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Posted: **Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:48 pm**

Without specific instructions

, it appears that one simply unpacks the compressed file and uses the package manager of choice to install a .deb file.

Couple problems: which .deb and why doesn't it work?

Unpacking the .gz creates /en-US and under that is readmes and debs. Readme was pretty worthless, and there are too many debs. The ones of interest appear to be (and I'm just guessing here):
openoffice_4.1.2-3_amd64.deb
openoffice_4.1.3-1_amd64.deb
openoffice-en-us_4.1.2-3_amd64.deb
openoffice-en-us_4.1.3-1_amd64.deb

The first two return:
Dependency is not satisfiable: openoffice-ure
And the second two return:
Dependency is not satisfiable: openoffice-core01

Musings:
The previous simple setup routine used to work pretty well, but a package should work even better. If I didn't need to temporarily uninstall to get something else running, everything would have been fine. I wonder if I had installed some other way before. By the way, too bad it doesn't open .abw files. Damnation! What a lot of hassle.

Posted: **Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:01 pm**

Do

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sudo apt purge libreoffice*

Then

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cd ~/Downloads/en-US/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2017 1:54 am**

You, Sir, are an absolute lifesaver. Those steps sure did the trick. I love simple steps. Even better, every setting is back where it was before the removal.

Thank you very much.

PS: Could you please post a sticky for installation with those steps? It would help a lot of people.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:25 am**

Isn't that the basic method of installing anything via dpkg on (x)ubuntu?

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2017 5:44 am**

Who would know? The basic (and recommended) method is to use Ubuntu Software Center, and dpkg doesn't come into the picture.

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