[Solved] Mint - Anyone know how to install AOO on Mint?

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Glyn
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[Solved] Mint - Anyone know how to install AOO on Mint?

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I have Mint 18.3. It came with Libre Office, but the spellcheck doesn't work. Uninstalled LO using the software manager. Downloaded Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.5_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-GB, unpacked it and now I have a huge box of assorted files. Anybody know what to do next?
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Re: Mint - anyone know how to install OO on Mint?

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How I install OO on a deb-based distro:
In a terminal I use

sudo apt purge libreoffice*
(note the trailing *)' this will remove all traces of libreoffice

Now do this: from the downloaded deb file extract the en-GB folder; don't go below it
cd Downloads/en-GB/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

and OO should show up in your Office folder.
(all the above commands are in a terminal).
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Re: Mint - anyone know how to install OO on Mint?

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Well, I'll be blowed, as they say round here. Entirely perfect. Thank you
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Remember the method, as you may need to do this again with a version upgrade of Mint.
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LibreOffice 7.6.2.1 on Xubuntu 23.10 and 7.6.4.1 portable on Windows 10
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