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I am new to Ubuntu and I am attempting to install OpenOffice. (Libre Office does not recognise conditional formatting and hence the dependant macros in my OO spreadsheets) and I am not prepared to write new ones).

I get a load of deb files. I understand that a deb file opens by double clicking it but which one comes first as I always get a message " Dependency is not satisfiable: openoffice"

I am trying to move from XP for obvious reasons.

I am having the same problem with Google Earth.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, but no technical dissertations please I like to lead a simple life.

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Open a command line (using Ctrl+Alt+t) navigate to that folder where all the .deb files are ( cd ~/Downloads/folder_name) and there do a sudo dpkg -i *openoffice*.deb provide the user password and that should be all.

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I just installed openoffice, and this is what I did:

First of all I removed libreoffice, to avoid conflicts:

sudo apt remove --purge libreoffice-*

At this point, I downloaded the package in my desktop (in my case, 64-bit architecture and Italian language it) from here. enter image description here

To install openoffice: first unpack the file with the command (the file version, architecture and language may be different):

tar xvzf ~/Desktop/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_it.tar.gz

Now we are ready for installation (Also here, the directory created corresponds to your language. In my case, it):

cd it/DEBS
sudo dpkg-i *. deb

the last step, install the links in the menu:

cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg-i *. deb

Now openoffice is installed.

References:

apache download page
askubuntu

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