Inaccurate Installation Info
Whilst openoffice does have it's issues, I believe that it is a good if sometimes slow to start package but enough of opinion......
'Since this isn't an Ubuntu package, it doesn't have Ubuntu integrations' is quite frankly incorrect an ill researched.
I have installed the beta previously on Ubuntu 8.04 and the now stable on 8.10.
Firstly you uninstall the 2.4 openoffice from your system.
Download the deb version .tgz and untar. (this is available from any of the mirrors)
Open a terminal, change into the directory where you extracted to, in my case: OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358
and type
./update
This then installs the main openoffice 3.
Then:
cd DEBS/desktop-integration
and finally
dpkg -i openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb
And surprise surprise all the nice pretty icons under: Application > Office on the gnome menu.
A word of advice for the author, whilst some time has been spent on the article, it has not been properly researched and a few minutes spent on google would have been time well spent.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
