Ubuntu – How to install the latest OpenOffice.org

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Today I downloaded and installed OpenOffice through the PPA repositories, using apt-get (hope that's what I mean to say), and when the program checked for updates it said there was a new version – 3.4.1 which I need to download from the website.

I am reluctant to download from the website, because I tried this earlier (before using the PPAs) and while I was able to download the .tar.gz file and extract the DEBS, I couldn't figure out how to install it. I found instructions on the internet that told me how to install, but for some reason, Ubuntu didn't know the application was installed! Couldn't find it in Dash, and to run I had to find the OpenOffice folder and doubleclick soffice.bin.

So my question is, how to I download and install the latest version of OpenOffice without it being messed up as above?

Best Answer

Ubuntu comes with an office suit by default, called Libre Office. If you would still like to install Open Office follow these directions.

Download..

Download Open Office from Openoffice.org (or use this direct link).
Save the file to your Downloads folder.

Install..

I highly recommend that you remove ALL previously installed versions of Open Office before proceeding!

Open a terminal and cd to the downloads folder:

cd Downloads

Now we need to untar the installation folder:

tar -xvzf Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-GB.tar.gz

Then cd to the folder we just extracted:

cd en-GB/DEBS

And install all the packages:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

When that has finished cd to the "Desktop Integration" folder:

cd desktop-integration

and install those packages:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

And you're done!

You can now remove the en-GB folder.

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Use the PPA from the maintainers of git on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
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sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Ubuntu – How to install QEMU 3.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

It seems that we need to compile QEMU 3.0.0 manually.

At first we remove version installed from official repository (if any):

sudo apt-get purge "qemu*"
sudo apt-get autoremove

We should start by installing its build-dependencies - at first enable Source Code repositories in Software and Updates (software-properties-gtk) and then:

sudo apt-get build-dep qemu

Then download it, configure and compile:

cd ~/Downloads
wget https://download.qemu.org/qemu-3.0.0.tar.xz
tar -xf qemu-3.0.0.tar.xz
cd qemu-3.0.0/
./configure
make

and then use checkinstall:

sudo apt-get install checkinstall
sudo checkinstall make install
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if you want to remove it - remove its packages as usual.

And as the result you will have QEMU 3.0.0 installed

$ qemu-system-x86_64 --version
QEMU emulator version 3.0.0
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