Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- Copyright and trademarks
- Feedback
- Versions of this document
- Preface
- Typographical conventions
- System requirements
- Obtaining the software
- Information for all platforms
- Windows installation
- Mac OS X installation
- Linux installation (RPM)
- Debian installation
- Solaris installation
- First program startup
- Adding functionality with extensions
- Updating OpenOffice.org
Debian installation
Debian installation
The following instructions apply to Linux systems which use the Debian Package Manager as the
software management system.
If your distribution’s version of OpenOffice.org is installed, it is recommended that you use the
Package Manager (Synaptic) to uninstall it before installing a version from OpenOffice.org.
Installing
The software is installed using the dpkg -i command.
1. Login as root or from the GUI, open a root terminal.
2. Type the following command, to install the software:
dpkg -i -–force-overwrite openoffice.org*.deb \
desktop-integration/openoffice.org-debian-menus*.deb
If you already had an older version which you did not uninstall, dpkg will upgrade it rather
than installing both versions at once.
3. Install any language packs needed for OpenOffice.org.
Removing
To remove a package, use the following command:
dpkg -r openoffice.org
This will remove the openoffice.org package (-r is short for --remove).
Note: You enter openoffice.org when uninstalling, while the entire .deb filename is given at installation.
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