Problems installing Openoffice 3.0

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 6 19:27:57 UTC 2008


On 11/05/2008 09:02 PM, Mark wrote:
> Hi everyone: 
> 
> I uninstalled the version of openoffice that came with 8.04

As I told you previously, that is a big mistake. I recommend that you
reinstall (U)OOo. The standard OOo 3.0 will co-exist quite happily
alongside (U)OOo 2.4.1.


 and am
> trying to innstall OpenOffice 3.0 and have followed the instructions
> outlined at
> http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-openoffice-3.0.0-on-ubuntu-8.04
> to the letter 

Actually you didn't:

<quote>
... and go to the directory that contains all the .deb packages...

cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/

... and install them with one single command:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb
</quote>

You didn't cd to the 'DEBS' directory.





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