Ubuntu Unleashed: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released!

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released!

Labels: Applications, Howto, News Posted by defcon on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM

If you've been looking out for OpenOffice.org 3.0 or are just looking for a new software package to try out this afternoon, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta has been released. OpenOffice.org 3.0 integrates ODF 1.2 support, Microsoft Office 2007 Import Filters, charting enhancements, improved note capabilities in Writer, new icons, enhanced pdf export, multi-monitor support for impress, and a start center. For Mac OS X users, OpenOffice.org 3.0 will now run without the need for X11 to be installed. In addition, there are bug-fixes and other minor features that make up this beta release.

OpenOffice 3.0 release candidate is expected on July 25, while the final release isn't expected until September 2, 2008.

Release Notes Here
Full Feature List Here

Download the Ubuntu Version here

Download the Linux rpm w/o Jre Here

Download the Linux rpm w/Jre here

Download for all other Operating systems and get extra info here

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sunmorgus 0p · 881 weeks ago

I am having trouble figuring out how to install this. Can you provide any help?

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Danny · 881 weeks ago

I don't know how to install this either. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04.

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Francois · 881 weeks ago

The extention is *.deb.tar.gz

Install "file-roller" in synaptic package manager

Then use it to uncompress the file

Now you get a file with the extention *.deb

Install "gdebi" in synaptic package manager

Then double click the "*.deb" file to install it

Hope it works, I didn't try.

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Danny · 881 weeks ago

Getting that far was not my problem. When I unpack the file, it has lots of debs and I don't know which ones to install. I tried to install the ones that looked like they were, for example, for writer but I would get dependency errors. I tried installing a bunch of the debs that looked like they were the core packages but that didn't work.

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Dirken 0p · 881 weeks ago

had the same problem before, really want to try this new version out but which package has to be installed first? Also some packages give me the error message that they can't be installed or are already installed!