Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, OpenOffice is one of the most popular, open-source, cross-platform, Office Suite, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X systems.
The latest version available is Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1, which has been recently released, bringing a lot of bug-fixes to the previous OpenOffice versions. For a full list of changes, see the official changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, Debian 8 Jessie, Debian 7 Wheezy and other Ubuntu and Debian derivative systems.
Because it is not available via any repository or PPA, we have to download the deb packages from sourceforge and install the via dpkg.
Follow the instructions for your system and architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 on 32 bit Ubuntu, Debian and derivatives:
First, you have to remove the already installed versions of either openoffice and libreoffice:
$ sudo apt-get remove libreoffice* openoffice*
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Next, we will download openoffice, extract the archive and install the deb packages:
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.1/binaries/en-GB/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-GB.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-GB.tar.gz
$ cd en-GB/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
$ cd desktop-integration
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
How to install Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 on 64 bit Ubuntu, Debian and derivatives:
First, you have to remove the already installed versions of either openoffice and libreoffice:
$ sudo apt-get remove libreoffice* openoffice*
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Next, we will download openoffice, extract the archive and install the deb packages:
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.1/binaries/en-GB/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-GB.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-GB.tar.gz
$ cd en-GB/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
$ cd desktop-integration
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Optional to remove Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 on either 32 bit or 64 bit Ubuntu/Debian and derivatives, do
$ sudo apt-get remove openoffice*