news:gf1vf8$p8s$1… > Gordon wrote: >> "Alias" <aka> wrote in message >> news:gf1tqk$h0q$2… >>> Well, I updated to Ubuntu 8.10 and, as expected, no problems and the >>> install is as solid as the last one. It’s got updates to a slew of >>> programs, including new drivers for my nVidia card which gives me better >>> 3D rendition and an excellent full screen view of on line videos. >>> >>> For PhotoShop fans, Gimp has a new version. >>> >>> Alias >> >> >> And have you done the simple update to Open Office 3 so you can read >> Office 2007 documents? > > No, I haven’t done the update. I’m not sure how to do it. > > Alias It’s dead easy. Look here: http://chrisjohnston.org/2008/how-to…-intrepid-ibex [...]
Didn’t work for me.
DOES NOT WORK:–
Reading package lists… Done
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 60D11217247D1CFF
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Worked great, but no open office database, how do I add this?
Hi,
I get errors:
serros@inspiron6400:~$ sudo aptitude update
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 60D11217247D1CFF
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
Thanks for your help.
Serge
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To andy: You need to install the GPG public key. To do that, open the Terminal and from the command line, type:
gpg –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv 247D1CFF
and press enter. You should get back something like this:
gpg: requesting key 247D1CFF from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 247D1CFF: public key “Launchpad PPA for OpenOffice.org Scribblers” imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
You then type this:
gpg –export –armor 247D1CFF | sudo apt-key add -
and get the response asking for your password password. Type it, press ENTER, and you should get back:
Oops, submitted before I was done.
You should get back:
OK
Open Synaptic, click “reload”, and the updates should be listed. As of this date (Apr 4, 2009), the version listed is 1:3.0.1-7ubuntu~intrepid1.
One note, when you get the error about the GPG public key, the last 8 characters are what you use. For example, for this repository, it said “NO_PUBKEY 60D11217247D1CFF”, therefore you use the part “247D1DFF”. If you get a similar error for another repository, use the last 8 of that PUBKEY instead.
I know that this is 2 months after you asked the question, but if you have already found the answer, hopefully it will help someone else.
Cheers.
White Gryphon,
This helped me a lot – thanks for this man!
JC
Still works !
i like open office on ubuntu 8.10 i love it guys do you love ubuntu is my favorite beacause i like it i love it try ubuntu try it now for download in ubuntu homepage website and click download button come up the ubuntu installer pops up in the window
All the steps complete without errors – but I am still stuck with 2.4 openoffice ( albeit a new binary). I am running intrepid.
Many people seem to be saying this procedure no longer works with intrepid. It seems you must download and install .debs directly or upgrade to Jaunty. This is my impression.
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