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Installing OpenOffice.org 2.0 for Debian

Posted by tadelste on · 2 comments
Really Linux; By Jon Watson, host of The Linux User Show podcast 		Mail this story
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While the recent release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 (OOo) was eagerly anticipated by the open source community, it has been received with some chagrin. The OOo group released 2.0 in rpm format only. Needless to say, this has some non-rpm GNU/Linux users up in arms. What if you're a poor user like me who needs a non-rpm install? Will I ever get to run OOo 2.0?

Yes! Take heart, for what follows is a tale of how I installed OOo 2.0 on my Kanotix Debian box.

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Comments (2)

OmegaBLK ·
I'm not sure when the article was written, but all you have to do is just apt-get or use aptitude. I updated to OO.org 2 several weeks ago using aptitude. The author mentions he is using Kanotix, but wouldn't it be better to just download the .debs from the Debian repo instead of trying to fudge around with alien and rpm packages? Title is misleading; should be "Installing OpenOffice.org 2.0 for Debian-based distros that don't have OO.org 2 in their repos yet."
jimf ·
Well, it's nice that he's telling people about alien, and it's fine if people want to acquire OO that way, but, in many of the nOOb Distros forums, I see many users getting into trouble that way. It is probably much safer and certainly much easier to apt-get them from the repo. I do notice that the article now notes that the latest OO 2.02 is available now.

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