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Install Apache OpenOffice 4 on Linux Mint 15

By Raj on October 18, 2013

Apache OpenOffice, commonly known as OpenOffice.org, OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source office productivity software suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software and is written using its own GUI toolkit. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. As of June 2011, OpenOffice.org supports over 120 languages. As free software, users are free to download, modify, use and distribute OpenOffice.org. Platforms supported by OO.o include Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, OpenVMS, OS/2 and IRIX. The current primary development platforms are Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris.

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 15 / Linux Mint 14.

Note:

Before installing OpenOffice 4 you must remove the LibreOffice (if you have it already installed).

Open Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T).

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*

Download Apache OpenOffice 4.

### 32 bit ###

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.0.1/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

### 64 bit ###

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.0.1/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded file.

### 32 bit ###

tar -zxvf Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

### 64 bit ###

tar -zxvf Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

Install Apache OpenOffice 4.

sudo dpkg -i en-US/DEBS/*.deb

Install menu integration.

sudo dpkg -i en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/*.deb

Start OpenOffice.org.

By command line mode.

openoffice4

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 Apache OpenOffice running on Linux Mint 15.

That’s all.

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  • Dominique

    Thank you so much for this! I had been trying to figure out how to install OpenOffice in LinuxMint for weeks. This is the only guide that worked for me! Thank you sooo much!

  • Grandpa Willy

    Many thanks. I’ve tried several times to install Openoffice in Mint, and yours is the only method that works. Thanks again!

  • Owen

    I tried so many times before without success and finally this worked. All I needed was “sudo dpkg -i en-US/DEBS/*.deb”. I had been pasting various wrong commands into the terminal.
    Will be bookmarking your website for future use.
    Many thanks!

  • John Jeffries

    Excellent instructions! Worked without a flaw! Thank you so much!

  • RICHIE CUBE

    THANKS MAN!!!
    ONLY YOUR INFO HAS WORK
    sorry for my english 😉

    • Raj

      You are welcome

  • Raven Sunn

    every thing works untill i get to the sudo dpkg line ive tried several ways and nothing works it says the deb file isnt there

    • Raj

      Dear Raven,

      Ensure you are in correct directory, where all .deb files are there.
      Then run
      sudo dpkg -i *.deb

  • Philippe

    Bravo! Super tutorial. I had found several last night, among them a few YouTube videos that didn’t work. Yours went like a breeze. Thank you so much.
    Philippe

  • James Swaggart

    Followed the instructions. Done. Thank you.

  • Yaseu

    Thanks so much! You made it simple where others made it hard!

  • Lucas Da Silva Araújo

    Thank you very much, it worked very well!

  • Hagar-t-h

    Thanks. I’ve been trying for a couple of days to install Oo. Yours worked where others failed. I just had to download the en-GB version with firefox and (when installing) change Version number (4.0.1 to 4.1.3) and en-US to en-GB to get the Oo version I needed