On 28 September 2010, key members of the OpenOffice.org Project formed a new group called The Document Foundation, and made available a rebranded fork of OpenOffice.org, provisionally named LibreOffice. The Foundation stated that it will coordinate and oversee the development of LibreOffice. Due to the requirement of fully open sourced office suite, it has been dropped from the major Linux distribution and it is replaced by LibreOffice; still you can install manually by downloading it on your computer. Here is the small guide for installing OpenOffice on Linux Mint 12 / Linux Mint 11.
Note:
Before installing OpenOffice.org 3 you need to remove the LibreOffice (if you have it already installed).
Open Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T).
Download OpenOffice.org 3.3.
### 32 bit ###
raj@geeksite~/$ wget http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
### 64 bit ###
raj@geeksite~/$ wget http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded file.
### 32 bit ###
raj@geeksite~/$ tar -zxvf OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
### 64 bit ###
raj@geeksite~/$ tar -zxvf OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
Install OpenOffice.org 3.3.
raj@geeksite~/$ sudo dpkg -i OOO330_m20_native_packed-1_en-US.9567/DEBS/*.deb
Install menu integration.
raj@geeksite~/$ sudo dpkg -i OOO330_m20_native_packed-1_en-US.9567/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.3-debian-menus_3.3-9556_all.deb
Start OpenOffice.org.
By command line mode.
raj@geeksite~/$ openoffice.org3
For first time you need to go through the post installation setup. Click next on welcome screen.
Fill up the details.
Automatic update.
Choose the registration options and then click on Finish.
Screen Shot of OpenOffice running on Linux Mint 12.
That’s all.