I agree with 'xenopeek' on this, LibreOffice is being actively maintained and updated more so than OpenOffice.īut, if you want to install OpenOffice, the instructions in the link below should work well and are similar to HaveaMint's instruction. I just read your post and the good replies to it. The current version (4.1.6) has a few minor changes from the previous release that was done late last year. That said, be clear that Open Office is not actively developed. deb files and should re-run that command also from the desktop-integration directory afterwards. Next you should follow HaveaMint's instruction to install all the. The above makes point that you should remove a symlink only but that will be reinstalled when there is an upgrade for LibreOffice. In short you should probably uninstall LibreOffice. Installation Steps - RPM or DEB: Download to Installation Directory, Unpack Read the included documentation for how to install it (usually README file) or see what the project itself has on its website for installation instructions.įor Open Office they've spelled it out for you here. You're assuming there's some generic process for installing software from. I followed thru all of that, and OpenOffice does not appear in the menu, nor can I find a folder anywhere with OpenOffice as the name. Please do not type blindly the instructions above first, read any documents called 'README' or 'INSTALLATION' that you will find in the archive.

Typically, what you then do is as follows:Īs you see, only the step actually installing the program requires superuser rights everything else happens just in your home directory, which you own.

Very often, such an archive contains software that must be compiled and then installed. If this archive contains something to install in the system, then sudo would be useful at one point or another.

Or you can just double-click on the archive from Nautilus (the file manager) to see what's inside. No need to use sudo to unpack the archive.

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