Open Office On Ubuntu

[OnOff]

Does anyone have a link to good guide on installing Open Office 64-bit on Ubuntu, )well Zorin 8 64-bit). I've followed a few guides I've found but something's not working!

Cheers

 

[OnOff]

https://www.liberiangeek.net/2013/08/apache-openoffice-4-0-releasedheres-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu/

Read all before installing.....

Cheers. That's a guide I followed one time..........I'll do it again and post screen shots from the terminal when It goes wrong!

 

[steptoe]

have you tried libreoffice?

 

[OnOff]

Not keen on Libre and find Open Office better compatible with MS word tbh. Screen dump below, mean anything:

 

[steptoe]

ok, your home folder should be

/home

an easy way to find stuff if you are unsure as to where it will download is to make the desktop the default download destination.

 

[OnOff]

If I'm reading this correct Open Office is installed......but where?

 

[steptoe]

top left on apps bar,

search

'open'

this is assuming Zorin looks like vanilla ubuntu,  :C

if you find it there, left click hold and drag it to the apps bar

 

[OnOff]

Still no joy. Had the Zorin Look Changer set to Windows 7 (Zorin really takes you "away" from the Ubuntu look and feel, you might as well be using Windows) so switched to Gnome 2 view for the apps bar. Open Office not there..............

 

[steptoe]

do you need to call it in a terminal?

i know with my DVR I have to run it from a terminal, but then it goes GUI for me

what issues are you having with libreoffice btw?

I use it for everything, and most of my customers use either apple or windows,

actually, I think all of them do, I doubt any of them use Ubuntu or any other Linux, apart from the apple people [that dont know they do,  :slap   ]