Howto: Installing OpenOffice 3.2 on Linux | RHEL 5 | RHEL 6 | CentOS | 32bit and 64bit
Hello,
Warning:- As We know RHEL/CentOS is consider as a stable So I have performed this howto on Stand Alone RHEL/CentOS, So Requesting you to not perform this on production directly. If you are not sure then first test this and then try to perform on Production or Critical Server.
This is the very basic howto but useful for Beginner. Most of the facing difficulties to Install OpenOffice on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In Ubuntu lots of Repositories already configured.
In Fedora you’ll Find OpenOffice in DVD itself. So You can easily install OpenOffice on Fedora and Ubuntu.
But In Red Hat Enterprise 5 and 6, there is no package selection for OpenOffice. So You can to Download it from internet and You have to install it.
There are several ways to install OpenOffice on RHEL, You can Download and install by using source package and also You can install it by configuring Repository, But today we are going different methods not Install.sh and no repository, we’ll install it by using RPM Method.
This article for 32bit and 64bit systems.
To Install OpenOffice Perform Following steps to Install OpenOffice 3.2 on 32bit Linux :-
1) You have to be a “root” user to install OpenOffice 3.2 on you RHEL
2) Go to Provided Link below :-
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/OpenOffice-dot-org-Download-253.html
3) Click on Red Hat/Fedora/Mandriva/openSUSE RPM (3.2.1 Stable) (x86) to Download OpenOffice 3.2 for 32bit.
4) Wait until Download get finish. It will take few minutes to complete Download.
5) Once Download get finished. Extract OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz for 32bit. To Extract file perform Following.
For 32bit :-
Open Terminal -> Execute tar zxvf OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
6) Now Change your directory to OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.
# cd OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US
7) In Same Directory You will find Folder call RPMs.
[root@ask4itsolutions OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US]# cd RPMs
8) Now We have to Install All RPMS to Install OpenOffice 3.2. Execute Following Command.
[root@ask4itsolutions RPMS]# rpm -ivh *.rpm
If everything goes fine then OpenOffice gets installed. But By performing above step OpenOffice gets install but you’ll not able to see OpenOffice Selection in Applications Menu. For that you have to Perform Following Step.
9) In RPMs directory there is one more directory called “desktop-integrates“. Now Lets Switch to that Directory and install Red Hat Related Desktop Integration RPM.
[root@ask4itsolutions desktop-integrates]# rpm -ivh openoffice-desktop-redhat-xxx.rpm
Once Desktop Integration RPM get installed You’ll able to See Open Office Selection in Application Menu.
10) That’s It. OpenOffice for 32Bit is Successfully Installed.
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To Install OpenOffice Perform Following steps to Install OpenOffice 3.2 on 64bit Linux :-
1) You have to be a “root” user to install OpenOffice 3.2 on you RHEL
2) Go to Provided Link below :-
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/OpenOffice-dot-org-Download-253.html
3) Click on Red Hat/Fedora/Mandriva/openSUSE RPM (3.2.1 Stable) (x86_64) to Download OpenOffice 3.2 for 64bit.
4) Wait until Download get finish. It will take few minutes to complete Download.
5) Once Download get finished. Extract OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz for 64bit. To Extract file perform Following.
For 32bit :-
Open Terminal -> Execute tar zxvf OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
6) Now Change your directory to OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.
# cd OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US
7) In Same Directory You will find Folder call RPMs.
[root@ask4itsolutions OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US]# cd RPMs
8) Now We have to Install All RPMS to Install OpenOffice 3.2. Execute Following Command.
[root@ask4itsolutions RPMS]# rpm -ivh *.rpm
If everything goes fine then OpenOffice gets installed. But By performing above step OpenOffice gets install but you’ll not able to see OpenOffice Selection in Applications Menu. For that you have to Perform Following Step.
9) In RPMs directory there is one more directory called “desktop-integrates“. Now Lets Switch to that Directory and install Red Hat Related Desktop Integration RPM.
[root@ask4itsolutions desktop-integrates]# rpm -ivh openoffice-desktop-redhat-xxx.rpm
Once Desktop Integration RPM get installed You’ll able to See Open Office Selection in Application Menu.
10) That’s It. OpenOffice for 64Bit is Successfully Installed.
That’s it Guys. Hope you like this howto Its Very basic but mostly some people find it very difficult.
If You are facing any difficulties please post your errors in comments section.
Waiting for your feedback Guys.
Enjoy OpenOffice on RHEL 
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Very good steps for installation that i ever seen
error: can’t create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
u dun a good job.. keep gng on.. can u plz tell me how to install wine…
Please advice how to install wine in RHEL 5/6 .
I am very glad to find your site as you made perfectly for Linux users .
Thank for you effort ..
Hello,
Please provide me output of following command :-
# rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice
Waiting for your reply.
Hi,
I downloaded the 32-bit version. It said that packages has been installed.This is the output I got….
[root@localhost RPMS]# cd desktop-integration
[root@localhost desktop-integration]# ls
openoffice.org3.4-freedesktop-menus-3.4-9590.noarch.rpm openoffice.org3.4-redhat-menus-3.4-9590.noarch.rpm
openoffice.org3.4-mandriva-menus-3.4-9590.noarch.rpm openoffice.org3.4-suse-menus-3.4-9590.noarch.rpm
[root@localhost desktop-integration]# rpm -ivh openoffice.org3.4-redhat-menus-3.4-9590.noarch.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
package openoffice.org3.4-redhat-menus-3.4-9590.noarch is already installed
[root@localhost desktop-integration]#
May I know where I have gone wrong?
Thanks.
Sridhar.
Hi,
Followed the above given steps. Seems that everything went on well. But, no sight of Open Office in the Applications menu. Pl let me know what has gone wrong?
can u put anything about samba server what is it and how to make server client configuration by samba server
Thanks a lot Tejas…It’s working fine on my RHEL6_x86.
Your blog is really a great help for novices as well as geeks.
error: Failed dependencies:
libfreetype.so.6()(64bit) is needed by ooobasis3.3-core04-3.3.0-9567.x86_64
libgnomevfs-2.so.0()(64bit) is needed by ooobasis3.3-gnome-integration-3.3.0-9567.x86_64
libgconf-2.so.4()(64bit) is needed by ooobasis3.3-gnome-integration-3.3.0-9567.x86_64
muchas gracias, me sirvió demasiado (:
Hello,
Always Welcome……
ya got it:)
thnx alot!!!
Hello,
You are doing some minor mistake probably you are providing wrong path or wrong filename.
hi..
I m not able to perform last step…
For dis command:- “rpm -ivh openoffice-desktop-redhat-xxx.rpm”
it showing no such file or directory..:(
without last command can i able worn on office??
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Hi,
I havent tried that, Will update you after Checking it.
Thanks for Comment.
First of all, thanks for your howto. I can install OpenOffice as you describes in your document, but when I try to execute soffice in console, the program catches the control and doesn’t respond. I try to execute openoffice without GUI, and without desktop, only in console mode. Thank you in advance!
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