Open Office 3.1 is released with a lot of new bug fixes and improvemnets. Ubuntu 9.04 comes with Open Office 3.0 by default. Open office has always been the flag bearer of Open Source movement. You may also want to check out this list of 25 of the best OpenOffice extensions.
Update: OpenOffice 3.1.1 is released. Follow the steps below for upgrading to this latest release of OpenOffice.
The list of improved features in the all new Open Office 3.1 includes antialiased drawings to smooth the edges of graphics, replying to notes, improved grammar checking, hyperlink management and sorting, control of slideshow media, macro support for Open Office Base, relative database paths, better internationalization for Hebrew and Arabic plus performance improvements and so on. Take a look at the full list of features.
Adding GPG Key
- Goto Terminal an copy-paste the following.
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 247D1CFF
Adding Repository
- You will have to add the following new repo. Goto System-> Administration -> Software Sources, select the Thrid-Party Software tab and Click ADD.
For Ubuntu Jaunty
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
For Ubuntu Intrepid
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
For Ubuntu Hardy
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
Upgrading to OpenOffice 3.1 in Ubuntu
- Do the following in Terminal Window.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
OR
- Simply Click the Reload option and afterwards, Mark All Upgrades in Synaptic Package Manager. Hopefully it helps :-)
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I have searched for WEEKS for this upgrade! I am a professor who has left XP and I desperately needed an updated office suite. This was the easiest solution by far!!
I have tried everything here but I am still unable to upgrade my Hardy system.
Is there anything else I can do to help discover the issue?
Thanks!
-Dan
Thanks for the effort but the key for the keyserver seems to be wrong. Could not upgrade.
Hans
I am not sure. It worked fine for me in Ubuntu Jaunty. Which version of Ubuntu are you using.
nice articel, success ^^ Thank you very much
I've tried updating (on Intrepid) but no new packages are found. Could it be that it is just for Jaunty, as it says specifically on this page:
https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa
i tried your sugestion but
it wont work...
damn.....
was i so stupid.....
or my ubuntu wont accept this oo3
confuse memory
I follow the blog steps but don't show nothing new when i do reload or sudo update, sudo upgrade.
If you can help me, thanks
Sorry! But with Ub 8.04 and OOo 3.1.1 didn't work in my laptop.
Only with deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
nothing new was found by the system.
Does anybody knows a different 'key' that maybe needed?
Thanks!
Mate you are awesome! There is NO website with such easy instructions for Oo
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I've seen other forums and web sites for Ubuntu and I end up in not resolving the issue or will not be able to understand or follow the procedure. But your instructions and your prompt reply to the post helped me to resolve issues that I had in upgrade.
Thank you very much!!
So happy to hear that, thanks a lot. Join our twitter list or use our feedurner feeds and i will get you updated with the latest happenings in the linux world. hope you enjoy our articles. keep visiting :-)
Thank you for your reply. I followed your instructions to upgrade and now I don't get the public key error. But the Open Office Startup Splash Screen shows 3.0. In Help > About Open Office it shows 3.1. Please check the screen shot http://picasaweb.google.co.in/AquaUbuntu21/OpenOfficeUpgrade#
After performing your instructions I did install more than 80 MB of updates for the Open Office.
So, does this mean I have Open Office 3.1?
Excatly ! You have OpenOffice 3.1 in your Ubuntu. Don't mind the splash screen, may be they will change only for major releases(Though, I am not sure about that).
I followed your steps to update Open Office for Ubuntu Jaunty and I got the error below. Any ideas on how to resolve it? I am new to Ubuntu.
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 60D11217247D1CFF
Try doing this,
Copy paste the following into terminal
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 247D1CFF
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Please let me know if the issue persists.
ps: I have updated the post above accordingly, please do check it if you face any trouble :-)
Thank you for your information.
I tried your suggestions. They all worked, with the only part missing being:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I read that detail elsewhere, and apparently without executing that command, there remained some 16 or so packages that refused to upgrade.
so... instead of:
sudo apt-get upgrade
use the following and the distribution should be fully upgraded:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade will upgrade your entire distro including the applications. You don't need to do that if all you want is new OpenOffice 3.1 in your Ubuntu. And if you are using Ubuntu Jaunty i don't think dist-upgrade would work at all since it is the latest release of Ubuntu. Anyway i am happy that you got it to work finally. :-)
If there is a kudo that is missing in the previous thanks, I would like to include it here. You make linux (ubuntu) simple.
Dean