UPDATE: Due to updates of the old 2.4 package this trick does not work anymore. But this install guide says how you can make it work.
As an improvement on this post below a quick and clean Open Office 3.0 install (tested on Ubuntu 8.04).
Download the ‘Linux DEB’ based tar file from the OpenOffice website. Unpack and change to the ‘DEBS’ directory. Then run:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Then change the file “/usr/bin/ooffice” and replace this line:
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice "$@"
With this one:
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice "$@"
After saving the file changes all your menu links as well as your file extensions point to OO3. And you can easily change back.
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Regards,
Gerard
