Install OpenOffice 3.2 in Fedora 12

Default Fedora installation comes with AbiWord installation and it helps greatly to our day to day word processing works. Only word processing is not enough todays context and we mostly need to create presentations, drawings and do some basic maths calculations. For our world Sun gives OpenOffice as a complete office package as Microsoft does.  In this blog I talk about the openoffice 3.2 installation in fedora 12.

step 01:

OpenOffice used sun JRE as execution platform. So first it needs to install JRE in you’r machine. You can download new JRE from sun site  and install it (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp).

Note : Adition to JRE installation it may need to install sun SDK if you plane to do some programe stuff  with JAVA SE. If you plane to install SDK then it install both development environment and also JRE. For that follow below steps.

Download SDK rpm package (Currently version is jdk-6u20-linux-i586-rpm.bin) and follow http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/install/jdk/install-linux-RPM.html steps to correct installation.

Step 02:

After installation JRE then you can download OpenOffice package from OpenOffice download site (http://download.openoffice.org/other.html). Please note that to choose correct OS and 32/64 bit version.

Step 03:

Then go to package download directory and extract the package.

1. tar xvzf OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_xxxxxx.tar.gz
   This will create a source directory with the OpenOffice.org installation. The directory will have a rather long name but be prefixed by “OOO3…”.
2. su to root, if necessary, and navigate to OpenOffice.org installation directory, the OOO3… source directory.
   Since the default packaging of OpenOffice.org for Linux is RPM, you will likely need to be root to run the rpm command.
3. cd into the RPMS subdirectory of the source directory.
   You should see a lot of rpms here and one sub-directory called “desktop-integration”.
4. Install this new version by typing rpm -Uvih *rpm.
   By default, this will install OpenOffice in your /opt directory.
   
5. Finally, cd to desktop-integration. Depending on your package manager/system, install the appropriate desktop interface. For Fedora it needs to choose red-hat based openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9472.noarch.rpm. So issue rpm -Uvih openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9472.noarch.rpm command.

Step 04:

Still things may be not working. It may be rise “/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstlport_gcc.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied” issue. You need to execstack some libraries.

(execstack is a program which sets, clears, or queries executable stack flag of ELF binaries and shared libraries – man pages)

execstack -c /opt/openoffice.org/ure/lib/libstlport_gcc.so
execstack -c /opt/openoffice.org/ure/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
execstack -c /opt/openoffice.org/ure/lib/libstdc++.so.6

Now you can enjoy OpenOffice facilities in you’r favorite Fedora distribution.