Pressure of work has kept me away from anything but essential OpenOffice.org tasks recently. However, after seeing the announcement about OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 (which I didn’t have any part in writing ) I couldn’t resist the temptation to do a quick download.

I’m an Ubuntu user, which means I should really wait for an updated version to appear in the repositories. However, this takes time, plus the Debian folks tend to force everything through a political correctness filter that breaks something. So, I decided to use the ‘alien’ .rpm files.

For those who haven’t seen the process before, it looks like this (you’ll note I don’t bother installing the KDE stuff or the Test Tool):

me@mypc:/tmp$ tar -xzf OOo_2.0.4_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
me@mypc:/tmp$ rm OOD680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9073/RPMS/openoffice.org-kde-integration-2.0.4-5.i586.rpm
me@mypc:/tmp$ rm OOD680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9073/RPMS/openoffice.org-testtool-2.0.4-5.i586.rpm
me@mypc:/tmp$ sudo alien -i OOD680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9073/RPMS/*.rpm

and while it’s doing that, go off and update your blog .

When it’s finished, check that everything has worked – e.g. by starting Writer:

me@mypc:/tmp$ /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/swriter &


and then remove all the installation files:

me@mypc:/tmp$ rm OOo_2.0.4_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
me@mypc:/tmp$ sudo rm -rf OOD680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9073
and enjoy exploring the new features!

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