1y ago

I installed Apache OpenOffice

I downloaded Java, Removed LibreOffice, and installed OpenOffice. I see all the icons, and everything, but when I click on it to open it, NOTHING happens. I just, wont open, I uninstalled, and reinstalled it. and I dont know what to do. Can anyone please help me?

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I downloaded Java, Removed LibreOffice, and installed OpenOffice.
Why ? O.O
pls tell us,
Dont bother with openoffice, go back libreoffice ^^"

Here's what you do:
Remove OpenOffice
Install LibreOffice
OpenOffice is discontinued a long time. Last time updated was 4.1.6 on Jan 25, 2019
- Last major release, 4.1, was 2014. It's a dead duck.

I don't have solutions, but I have a pressing question: why?
I'm not sure OpenOffice is even supposed to work nowadays.
(Anyway, maybe try running from a terminal. Usually programs log the errors into it.)

OpenOffice is dead. Use literally anything else if you want it to work properly.

Even Oracle, a company that funds OpenOffice and has its own proprietary fork of it, doesn’t use it internally. Oracle internal laptops come with libre office installed.

Try to launch OpenOffice via the command line and see if you get any errors, that might help you with what to search for.

The reality that OpenOffice is dead since a decade aside and you only want to try it for experiment reasons and not for actually using it: What happens instead? Do you get any error messages? Try running it from a shell and see if you get any useful output.

Why do you need OpenOffice? It isn't maintained

All these people saying "Just use LibreOffice" are missing the point: if they ask about a program, then that means they have a usecase for said program.
This isn't StackExchange; let's not repeat that cycle.
Edit: Changed "is" to "are". Lol.
- Sure, but they may also be unaware OpenOffice is unmaintained and its worth pointing out.
  
  Then those people should say that as an addendum or side-note to an attempted answer to OP's question, not as a replacement for said attempted answer.
- This is only correct when the software in question isnt abandonware from 2014
  
  Eh, I can see where you're coming from, certainly, but I feel it's a slippery slope from this stance to full-blown StackOverflow levels of ignoring-the-question.

Go for LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. Both can be installed natively or with Flatpak or Snap (or maybe AppImage) is a safer bet.
btw, OpenOffice is not discontinued, and AUR of Arch Linux has the binary version : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openoffice-bin Last Updated: 2024-01-17 09:32 (UTC)
- https://rocket9labs.com/post/its-time-to-let-go-apache-software-foundation/
  
  Thanks.

Try onlyoffice. It has excel, weird, and PowerPoint alternatives, very compatible with Microsoft office, and looks like it was made this century. If you need any of the other apps then I'd look into something else.

It's decades old is is probably broken. Run from the console and see what happens. More than likely it's a core dump.

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