Deploy OpenOffice.org using package managers

You can use some of the most popular package managers and software installation tools to install OpenOffice.org for each platform (Solaris PKG, Linux RPM and DEB, Mac OS X DMG, and Windows MSI). This includes the command line interface to deploy OpenOffice.org through the network.

RPM Based Linux distributions

The RPM package manager is a powerful tool you can use to deploy software packages both locally and throughout a network.

These instructions assume you have downloaded and extracted the OpenOffice.org installation files.

Install

1. Become root if necessary

   su -

2. Change directory to:

   <OpenOffice.org_unzip-dir>/RPMS

3. The RPMS directory contains RPM packages for OpenOffice.org as well as Gnome and KDE integration.
   • For users with KDE, you can remove the Gnome integration RPM:

   rm openoffice.org-gnome-integration-<version>.rpm

   • For users with Gnome, you can remove the KDE integration RPM:

   rm openoffice.org-kde-integration-<version>.rpm

4. Install into the standard /opt directory

   rpm -ivh *.rpm

   If you prefer to install OpenOffice.org in a different location, use the -prefix option. rpm -ivh –prefix <install-dir> *.rpm

5. To install the OpenOffice.org in the menus:

   cd desktop-integration

   Find the RPM for your specific Linux distribution and install it:

   rpm -ivh openoffice.org-<distribution>-menus_<version>.rpm

You can safely delete the OpenOffice.org installation packages after the install is complete.

Uninstall

Do not delete the OpenOffice.org files from the file system. You must use either the OpenOffice.org Java setup or the RPM package manager to uninstall OpenOffice.org.

1. Become root if necessary

   su -

2. Create a file 'ooo_packages' with all OpenOffice.org related RPM packages

   rpm -qa | grep openoffice > ooo_packages

3. Check the content of this file carefully. All packages in this list will be removed. This list does not include the JRE package that was installed if you used the OpenOffice.org installstion set that includes JRE.
4. To remove all OpenOffice.org related packages:

   rpm -e 'cat ooo_packages'

DEB Based Linux Distributions

The APT or DPKG package manager is a powerful tool you can use to install, update and remove DEB packages, and is provided as part of some Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu.

If you have the RPM package and do not want to download the DEB package, you can convert the RPM files to DEB files using the following command: sudo alien -d --scripts *.rpm

There are installation scripts written that may be useful for experienced users. For more information see the following: http://installation.openoffice.org/source/browse/installation/setup_native/scripts/

Install

1. Become root if necessary

   su -

2. Change directory to:

   <OpenOffice.org_unzip-dir>/DEBS

3. The DEBS directory contains DEB packages for OpenOffice.org as well as Gnome and KDE integration.
   • For users with KDE, you can remove the Gnome integration DEB:

   rm openoffice.org-gnome-integration-<version>.deb

   • For users with Gnome, you can remove the KDE integration DEB:

   rm openoffice.org-kde-integration-<version>.deb

4. Install into the standard /opt directory

   dpkg -i *.deb

   If you prefer to install OpenOffice.org in a different location, use the --instdir=<directory>option. dpkg -i --installdir=<install-dir> *.deb

5. To install the OpenOffice.org in the menus:

   cd desktop-integration
   dpkg -i openoffice.org-debian-menus_<version>.deb

You can safely delete the OpenOffice.org installation packages after the install is complete.

Uninstall

Do not delete the OpenOffice.org files from the file system. You must use either the OpenOffice.org Java setup or the DEB package manager to uninstall OpenOffice.org.

1. Become root if necessary

   su -

2. To remove all OpenOffice.org related packages:

   apt-get remove openoffice.org*