Step-by-step – OpenOffice Elementary OS 6 Installation

Installing

2. 2. Downloading OpenOffice

   Download OpenOffice for Elementary OS GNU/Linux

   OpenOffice tar.gz Installer

   Downloading OpenOffice for Elementary OS

   Possibly, on Firefox Prompt Choose “Save File”:

   

3. 3. Extracting OpenOffice Archive

   Then Extract OpenOffice into /tmp Directory
   If it does Not Open automatically then Double-Click on File Manager:

   
   Or from Command Line:

   tar xvzf ~/Downloads/Apache_OpenOffice*.tar.gz -C /tmp/

4. 4. Installing OpenOffice

   Then to Install OpenOffice
   Access the Target Directory, for the US English version use:

   cd /tmp/en-US/DEBS

   In case to find out the Folder name use:

   ls /tmp | LANG=C grep -E '^.{5}$'

   Then to Install All the OpenOffice stuff play:

   sudo dpkg -i ./*.deb

   Again to integrate it into the Desktop:

   cd desktop-integration

   And Install the Desktop Menus Package with:

   sudo dpkg -i openoffice*.deb