OpenOffice 3.0 on Intrepid with PDF import

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February 2, 2009

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Just installed OpenOffice 3.0 on my Ubuntu 8.10 and also added the extension for PDF import. Since OOo 3.0 didn’t make it into Intrepid anymore, there’s a bit of manual work involved, but nothing too serious.

  • Add the OOo repository to your apt setup
    Edit the sources.list file:
    sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
    And add the following line to it:
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
  • Import the GPG key for this new repository
    gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 60D11217247D1CFF
    gpg --export --armor 60D11217247D1CFF | sudo apt-key add -
  • Update the software list and install the updates
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade
  • Install the PDF import extension
    Download the extension for your OS version (Linux or Linux x86-64)
    Open the extension with OpenOffice and install it (of course, you have to accept the license agreement)

And now you should be able to import PDFs in OOo! 🙂