After searching the forum, I did not locate any useful How-To for installing OpenOffice. This How-To is generated from the OpenOffice Instructions and my own personal experience.
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You will need to either use root or sudo. You make the call based on your own studies.
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Though Kali should not have a LibreOffice or OpenOffice package installed, it's a good idea to verify to be sure you don't run into trouble.
Code:
# apt remove libreoffice* openoffice*
Next, OpenOffice does not use any standard repositories, so we get the package from sourceforge.net (it's up to you to verify the download's signatures).
Code:
# wget sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.5/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.5_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
(If you want a different version other than the US English 4.1.5 version, merely navigate in your browser to https://sourceforge.net/projects/ope....mirror/files/ and work out from there, substituting the requisite folders in your wget command. Also, pay attention to your language/county designation, you will also have to substitute <en-US> in later commands to correlate with whatever you substituted <en-US> for in wget.)
To extract , use the following commands per the instructions from the OpenOffice guide.
Code:
# tar -xvzf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.5_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
Now, to install with dpkg.
Last, desktop integration with dpkg.
Code:
# cd /desktop-integration
You should now find OpenOffice in your all applications menu.
Enjoy!