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Test Drive OpenOffice 3 Release Candidate 1

[update] OpenOffice 3.0 has been released. See this post on installing it in Ubuntu.

OpenOffice 3 should be released in time to be included in Ubuntu 8.10, but you can try the recent release candidate right now in Ubuntu 8.04 (or another Debian-based distribution) without disturbing your existing version of OpenOffice (you can even run both versions at the same time).

OpenOffice 3 adds updated ODF format support, Microsoft Office XML format support for reading, chart enhancements, a new start center, improved notes in writer, spreadsheet sharing, enhanced PDF support, and more.

[update] I’ve updated this post for installing release candidate 2.

OpenOffice 3 start center

  1. Head to the download page and select the Linux (deb) or Linux 64 bit (deb) download. Decompress the archive to your desktop.

  2. Installing OpenOffice requires installing a large number of DEB packages. It’s easiest to install them using the terminal. Open a terminal, switch to the directory where you decompressed the download to, and install all the packages at once:

    cd ~/Desktop/OOO300_m7_native_packed-1_en-US.9354
sudo dpkg -i DEBS/*.deb

  3. That will not have added you any Application menu items. You can create one yourself using the menu editor (System->Preferences->Main Menu). Menu icon graphics are available in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps. Launch OpenOffice with this command:

    /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

  4. You can delete the download from your desktop after the installation.

Want to remove OpenOffice 3? I’ve compiled this huge command (it’s all one line) to remove all of the OpenOffice 3 packages:

sudo apt-get remove ooobasis3.0-base ooobasis3.0-binfilter ooobasis3.0-calc ooobasis3.0-core01 ooobasis3.0-core02 ooobasis3.0-core03 ooobasis3.0-core04 ooobasis3.0-core05 ooobasis3.0-core06 ooobasis3.0-core07 ooobasis3.0-draw ooobasis3.0-en-us ooobasis3.0-en-us-base ooobasis3.0-en-us-binfilter ooobasis3.0-en-us-calc ooobasis3.0-en-us-draw ooobasis3.0-en-us-help ooobasis3.0-en-us-impress ooobasis3.0-en-us-math ooobasis3.0-en-us-res ooobasis3.0-en-us-writer ooobasis3.0-gnome-integration ooobasis3.0-graphicfilter ooobasis3.0-images ooobasis3.0-impress ooobasis3.0-javafilter ooobasis3.0-kde-integration ooobasis3.0-math ooobasis3.0-onlineupdate ooobasis3.0-ooofonts ooobasis3.0-ooolinguistic ooobasis3.0-pyuno ooobasis3.0-testtool ooobasis3.0-writer ooobasis3.0-xsltfilter openoffice.org3 openoffice.org3-base openoffice.org3-calc openoffice.org3-dict-en openoffice.org3-dict-es openoffice.org3-dict-fr openoffice.org3-draw openoffice.org3-en-us openoffice.org3-impress openoffice.org3-math openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure

Archived Comments

earobinson

arg the deb 64 link seems to be broken :(

http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/download.php

Saman Sadeghi

Thanks for adding that huge remove code!! So what are your impressions of OO3??

slumbergod

Thanks! I have only been using OOo3b2 since I have found it really stable. Actually, today was the first time I found something that didn’t work correctly in beta 2 so I look forward to trying out RC1-

maek

Kept crashing for me .. and they call this a release candidate ??

Exsecrabilus

How about:

openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure
ure

:)

quixote

I’ve been running OO 3.02b for a while now. I downloaded rc1 from the link here, and ran sudo dpkg -i after unpacking, installing it over the top of the previous version. It wouldn’t run, saying there were unresolved dependencies.

Grrr.

So I used your handy uninstall list. (Thanks! :D)

Then I tried installing using sudo gdebi PATH_TO/*.deb

That returned this message:
This package is uninstallable
Dependency is not satisfiable: ooobasis3.0-core01

Any idea what’s going on?

Ivotron

x86_64 links is broken from the download page.

This link contains the list of mirrors:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html#download

OOo_3.0.0rc1_20080904_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

Cheers!

quixote

On an ubuntu forum (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5785818#post5785818 I think) DJ_Peng mentioned that there’s something odd about the installer – it’s not really a proper .deb – and that one needs to run “sudo sh update” in the top level unpacked OOO-whatnot directory. Then run “sudo dpkg -i *.deb” in the DEBS dir.

That installed it for me (finally!), but when I tried to run it, all it did was crash. Same as maek. It would start, say it lost the file, restart, recover, crash, restart, recover, crash.

Maybe Sun needs to hire someone from Mozilla or Ubuntu who knows how to put an installer on a program? Honestly!

clayton narcis

Keeps on crashing and restoring files.

Thank goodness for the one command remove line.

Guess we have to wait a little longer..

HardDisk

Menu DEBS are located in desktop-integration inside the DEBS folder.

Sokraates

The crashes described by some commenters are related to the imported profiles.

To avoid those crashes, do NOT import your profile from OpenOffice2 or (if you’ve already imported them), delete or rename ~/.openoffice.org and ~/.openoffice.org2 and restart OpenOffice3.

Itix

Will there ever be a way to completely replace O.O. 2.4 in Ubuntu? I have a very small “hard drive” (the triple e…) and I don’t want to use both at one time. Now that the final version has been released, It would be nice if open office 3 could replace open office 2.

Tekagirl

My thanks to you for this, which I used yesterday to install the official release.
And my thanks to Sokraates, who helped me to fix my problem w/ OO-3 crashing repeatedly. It was indeed fixed by renaming those files. (And for anyone else who can’t figure out where they are - ctrl + h in your home folder will show you your hidden files, and from there it’s easy as pie. Takes me a while to catch on, but I can be taught! =) )

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