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Asked by Glen Mereen

I have ubuntu 2008 edition bootable installation CD. I just want to install Open Office for now can this be done? Or can I get a live CD that would boot from the CD drive

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Ian Fleming (iflema-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Hi Glen...

Install open office from 8.04 install media to what?

Why for such an old version of ubuntu?

looking for stable/not sure about 10.04/must be LTS?

What version of open office you chasing?

If you use a live-cd you can just save your work to the local hardrive........

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

8.04 is still supported. It's supported until April 2011. So is not "old" at all as it gets full updates just like the rest of the other supported releases.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

If you have an internet connection you can run:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add these 2 lines:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

Save the new file and close gedit

then run:

cd ~/; wget http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/extra/LINUX/small/key; sudo apt-key add ~/key; rm ~/key; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get --reinstall install openoffice.org

in the blank file paste this code, save the file and close gedit. You will then have openoffice 3.2 for hardy:

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