Upgrading Open Office 2.0.2 to 2.2.1

Ubuntu Dapper Drake comes with Open Office 2.0.2

Lately I experienced that my OO installation had started crashing when I tried to open some Microsoft powerpoint files. A few google searches revealed that some others also faced similar problem. But since the latest Open Office 2.2.1 is currently not supported by the Dapper repository, I was struggling with this issue.

I read this post and decided to try upgrading to 2.2.1 and the good news is that it worked......

Here is what I did (following the post indicated above)

1. Using Synaptic Manager, I uninstalled all Open Office 2.0.2 programs
   
   
2. Downloaded the latest deb package for Open Office using the following wet command
   
   wget http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/misc/openoffice/localized/
   finnish/stable/2.2.1/latest/OOo_2.2.1_LinuxX86_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
3. Unpacked the resulting file using the archive package manager
4. cd into the resulting DEBS directory
5. Installed all the deb file using the command
   sudo dpkg -i *.deb
6. Integrated the new OO installation in the menu by
   cd DEBS/desktop-integration
   sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.2-9161_all.deb

I will now test the new upgraded version for the crashes that I was facing earlier.

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Free online Ubuntu Books

Digg had a post which provides links to following free Ubuntu books.

1. Moving to Ubuntu Linux
2. The official Ubutu Book
3. Ubuntu Unleashed
4. Ubuntu Hacks

here is the link to the post on VNTUTOR blog



I am sure these will come in handy for me,

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