Upgrading Open Office 2.4.1 to 3.0.0 in Intrepid

OS: UBUNTU 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
Kernel: 2.6.27-3-rt
Date: March 29th, 2009

Hey everyone,
Well have you seen Ooo 3.0.x, It completely rocks, I mean with Ooo 2.4.1 I had too many issues like completely killing my system resources: I don't know about everyone but 2.4.1 was obviously too heavy on my system - it used to make everything run in slow motion, sometimes completely hang up. However even after (quite long after) releasing Ooo 3.0.0 I couldn't get update for Open Office through synaptic. So I searched a little bit and here is solution if anyone need to use 3.0.0 instead of 2.4.1 on Hardy or Intrepid. And ya if you are thinking of having Jaunty (9.04) then no worries Ooo 3.0.0 comes with it.
So here is the way you can upgrade 2.4.1 to 3.0.0:

P.S. I've done this on Intrepid(8.10) However I'm trying to post it for Hardy(8.04) as well, For Hardy please try it on your own. I'm just posting the best possible way to so it.

Add Open Office.org 3.0 repositories:
Go to

• System -> Administration -> Software Sources
• (OR System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager Then Settings -> Repositories)
• Go to Second tab Third-Party Software
• Click on Add button and paste following line as it is - This one is for Intrepid I haven't tried it for Hardy but still try to put which generally works - TRY IT ON YOUR OWN.
• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
• Now for Hardy you should try something like:
• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu Hardy main
• Get an authentication key from: here (You may want to right click on link and select option save link as Save it as whatever you want - officekey would be appropriate but hey its your choice).
• Now in the same Software Sources Navigate to Authentication tab
• Click on Import Key File, Navigate to your key file (officekey if you go by name suggested by me) Select the file and press OK.
• You will see the new entry as: 247D1CFF 2009-01-21 Launchpad PPA for OpenOffice.org Scribblers.
• If this way of adding key doesn't work for you then try the other way that I've suggested in previous post (specially for Hardy) - but ya I'm not sure.
• Press Close and then press Reload else if you are in synaptic package manager then press Close and click on Reload button.
• You will have that upgrade/update icon glowing in your task bar (System tray). Just update your system and you will have all new Ooo 3.0 which will stay updated all the time.

And ya the next post will be about installing Open Office.org on 8.10 completely from scratch or after removing previous version - if anyone doesn't like upgrading.

This solution was posted at: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Install-OpenOffice-org-3-0-in-Ubuntu-8-10-96449.shtml (Last checked March 29th, 2009)