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

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>> --- On *Wed, 10/15/08, Steven Davies-Morris 
>> /<sdavmor at systemstheory.net>/* wrote:
>> 
>> From: Steven Davies-Morris <sdavmor at systemstheory.net> Subject:
>> Re: Does anyone know when Openoffice 3 will be available in 
>> Ubuntu Repositories? To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
>> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> Date:
>> Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 4:58 PM
>> 
>> 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! :-)
>> 
>> You don't give any error information so even an expert would have
>> difficulty suggesting a fix. However, are you trying to install
>> an i386 version on a 64 bit OS.
> 
> No, it's the 64 bit version on AMD64.
> 
>> If so, you need to use a --force-all --force-architecture <pkg
>> name> following sudo dpkg -i.  You may need to do some additional
>> things after the install which I don't know about; not an expert.
>> I just came across thse options while installing a Brother
>> printer. Besides making a good printer, they have excellent Linux
>> and Ubuntu support. Someone else will have to tell you if you
>> need to do more after installing OO.o but the above should allow
>> you to install it.  Good luck.
> 
> I was specifically interested in what NooP did to install on his
> box.
> 
> But if I poke around the Ubuntu forums long enough I'm sure I'll 
> figure it out.

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