How can I install OpenOffice? [duplicate]

Hi I'm new to Ubuntu having finally given up the ghost with Windows 8! On Ubuntu 13.04, I've used the Software Centre to install a number of apps including Skype. However OpenOffice is proving very tiresome.

This is the download:

Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

It won't install from the Software Centre, or from double click. Right click doesn't offer an install option.

2 Answers

Well first thing to do is remove Libreoffice if its installed. Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then to install OpenOffice you do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/openoffice
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache-openoffice

I just tested it on 13.04, and it works.

For Ubuntu 14.04 and above download either the 32bit or 64bit of Apache OpenOffice.

For 32 Bit:

wget
tar xzf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

For 64 Bit:

wget
tar xzf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

once extracted, navigate to the DEBS folder where the file was extracted, and issue the command(s) below:

cd en-US/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Then navigate to the desktop-integration folder, and issue the command(s) below:

cd desktop-integration/
sudo dpkg -i openoffice4.0-debian-menus*.deb

^{Source for OpenOffice Install:Upubuntu}

or you can install "Libre Office" which is totally identical with the former OpenOffice which declared as a fork to that project by Oracle. More info is at : Difference between LibreOffice and OpenOffice

use Terminal and write :

1- if you already found it in Ubuntu and wand to have the latest version :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

2- OR if you didn't have it installed just write :

sudo apt-get install libreoffice