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Install OpenOffice.org 3.2

celldweller aka abhishek — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:30:18 +0000

OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is an open source software application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years’ software engineering. Started as a single piece of software, it has a constantly evolved. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. As a result, OpenOffice does everything you want, the way you want it to. And all this for Free.

Download OpenOffice.org 3.2:

.deb (32 bit ) - here

.deb (64 bit) - here

For more information, go here.

How to Install OpenOffice.org 3.2 in Ubuntu :-

You have to remove the older version of openOffice.org. For that , head to System>Administration>Synaptic-package-manager and remove OpenOffice.

Now, get the downloaded file to the desktop for ease while installing.

Note: Replace celldweller with your username

After that extract the tar.gz file using

cd /home/celldweller/Desktop

and then,

tar xvzf OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

Secondly, we need to access the directory that contains all deb packages. For that, type in

cd /home/celldweller/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-GB.9483/DEBS

Now, install openoffice using this command

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

After the installation, get OpenOffice to desktop panel options for fast access. Type in this :

cd /home/celldweller/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-GB.9483/DEBS/desktop-integration

and type

sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org3.2-debian-menus_3.2-9472_all.deb

and we are done with the job.

Go to Application > Office and enjoy.

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PDFedit – a very good PDF editor for Linux

GaagD — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:24:06 +0000

We are very sorry for taking long to post a new post. We’ve been busy lately.

PDFedit is a PDF editor for Linux and supports word-processor style editing of the unencrypted PDF files. It is pretty easy to use and can be used if you want to make some changes to your PDF files and then distribute them.

To install it, either you can use Add/Remove or the Synaptic Application manager or simply use:

sudo apt-get install pdfedit

in the terminal.

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Ubuntu OpenOffice Suite

Gaurav aka GeekG — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:41:20 +0000

The Open Office Suite in Ubuntu is just the perfect blend you need for all your Office needs.As Wiki says OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo), commonly known simply as OpenOffice, is an office application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It is written using the GTK and supports plugins like Firefox which provides it additional functionality.

Comparing with MS-Office or WordPerfect,this pack just fulfils all the needs of a Rookie like me that too for free.Now that’s something really satisfying since I don’t have to payout a hefty amount just for my small needs.Though online options too are available but they haven’t developed that much yet.

OOo has been divided into 6 components few of which are available by default in Ubuntu

Those six components are

Writer (Available By Default)
Calc (Available By Default)
Impress (Available By Default)
Base
Draw (Available By Default)
Math (Available By Default)

Note : To install rest components you may use Applications >Add & Remove and search for “OpenOffice”

To Access OOo go to Applications>Office and select the desired component.We’ll take here the 3 basic components of it which are used most

Now lets take a quick look at these 3 components

OOo WRITER aka OOo Word Processor

Writer does all the basic stuff of word processing and is similar to MS Word and is can save files in PDF format (not available in earlier versions of MS Office).It can also save documents in multiple formats including DOC, ODF and many more.

OOo Calc aka OOo Spreadsheet

Calc is similar to MS Excel & is rather better than it in many fields. It provides a number of features not present in Excel, including a system which automatically defines series for graphing, based on the layout of the user’s data . Also it has functionality to have customised plugins according to your needs which can be downloaded from OpenOffice.Org Site.

OOo Impress aka OOo Presentation

Impress similar to Apple Keynote or MS PowerPoint and is used for presentations.Its supports plugins like rest its counterparts and also allows exporting the files to swf format(Adobe Flash) that is generally present in our browsers these days .It also has presentation wizard that guides you through the presentation customization on go.