Open Office comes pre-installed in ubuntu 8.04. The following steps are to install all the components of openoffice in ubuntu.

At the terminal type :
$ sudo apt-get install openoffice* (The * is very important)

This will install openoffice through the ubuntu repos.

Now if you want to install openoffice through its official website :

1. Go to it's download page and download the linux deb file save it at the desktop. (You can save it anywhere, but I'm taking an example of saving it to the desktop.)
2. Extract the files on the desktop.
3. At the terminal write the following commands :

$ sudo apt-get remove openoffice*
$ cd Desktop/OOH680_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9286/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
$ cd desktop-integration
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

This will install OpenOffice through it's official packages.

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