I've already removed all the LibreOffice apps in the suite via Ubuntu Software Center.
I've tried to install Openoffice 3.4 on my machine a few different ways:
Via the instructions found on http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/05/how-to- ... 4-via.html
(RESULT: Tried to open Openoffice in the DASH. Nothing except blank bar at top of screen [where it usually displays the name of the active application])
Via downloading the Openoffice package directly from the openoffic.org website's auto-download function on the home page
(RESULT: Discovered from another thread [on the oooforum.org] that the auto-download button downloads the RPM package while Ubuntu uses DEB)
SOoooo........
Downloaded the appropriate package (Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz)
Followed the following directions (from "Ed"):
However, when I attempted the desktop integration, from the Ubuntu Software Center, I encountered an error.Download the package to your desktop, then right click on the package and select "Extract Here".
Now open a terminal and enter
Code:
cd ~/Desktop/en-US/DEBS
Then
Code:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Enter your password when requested, then the actual installation will start.
Now install the desktop integration package by opening the "en-US" folder on your desktop, then go into "DEBS", then "desktop-integration", and double click on the only file in that folder and follow the on-screen instructions.
You can now delete the original package and the extracted "en-US" folder from your desktop.
Attempted to perform the desktop integration from the terminal. Returned the following:
Attempted to delete the offending "soffice" file from /usr/bin but returned permission denied error message (I'm the administrator, only user, etc.)(Reading database ... 176860 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openoffice.org-debian-menus (from openoffice.org3.4-debian-menus_3.4-9593_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org3.4-debian-menus_3.4-9593_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package libreoffice-common 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1
/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
openoffice.org3.4-debian-menus_3.4-9593_all.deb