Install on Ubuntu Mate or Gnome 20.04

[eipapp6]

Hello,

I have been trying to download and install open office 4.x with no success.
My biggest problem, quite frankly, is I have "never" been able to successfully install ANY tar files.
Is there a way to download a non-tar deb file that I can install an use on my Ubuntu 20.04 ?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Bruce

[RoryOF]

Change to your Download directory, to which you have downloaded the tar file. Then

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tar vxf the_full_name_of_the_file.tar.gz.

this will unpack the file into a folder with name something like en-US in the downloads folder.
Change into that folder, then into DEBS folder in it
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sudo dpkg -i *.deb

cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Do not omit the desktop integration part.

[Villeroy]

You don't need to install OpenOffice. Your distribution comes with a better office suite called "LibreOffice". It is the successor to OpenOffice. OpenOffice is walking dead.