How to Install New Free StarOffice 8 on Ubuntu ?

I suspect Google have a special deal with Sun to allow them to redistribute Star Office, and that doesn't extend to the Linux version.

Maybe wine can do it ?

I am writing so you can now my story on Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2. I hope this helps in some way. Yesterday I installed Star Office using the Goggle Pack and installed Star Office 8 and everything went fine. Next day, I tried to open Star Office but I couldn't. The problem seems to be that in order to download Star Office you must first download goggle updater( is like a download manager but informs you about updates and lets you install and remove stuff), which does not integrate well with Windows XP. Maybe I just needed to save to the disk the goggle updater instead of running it. I just followed the recommendations so beware if you use a dual partition like me.

You can download StarOffice for free at its site somewhere on a hidden place, if you don't use it for commercial things. However, I didn't manage to install it on my ubuntu feisty...

I found the problem on a german site(http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/StarOffice_8_Installation): You can't install openoffice and staroffice next to each other. .. BTW: The free download of StarOffice is for educational use only, and you have to make a sun account first. More information about it one this page: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/solutions/staroffice.html.

YEAH, I finally installed it :D

Be sure you have installed the package rpm("sudo apt-get install rpm") and you haven't installed openoffice("sudo apt-get remove openoffice.org openoffice.org-writer")
Then cd to the directory where the file is located(so-8-pp7-bin-linux-en-US.sh) and type: "sudo sh so-8-pp7-bin-linux-en-US.sh"
Just do enter when the script asks where it must unpack theinstaller, and within a few seconds the installer will be started. Now you have a nice OpenOffice with a StarOffice logo and an ugly font!

just use star office 8 cds to solve this problem