Open Office is one among those flag ship products in the world of Open Source. It is an Office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and many other. It works on Linux, Windows or Mac based systems. Open office has recently released the latest version of the office suite called Open Office 3.0 with many new upgrades. Ubuntu 8.10 is preinstalled with Open Office 2.4 and its time to upgrade. Its not yet arrived in the official ubuntu intrepid repo.

As said above, the new version is not yet there in the ubuntu official repo. You have to add the following repository as a third party repository.

• Goto System->Administration->Software Sources and then GOTO tab "Third Party Software".
• There is an ADD button below. Click the button and a new window pops up. Paste the following in the space given.                  

                      deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

• After adding the new repo, GOTO Appication->Accessories->Terminal and type the following.

                      sudo aptitude update

• Now do the upgrade.

                      sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

• GIve you password when prompted. And thats it. Your version of Open Office is now upgraded to Open Office 3.0. Have fun with this all new Office suite. :-)