In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of Apache OpenOffice on your CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, Apache OpenOffice, commonly known as OpenOffice.org or OpenOffice, is an open-source office productivity software suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by-step installation of Apache OpenOffice on a CentOS 7 server.
Install Apache OpenOffice on CentOS 7
Step 1. First, let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.
yum clean all yum -y update
Step 2. Download Apache OpenOffice Linux Package.
Follow the below steps to download OpenOffice and extract a tar file:
### 32-Bit ### wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.2/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz tar xzf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz ### 64-Bit ### wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.2/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz tar xzf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
Remove OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.org Packages with the following command:
yum remove openoffice* libreoffice*
Step 3. Installing Apache OpenOffice.
You will see a list of RPMs packages inside the en-US directory. Install all RPMs packages using the following command:
cd en-US/RPMS/ rpm -Uvh *.rpm
Now install the desktop integration features for your setup. Go to desktop-integration in the installation directory, and install the required package:
cd desktop-integration/ rpm -Uvh openoffice4.1-redhat-menus-*.noarch.rpm
Step 4. Accessing Apache OpenOffice.
After successfully installed all the packages start Openoffice using the following command:
openoffice4
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Apache OpenOffice. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Apache OpenOffice on CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Apache OpenOffice website.
