Update Open Office on Feisty Fawn

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On 10/18/2007 11:12 AM, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> Gunawan spake thusly:
>> Hi All,
>> As we know that Feisty Fawn comes with Open Office 2.2.0.
>> I would like to upgrade to 2.3.0 so I have download it from openoffice.org.
>> Tar balls file contain many rpms. as advice by someone on ubuntu forums
>> I run alien command to convert it
> 
> I have yet to hear of anyone having a decent time installing
> OpenOffice.org's own version of it's software in Ubuntu.
> 
> I'm sure people have done it, but I've come across posts like yours a
> number of times over the past few years.

I do it all the time - it only takes a few minutes if done according to
the instructions. It's even easier & faster now that the packages are
already in deb format.

> 
> Frankly, I'd recommend just upgrading from Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon.
>  Gutsy was just released today and it has OpenOffice.org version 2.3.
> 

I'll second that. Particularly if one is not familiar with having to
have to rip out the OOo meta package stuff.