Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 Released on Nov 18, 2018. This version has Improvements to graphics, charts, forms, text annotations and accessibility feature. The Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 Release Notes provide an explanation of these changes. However,you should have the opportunity to migrate your old profile settings to the new profile area.
This how-to guide will help you to Install Apache Openoffice 4.1.6 on Ubuntu, Debian, and LinuxMint operating systems. If you are running LibreOffice or an older version of Apache OpenOffice, We recommend removing that from the system.
System Requirements:
- Linux kernel version 2.6 or higher, glibc2 version 2.5 or higher
- 256 Mbytes RAM (512 MB recommended)
- 400 Mbytes available disk space
- X-Server with 1024 x 768 or higher resolution with at least 256 colours
- Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6.x or Later
Step 1 – Check JAVA Version
As Openoffice4 required JAVA 8 ( Oracle Java 8) or later versions. So make sure you have installed correct version on your system. To check currently installed version using the following command –
java -version
If you do not have installed Java on your system, use one of below links to install latest Java version in your Debian based systems.
sudo apt-get install default-jdk
Step 2 – Download OpenOffice Debian
Download openoffice from Apache official site or from sourceforge.net as per your system configuration or Use the following command to download.
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.6/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.6_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz tar xzf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.6_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
After extracting archive it will create an installation directory named en-US, and placed all the files there.
Step 3 – Install Apache OpenOffice
Before installing OpenOffice make sure you don’t have installed LibreOffice on your system. If have, uninstall it using the following command.
sudo apt-get remove LibreOffice*
Now navigate to Apache OpenOffice installation directory and to its DEBS folder, You will see a list of Debian packages there. Install all packages using the following command.
cd en-US/DEBS/ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Now install the desktop integration features for your setup. Go to desktop-integration in the installation directory, and install the required package.
cd desktop-integration/ sudo dpkg -i openoffice4.1-debian-menus*.deb
Step 4 – Launch Apache OpenOffice
After successfully installed all the packages in the above steps, start Openoffice using following command.
openoffice4
Rahul,
Thank you for reminding about Java to be installed first.
Couldn’t find that on other sites.
Now, on my Ubuntu-Mate, as per your instruction, everything worked just fine until “cd desktop-integration/
sudo dpkg -i openoffice4.1-debian-menus*.deb”
It seems, OpenOffice has been downloaded, but not installed properly and, therefore not “seen” by the system.
So, could you please clear it out for me?
Thanks again,
Igor
13.02.2019
Ubuntu 18.04
Installed OpenOffice and ran it.
is this procedure also works for ubuntu 18.04
I was not able to get the openoffice4 command to work as per the tutorial but found that the package had been installed in the /opt directory on my MINT linux pc. After trying several promising names of shell scripts in the program directory (e,g., names like startup.sh which had the error “./startup.sh: 41: exec: ./startup.sh.bin: not found”). I found an unlikely script that worked called ‘soffice’ and set up a launcher for it.