On 6/12/09, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
OpenOffice 3.1.0 is available for Ubuntu 8.04 in the Personal Package Archives (PPA) courtesy "OpenOffice.org Scribblers". Follow this guide:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Install-OpenOffice-org-3-0-in-Ubuntu-8...
Its actually for Ubuntu 8.10, so replace deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main with deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
I testify, OO.o 310 works fine on my Hardy. Actually, there was just one problem... I had to manually remove the duplicate entries from the Office Menu in Application Launcher.
Did you use the above method? If not, could you tell me the procedure you used? Thanks in advance.
Yes, Very much the same procedure. Hardy appears in the drop-down list on the PPA page of OO.o Scriblers (https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa). When you select it, it gives you the deb line of their Hardy repo. Add it to your sources, import the key given on their page and reload the apt. You can see the update offered from 2.4 to 3.1. The only issue I faced, as mentioned in the previous mail was that - after updating, duplicate entries appeared in the Office Menu of Application Launcher. I had to manually remove them. Anyways, being a heavy user of spreadsheets, I didn't find visible improvements and still continue using MS-O for the purpose (another flame bait! :P )