For additional information about the integration of OpenOffice in the repositories of your distribution, see: Linux @ Apache OpenOffice
NOTE: In general, AOO can be installed side by side with LibreOffice (both suites use different directories). But for some Linux distributions it is not that easy: when they switched from (the heavily modified version of) OOo to the (also modified version of) LibO they packaged their versions of LibO in a way that cause conflicts with OOo or AOO. Notice that these problems are completely artificial and came from some decisions made during packaging: on other distros like openSUSE, this does not happen.
[Note: *ubuntu here means all the differing Ubuntu based versions]
To my knowledge, two distributions that have such problems are *ubuntu and fedora: on those distros you need first to uninstall LibO to install AOO. To do so, you can use sudo apt-get purge libreoffice* (you may have also to sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get autoclean) on *ubuntu and sudo yum remove libreoffice* on fedora. Note that you can install again LibO afterward but with the packages provided by its website, don't use the distro packages.
Another point is that AOO cannot be easily installed side by side with old OOo versions so it is recommended to uninstall OOo first.
For parallel installs, see below.
Download the right package
AOO is available here:
http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html
There are several packages for Linux
- Linux 32-bit RPM
- Linux 32-bit DEB
- Linux 64-bit RPM
- Linux 64-bit DEB
Some Linux distributions using RPM packages: openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Mageia
Some Linux distributions using DEB packages: debian, ubuntu, Linux Mint
Your system can be 32 bits or 64 bits. It is also possible to have 32 bit systems on 64 bits computers. If you are not sure which architecture is used by your system, open a virtual terminal (konsole on KDE, gnome-terminal on gnome...) and issue this command:
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uname -i
Now you need to download the right package
- For 32 bits rpm
AOO up to version 3.4.1: Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_<version>_Linux_x86_install-rpm_XX.tar.gz
AOO from version 4.0.0: Apache_OpenOffice_<version>_Linux_x86_install-rpm_XX.tar.gz - For 64 bits rpm
AOO up to version 3.4.1: Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_<version>_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_XX.tar.gz
AOO from version 4.0.0: Apache_OpenOffice_<version>_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_XX.tar.gz - For 32 bits deb
AOO up to version 3.4.1: Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_<version>_Linux_x86_install-deb_XX.tar.gz
AOO from version 4.0.0: Apache_OpenOffice_<version>_Linux_x86_install-deb_XX.tar.gz - For 64 bits deb
AOO up to version 3.4.1: Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_<version>_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_XX.tar.gz
AOO from version 4.0.0: Apache_OpenOffice_<version>_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_XX.tar.gz