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How to upgrade to openoffice3.1 in LinuxMint -felicia-

Written by M. Zinoune on May 22, 2009. Posted in Linux Mint

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.

Few days ago,latest version openoffice 3.1 was released, the new version comes with many new features( see all new features in details. )

In this tutorial we will show you how to upgrade in LinuxMint 6-felicia- from your earlier openoffice version to the new version 3.1 , the tutorial also available as video tutorial.

Go to Menu –>Administration__>Synaptic package manager

2- Serach for openoffice package

choose latest versionof openoffice 3.1 and Mark it for installation, then click apply

Click ok

The package is downloadin

Openoffice_linuxmint_installing

After the package is downloaded and installed , click ok to exit and then open your openofficce , for exemple word processor, then go to

Help –> about openoffice. you will see that your openoffice has been upgraded to 3.1

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

Felicia

install openoffice 3.1

Interpid

arachnologist

It does not work with Gloria – Package openoffice.org is 3.01, not 3.1.
zinovsky

Yes you have to add some repositories, i made a new tutorial to upgrade openoffice in LinuxMintsee the Link bellow :

http://www.unixmen.com/linux-distributions/linux-mint/225-how-to-upgrade-to-openoffice-31-in-linuxmint7-gloria

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