Bjorn Says

Switching from Oracle OpenOffice.org to Libre Office

As you all know, a while back Oracla acquired a couple of other companies, amongst other things leading the great OpenSolaris Operating System getting ditched. Oracles acquisition of Sun gave them somewhat control of the OpenOffice.org-product as well … It seems quite clear that Oracle aren’t the “nice guys” the former owners were, and are in a sense looking to get rid of stuff that doesn’t make money and prevent anyone else from using that stuff, and to turn some stuff that doesn’t make money into stuff that makes money.

Oracles take-over lead to a few developers from the OOo-project to leave and found a new project. They took what source they could and created a free office-package that isn’t tied to Java the way OOo was under Suns reign of virtual machine terror.

On Linux at the moment, I figured I might as well just delete OOo and install Libre immediately and have it out of the way.

So, I downloaded the correct build for me here (i take the stable builds, i’m not as adventorous as some others out there): http://www.libreoffice.org/download . I picked deb-packages, x64 since I’l on Linux Mint 9 64bit. I also picked a langpack and a helppack seeing as how I’m Swedish and all that.

Next step was to uninstall OpenOffice, i issued this in the terminal:

sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*

Which promptly removed all OOo-packages (I hope).

Next, I unpacked the .tar-balls I downloaded from libreoffice.org under the downloads-library, and went on to install it:

sudo dpkg -i LibO_3.3.0rc4_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/*.deb

After that I installed the desktop integration like so:

sudo dpkg -i LibO_3.3.0rc4_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.3-debian-menus_3.3-6_all.deb

And finally install the swedish langpack …

sudo dpkg -i LibO_3.3.0rc4_Linux_x86-64_langpack-deb_sv/DEBS/*.deb