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Since Wheezy, OpenOffice.org is a freely available cross-platform office suite similar to rival Microsoft(R) Office, with good support for .doc, .xml and other formats.
OpenOffice.org is a complete office suite including a word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation and drawing modules. It is capable of opening most Microsoft Office documents.
How to install OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is part of the default Debian desktop system but if you need to you can install it manually using the following packages:
To install OpenOffice.org, do the following:
aptitude update aptitude install openoffice.org
Java Environment
Some components don't work fine with the default Java Environment provided by the Free Software Foundation. For example, inserting audio files into OpenOffice.org/Impress doesn't work.
OpenOffice.org (created by Sun Microsystems) recommends using Sun Java Runtime. This package is provided by Debian/Etch, but OpenOffice.org doesn't depend on it. So you must install and configure it manually:
Activate "non-free" section on your repository configuration
Install sun-java5-jre
Open OpenOffice.org and go to the menu: Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Java
- Activate: "Enable Java Environment"
Switch from Free Software Foundation to Sun Microsystems JRE provider
Restart OpenOffice.org.
Extending functionalities
Extend OpenOffice.org by installing these packages (information from the package web site):
myspell-dictionary : Myspell dictionaries for use with OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-help : User help
openoffice.org-thesaurus : Thesauri for the use with OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-hyphenation : Hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org
ooqstart-gnome/oooqs-kde : Quick start applet for Gnome/KDE desktops
openoffice.org-gtk-gnome /-kde: Gtk/KDE UI Plugin and Gtk/KDE File Picker
openoffice.org-mimelnk: OpenOffice.org MIME bindings
menu : Will add openoffice.org menu entries for every Debian window manager.
unixodbc : ODBC database support
cupsys-bsd : Allows OpenOffice.org to detect your CUPS printer queues automatically
libsane : Use your sane-supported scanner with OpenOffice.org
libxrender1 : Speed up display by using Xrender library
xlibmesa-gl / libgl1: OpenGL support
openclipart : Open Clip Art Library
msttcorefonts : Installs standard MS truetype fonts (contrib). From Debian Lenny and on: ttf-liberation contains free versions of Arial, Courier and Times New Roman.
Fixing Interoperability Problems
See Substituting Calibri and Cambria Fonts.
OpenOffice.org in Debian is maintained by a team
Team maintenance is co-ordinated using
the debian-openoffice mailing list, debian-openoffice
and #debian-oo on FreeNode IRC.
http://openoffice.debian.net - The main page
Launchers
Writer: /usr/bin/oowriter
Web Writer: /usr/bin/ooweb
Calc: /usr/bin/oocalc
Draw: /usr/bin/oodraw
Impress: /usr/bin/ooimpress
Math: /usr/bin/oomath
Debug: Get a backtrace
Debugging symbols are packaged in openoffice.org-dbg. Please refer to HowToGetABacktrace for further information. To get going with gdb please run the following commands.
$ gdb /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
Read HowToGetABacktrace on how to proceed.
External links
http://www.openoffice.org - OpenOffice.org Homepage
http://www.gnome.org/projects/ooo - GNOME OOo project.
Use MS-Access databases in OpenOffice:
The easiest way, see gmdb2.
http://dba.openoffice.org - OpenOffice Database Access (Less evolutioned) (OpenOffice Database Mailing List)
http://www.ooowiki.de/Writer2MoinMoin - converts OpenOffice Writer documents into source code for MoinMoin Wikis (like the one you are using in this very moment
) (german)