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Debian-based Installation
Debian-based Installation
Installing .debs
The simplest way to install the OpenOffice.org package you've downloaded is use the
command
dpkg -i
(short for
dpkg –install).
1. First log on as root or from the GUI, open a root terminal.
2. Type:
dpkg -i -–force-overwrite openoffice.org*.deb \
desktop-integration/openoffice.org-debian-menus*.deb
and openoffice.org will be installed. If you already had an older version, dpkg will
upgrade it rather than installing both versions at once.
3. Install any language packs needed for OpenOffice.org.
Removing .debs
4. If you want to remove a package, you have two options. The first is most intuitive:
dpkg -r openoffice.org
This will remove the
openoffice.org
package
(
-r
is short for
--remove
).
Note that you give only the '
openoffice.org
' for
--remove
, while
--install
requires the entire
.deb
filename.
Installing from Linux RPMs
1. Download
Ooo_2.0.xxx_Linux<NeededCPUArchitecture>_install.tar.gz.
2. Unpack downloaded .tar.gz archive, for example with command '
tar xvzf'
3. cd into the
RPMS
subfolder, which will be created after unpacking the
.tar.gz
4. Run
su
(or
sudo -s
, if your system uses sudo and you are allowed to run a shell as
root with
sudo -s
. For example, Debian-based Ubuntu Linux uses
sudo
as the
default utility that permits a user to become administrator (
root
)
5. Delete any openoffice.org*menus*.rpm files that do not apply to your system. For
example openoffice.org-suse-menus*.rpm and openoffice.org-redhat-menus*.rpm are
not for Debian.
6. Install the
alien
utility for converting RPM packages to native Debian packages
(.DEB) with command '
apt-get install alien'
or by manually downloading
from http://packages.debian.org/alien/ .
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