How to install OpenOffice.org 3 on Ubuntu 8.10

[ Thanks to Stephane Gaudreault for this link. ]

"First method :

"First, we need to remove OpenOffice 2.4 from our computer:

"sudo apt-get --purge remove openoffice.org-core

"After, we must add the repository "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main" without the quotes to the file "/etc/apt/sources.list". You can use gedit, kate or your favorite text editor like this:

"sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

"or

"sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list

"Once done, we must update the repository list and do the installation:"

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