Download OpenOffice 3.3.

0 RC1 Installation
Install Openoffice.org 3.3 (debian package) on Ubuntu/Debian/LinuxMint: First : Remove all the packages from the installed version Go to Synaptic or your package manager and mark all the openoffice.org packages installed to be removed (there is the string ubuntu in their version number). This is mandatory for your first upgrade of the distro delivered OOo version, no need to do that for the following upgrades. For Ubuntu (flavors prior to Jaunty 9.04), the system will also remove the ubuntu-desktop package. No worry, this is a meta package that can be removed safely. But in case you want to upgrade your whole distro, you'll have to install back this package (and the OOo original version). To remove from terminal :
sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*

Second : Download the debian package, and install them by following these steps : For us language the package is :OOo_x.x.x_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz Now extract using the command :
tar xzvf OOo_x.xx_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

Now cd the extracted directory :

cd OOOxxx_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/

The software is installed using the dpkg -i command. Type the following command, to install the software:
sudo dpkg -iR DEBS/

If you already had an older version already upgraded to 3.2.1 which you did not uninstall, dpkg will upgrade it rather than installing both versions at once. Removing : To remove a package, use the following command:
sudo dpkg -r openoffice.org

Install Openoffice.org 3.3 RC on RPM based Linux systems : Fedora / Centos /Redhat: Installation 1To install the software for all steps users, su to become : superuser.

2- Extract the package with the following command (Change xxx with your current version in the

extracted file):
tar -xvf OOo_x.x.x_xxxxxxxx_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz

3- cd to the folder that the tar command created.

cd 000xxx_xx_native_packed-1_en-US.xxxx

4- To install the software for all users, type the following to become superuser:
su -

5- Grant permission to open a graphical display for root, using the authority from your user account. This is necessary for security reasons on some systems, while on other systems adequate security is provided without this
XAUTHORITY=/home/{username}/.Xauthority; export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY=:0.0; export DISPLAY

6- Start the setup program and follow the instructions.

./setup

7- If you su to install for all users, exit the superuser shell:

exit