
If you experience problems using the "update" process, please remove the old OpenOffice 3.x packages manually. Due to directory structure changes in Apache OpenOffice 4.0, your older OpenOffice 3.x should be deleted entirely by a new install or update process.This will NOT remove LibreOffice, this will only disallow LibreOffice to redirect the normal OpenOffice binary - typically /usr/bin/soffice - to LibreOffice instead. (see your favorite reference for how to do this). If this is symlinked to LibreOffice, remove the symlink. Check to see if LibreOffice has re-routed the OpenOffice binary.These should be taken to assure that you have a clean install of Apache OpenOffice due to internal considerations and/or the installation of LibreOffice, if it exists on your system. The following pre-installation steps are recommended for Linux distributions. How do I install Apache OpenOffice 4.0 on Linux?


1.2 RPM or DEB: Download to Installation Directory, Unpack.1 How do I install Apache OpenOffice 4.0 on Linux?.
