After using OpenOffice 2.2 in Feisty I was much disappointed. Hours of work lost I decided to remove everything and install from openoffice.org.

  • find the packages to remove
dpkg --list | grep ii | grep openoffice | cut -c5-35<br></br><br></br>openoffice.org-calc       <br></br>openoffice.org-common     <br></br>openoffice.org-core       <br></br>openoffice.org-draw       <br></br>openoffice.org-gnome      <br></br>openoffice.org-gtk        <br></br>openoffice.org-help-en-us <br></br>openoffice.org-help-fr    <br></br>openoffice.org-hyphenation<br></br>openoffice.org-impress    <br></br>openoffice.org-l10n-common<br></br>openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb <br></br>openoffice.org-l10n-en-za <br></br>openoffice.org-l10n-fr    <br></br>openoffice.org-math       <br></br>openoffice.org-style-human<br></br>openoffice.org-thesaurus-e<br></br>openoffice.org-writer<br></br>
  • remove them (you need to press Y occasionally)
for  i in $(dpkg --list | grep ii | grep openoffice | cut -c5-35); do apt-get remove $i; done<br></br>
  • remove all packages installed automatically
apt-get autoremove
  • install alien and convert the RPM’s from the archive
apt-get install alien<br></br>tar xvfz /phantom/linux/OOo_2.2.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz<br></br>cd OOF680_m18_native_packed-1_en-US.9161/RPMS<br></br>alien --scripts --keep-version -d *.rpm
  • this takes a while, then install all deb’s
dpkg -i *.deb
  • Unfortunatelly it seems the problems was not related to Feisty but rather to OO. So I decided to switch back to 2.0.4
wget -c http://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/openoffice/stable/2.0.4/OOo_2.0.4_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz<br></br>... same steps as above
  • Perform all the links
cd /opt<br></br>ln -s openoffice.org2.0 openoffice<br></br>cd /usr/bin<br></br>ln -s /opt/openoffice/program/soffice<br></br>ln -s /opt/openoffice/program/scalc oocalc<br></br>ln -s /opt/openoffice/program/swriter oowriter<br></br>ln -s /opt/openoffice/program/sdraw oodraw
  • start and hope not to crash