Debians OpenOffice.org Website

Debian has OpenOffice.org packages for the three flavours:

• Old Stable (Sarge): 1.1.3
• Stable (Etch): 2.0.4
• Testing (Lenny): 2.4.0
• Unstable (Sid): 2.4.0

Just 'apt-get install openoffice.org'.

OpenOffice.org 1.1.x supports the i386, PowerPC, SPARC and S390 archectures as linux versions. There was an ARM port founded and completed so ARM is now supported too (upstream in 1.1.5, and not (yet) enabled in Debian).

OpenOffice.org 2.x does support the i386, PowerPC and SPARC architectures as linux versions.

Newer versions also do support the x86_64/AMD64/EM64T/Intel64 architecture

Some people are working to get OpenOffice.org running on Linux-ALPHA, -IA64 (Itanium) -MIPS(EL) and -HPPA.
For informations about that, please go through this site. You will find any things about the state of the package, installation and building the Debian package, the buglist and also the webarchive of the debian-openoffice mailinglist.

Latest news

2006-10-03: 2.0.4~rc3-1 accepted

2.0.4~rc3-1 was accepted. It fixes the crashes on start, when opening stuff, the hangs etc. Do *not* report any more bugs because of that. It *is* fixed and when you don't yet have binaries for your arch, please wait (I uploaded powerpc)

2006-09-23: 2.0.4~rc2-1 accepted

The 2.0.4~rc2-1 upload was just accepted into the archive, enabling amd64. (There are still some known crahses in there; will be fixed in rc2-2. Also there is a "broffice.org" package which transforms a OOo installation into a BrOffice.org one

2006-09-13: News from amd64

At the ongoing OpenOffice.org conference this year we talked about the state of the amd64 and how stable it is. It seems to be that most of the issues arre fixed in 2.0.4 and only some remaining (help crashing, patch available).

So we are going to try this out and enable amd64 packages for the next upload to unstable. Yay. :-) Let's see how that works fufficiently good for the upcoming etch release... If it turns out to do not it might get disabled again but I hope it won't

2006-07-01: 2.0.3-1 for amd64 uploaded

I uploaded 2.0.3-1 amd64 packages to people.debian.org. Due to it being 2.0.3, it's now here.

As done for a few releases already, debs built for amd64 native are at people.debian.org (so currently at http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.0.2/experimental. I'll try to keep these packages up-to-date and in sync with the "normal" packages in unstable, where the architecture-indep packages are to be found anyway

And please, please don't use old and unofficial cruft like the ones from ftp://ftp-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/debian/oo64/!

But still, if you want a OpenOffice.org with production quality, use the i386 one, either in a chroot, on a i386 system or using ssh -X. We also are working on "fake" _amd64.debs containg the 32-bit stuff for installing on native machines built directly with the _i386 debs which is 99% done.

I am also wondering about uploading those debs to Debian experimental but this might quickly get a dependency nightmare (depending on when what is built) and I'd need to increase the debian revision anyhow somehow, so I don't think I'll do that. You will be able to get the debs from the above (or a similar) URL anyway. Maybe even apt-gettable in the future ;-)

2006-03-08: 2.0.2-1 uploaded; help finally in main again; sarge backport updated

openoffice.org 2.0.2-1 was finally uploaded today, but because it has new binary packages they are in NEW. You know the story... A good message with this upload is that - although it increases build and upload size immense - , thanks to work by Fedora and Martin Kretzschmar the help can now (and is) built from the "normal" openoffice.org source and therfore will be in main instead of contrib. Yay!

Also, the sarge backport got updated to 2.0.1, including the help in contrib

2005-11-21: 2.0 sarge backport available on backports.org

The sarge backport of OOo 2.0.0-2 is done and will be available on backports.org when the archive setup is coplete there. For now, you can get it from www.backports.org/pending/openoffice.org (see http://www.backports.org).

Currently, this is i386 only, maybe powerpc will follow later...
Note that this backport is built with Blackdown Java 1.4 because otherwise I would have to backport gcc-4.0 etc, too (because of gij)..

You can get it with the following sources.list line:
deb http://www.backports.org/pending/openoffice.org ./

2005-10-22: 2.0 uploaded to unstable

It's done! openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 was just uploaded with target unstable. Because it has NEW binary packages again (and was renamed back to openoffice.org) it again waits for FTP master approval in the NEW queue. For the time they are stuck there I've put them onto http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x.

2005-08-27: 2.0beta2 (build 125) uploaded to experimental

2005-07-31: 1.9 (build 121) uploaded into experimental

2005-07-06: 1.9 (build 114) uploaded into experimental

2005-06-12: 1.9 (build 108) uploaded into experimental

2005-06-07: 1.1.4 uploaded into unstable

2005-02-23: 1.1.4 uploaded into experimental

2004-11-30: 1.1.3 now in unstable

2004-10-31: 1.1.3 uploaded

2004-07-09: 1.1.2 now in unstable

2004-06-28: 1.1.2 uploaded

2003-12-15: Test Woody backport of OOo available

2003-10-24: 1.1.0-2 uploaded to main!

2003-10-20: 1.1.0-1 enters testing

2003-10-01: 1.1.0-1 enters unstable

2003-08-22: Package building page updated

2003-08-22: Debian packaging team joins forces with Ximian

2003-08-20: freenet.de mirror URL change

2003-08-16: 1.1rc1 enters unstable, new spellcheck package layout.