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OpenOffice.org is both an open source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It combines the key desktop applications--such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, drawing program, mathematical editor, database application and web page design tool--with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

Available in 25 languages with more being constantly added by the community, OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows. Additional ports, such as for FreeBSD, IRIX, and Mac OS X, are in various stages of completion.

Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL Open Source licenses, OpenOffice.org allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source. And because the file format for OpenOffice.org is XML, interoperability is easy, making future development and adoption more certain.

SUN sells a commercial office suite based on OpenOffice.org, called StarOffice. Students can download it free from sun.com.

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Getting OpenOffice.org

The easiest way to get OpenOffice.org is from your distribution however this versions might not be the most current. For that reason is advisable to download OpenOffice.org from it's website at http://www.openoffice.org.

OpenOffice.org has some difference with other Linux applications as it has no dependencies so an installation from the website is relatively safe and wont get into dependency hell.

Once you go to the OpenOffice.org website you will be able to see the Download button which will send you to a mirror chooser in order to maximize the speed of the download. It will also ask you for the version and OS of your prefference.

Installing OpenOffice.org

As in OpenOffice.org 2.0 the installation process changed from .tar.gz to rpm. The RPMs will also have a different installation process whenever you choose the package manager or install through the rpm command.

Debian, Slackware and OSX have their own repositories to install on their systems however users can also install them through an application called alien. The results have been consistently good. If you experience any issue you are welcome to contact OpenOffice.org support mailing lists or visit the FAQ and Kowledge Base.

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