Unofficial Apache OO Debian repository Files

The Debian packages from this repository are the same as provided by the Apache Foundation on its web page [1]. This repository aims to provide a easier way for installation of the Apache OpenOffice (AOO) on Debian and derivative desktops while it is not available in the official repositories.

[1]https://www.openoffice.org/download/

Since the packages from this repository are digitally signed, to perform the installation process you will need to add our public gnupg key to the APT keys database as follows, via terminal:

$ sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/apacheoo-deb-repository.gpg https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/apacheoo-deb/debian/apacheoo-deb-repository.gpg

$ sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/apacheoo-deb-repository.gpg

To install AOO on your computer, you need to add (or change from previous version "bullseye" to "testing") the following entry to the /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/apacheoo-deb/debian testing main

After that, install the core packages and language package according your language. e.g. for Brazilian Portuguese you need to type this on terminal:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install openoffice-brand-pt-br openoffice-brand-writer openoffice-brand-calc openoffice-brand-impress openoffice-brand-base openoffice-brand-draw openoffice-brand-math openoffice-pyuno openoffice-ooofonts openoffice-ooolinguistic openoffice-debian-menus

Thus the packages will be downloaded and installed on your computer.

*NOTE: You can use any other manager to install packages, such as synaptic.

If your desktop is GNOME, we also recommend installing the gnome-integration as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install openoffice-gnome-integration

To run the AOO from the terminal, just type the this:

$ /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice

Alternatively, if you have also LibreOffice installed, we recommend that you uninstall it, so there are no conflicts between applications, and add the directory of AOO executable to the PATH variable doing this:

$ echo "export PATH=$PATH:/opt/openoffice4/program" >> ~/.bashrc $ . ~/.bashrc

Then just type in terminal:

$ soffice

To upgrade a system that already has the AOO 4.1 installed, just type this:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y -t testing upgrade

*Note: If during the update process you get a warning about the expiration of our public GnuPG key, don't worry, you just need to update the public key on your APT keys database typing this:

$ sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/apacheoo-deb-repository.gpg https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/apacheoo-deb/debian/apacheoo-deb-repository.gpg

$ sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/apacheoo-deb-repository.gpg

*Note: To upgrade a system that already has the AOO 4.0 installed, during the upgrade process you will notice the following error: ... Unpacking openoffice-core01 (4.1.11-1) over (4.0.1-5) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice-core01_4.1.11-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/opt/openoffice4/program/libnss3.so', which is also in package openoffice-core07 4.0.1-5 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) ...

To fix it, just run this command again:

$ apt-get -y -t testing upgrade

*NOTE: For while, it's impossible to upgrade an older version just using "apt-get dist-upgrade". Therefore, before installing the new version 4.1, it's highly recommended to uninstall the old version as follows:

$ sudo apt-get autoremove --purge openoffice.org3-pt-br ooobasis3.4-pt-br-binfilter openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org3-calc openoffice.org3-impress openoffice.org3-base openoffice.org3-draw openoffice.org3-math ooobasis3.4-pyuno ooobasis3.4-ooofonts ooobasis3.4-ooolinguistic openoffice.org-debian-menus

After that, simply install the new version of AOO as explained earlier.

Any questions, just contact us through our mailing list Apacheoo-deb-user apacheoo-deb-user@NOSPAM@lists.sourceforge.net.