Update Open Office on Feisty Fawn

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On 10/19/07, Darryl Tidd <n5dlt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Scott (angrykeyboarder) <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:12:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Update Open Office on Feisty Fawn
>
> 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
>
> Here is what  I did.
> sudo apt-get remove openoffice*
> Extract the files to /home/user
> After extraction
> cd /home/user/OOG680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9221/RPMS
> sudo alien -d *.rpm (this will convert rpm to deb)
> sudo dpkg -i *.deb (this will install the deb files)
> cd
> /home/user/OOG680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9221/RPMS/desktop-integration
> sudo dpkg -i *.deb (this installs the Debian Menus)
>
> Using this method I was able to install Open Office 2.3.0.
> However, after doing this, update manager tells me there are updates
> available for Open Office.
>

Expect that those OpenOffice packages will not match your expectations on
your Ubuntu system,
from what I suspect, they'll still be using "Impress" instead of
"Presentation Tool",
the "Save As" dialog will not be using Gnome Save As UI, and the icons and
style aren't Tangonified.
IMHO, (as my unconscious mind tells me) those simple changes does affect
alot of things.
If my suspicion isn't right, tell me that my unconscious mind is wrong.

-- 
"object-oriented programming is really just a common sense extension of
structured programming" - Roger Sessions
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