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28 May 2009
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Openoffice.org3 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.
LinuxMint 7 Gloria come with Openoffice 3.01, in this tutorial we will show you how to upgrade from openoffice3.01 to openoffice 3.1 in LinuxMint7 Gloria . Is easy upgrade injust 3 steps
1- First add some repositories:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
2- Add key
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 247d1cff
3- Now update and upgrade
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
And is done, openoffice will upgrade to the newest version. at the end check your openoffeice version you will find :
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Comments (5)
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2009-07-29 14:53:05 | Andreas
Why dist-upgrade instead ofjust upgrade? I am asking because twith theese instructions and a perfectly satisfied mintupdate I am now installing (besides OOo of cause)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpq5 librasqal1 librdf0 linux-headers-2.6.28-14
linux-headers-2.6.28-14-generic linux-image-2.6.28-14-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-14-generic redland-utils
The following packages will be upgraded:
dbus dbus-x11 grub-gfxboot hal libdbus-1-3 libhal-storage1 libhal1
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev
linux-restricted-modules-common linux-restricted-modules-generic
python-uno ttf-opensymbol uno-libs3 ure xserver-xorg-video-intel
38 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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When I tried to read your tutorial on how to upgrade OpenOffice to version 3.10, the first two lines of instruction were partially blocked by an ad. Nothing I could do would make it readable. So the whole tutorial becomes useless.