OpenOffice 3 is rumored to be officially released on Monday Oct. 13 (Today, technically). It was reported that the distribution was already being sent out to the mirror locations, though no official link to them was made readily available. But by simply copy-pasting-editing the link from openoffice.org I was able to download the .deb distribution to my Asus eee PC 900 running Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1:http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=linuxinteldeb&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0
Once downloaded and unpacked, I ran the update script:
./update /usr/lib/openoffice/
This installed OpenOffice 3.0 to /opt/openoffice.org3/ . Now I needed to do some digging and figure out a nice way for the slick Netbook-Remix interface to launch OOO 3 instead of 2.4. So I edited /usr/bin/ooffice to look like this:
#!/bin/sh
# /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice "$@"
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice "$@"
This may not be the best practices way of accomplishing this, but it worked for me! Enjoy!
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