Does anyone know when Openoffice 3 will be available in Ubuntu Repositories?

[Steven Davies-Morris]

NoOp wrote:
> On 10/02/2008 02:00 PM, John Toliver wrote:
>> I wasn't sure about whether I should download the .deb files or
>> whether it would become available on the most recently reported
>> release date of 10/7/08.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
> 
> OOoRC4 is due out middle of Oct. With any luck that will become
> OOo3.0. When you will see those in Ubuntu repositories is unknown
> as Ubuntu uses the Novell/ximian/go-ooo builds instead of the
> OpenOffice.org builds. But I wouldn't guess that you will see
> OOo(U)3.0 in Hardy as it's an LTS. You probably will only see it in
> Intrepid - but hopefully I'm wrong.
> 
> If you'd like to give OOoRC3 a spin the debs are available here:
> 
> http://download.openoffice.org/680/?intcmp=1461
> 
> You can install that side-by-side to your Ubuntu OOo without either
>  affecting the other. The OOo3RC3 will install into your /opt
> directory and the program files will be located in
> /opt/openoffice.org3/program. OOoRC3 will create a separate
> ~/.openoffice.org/3/user folder so it does not interfere with your
> existing ~/.openoffice.org2/user folder.
> 
> I recommend that you join the OOo users list (via gmane nntp is 
> recommended as sometimes it's a very high volume list):
> 
> http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html

I'm going to plead homersimpsondoofus here...how the hell do I install
OO v3? I downloaded the archive and uncompressed it. I took a stab at
it from there with Gdebi but don't appear to be getting anywhere.
I even tried running the update as a shell but that just tells me that
it's skipping all the deselected packages. How did you get it
installed? Minds wishing to move beyond caveman grunting wish to know! :-)
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