Can't install OpenOffice.org 2.0

[gschimek]

I just finished doing a dist-upgrade from Ubuntu Warty to Ubuntu Hoary. After doing that, I tried installing openoffice.org 2 from Synaptic package manager and got the error when I tried to select it.

openoffice.org2:
Depends: openoffice.org2-core but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org2-writer but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org2-calc but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org2-impress but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org2-draw but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org2-math but it is not going to be installed

I tried selecting all the openoffice.org2 files at once but it gave me the same eror.

I thought about installing from the OOo site, but their instruction say that when you untar the file, you get a bunch of RPM files that you need to install. Can I do that on a Debian distro like Ubuntu?

[JamminJoeyB]

I'm not an expert on debian based systems, but isn't there a way to force apt-get to do something. I know it's probably not recomended since it could miss a dependancy or something like that.

OO.org only being in RPMs? Check the oo.org site again. I thought they had an installer for oo. The last time I installed oo on slackware it didn't come in RPM.

I have less trouble with things when I compile from source if I can't find a binary.

[psych-major]

When I checked a few days ago, 2.0 was RPM only. I went ahead and installed the 1.x version from source and it works great.

[mrhoyt4]

Download the rpms from openoffice.org and use alien to convert the rpms to debs. Then run dpkg -i --force-overwrite <filename>. A couple of the packages have the same files in them so you have to run --force-overwrite to get them to install. Then it should be in your /opt directory.

It works for debian sarge so it probably works in ubuntu.

[strangei]

The new version of Open Office (V.2) depends requires a Java runtime to work properly. The database application in particular requires it. Since Java is a proprietry product owned by Sun, it does not conform to the Debian Projects requirements for Open Source Application. Some distros are modifying OO2 to use an open source java implementation but most of these are incomplete at this time, I don't know if ubuntu have done this.

you could try logging onto a console as root.
type apt-get update
apt-get install OpenOffice2

you will probably get errors - but they should tell you what
dependencies are missing.

alternatively you could install OpenOffice1 as it can run without the Java runtime - and all the dependent files should be present in the ubunto repository.