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Quick and easy guide to upgrading your OpenOffice.org to 3.1 on Ubuntu Hardy, Intrepid, or Jaunty using the Scribblers PPA.

The OpenOffice.org Scribblers PPA has been updated to include OO.o 3.0.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron users.

Updated Ubuntu Tweak makes editing your sources.list file easier and has added OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 to its Third-Party Sources list for Intrepid Ibex users.

Seeing that the probability of OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 being backported to Ubuntu Hardy Heron is low, I look into how to install it on my own.

Source … ghacks.net Source … slashdot OpenOffice.org 3.0 is expected to be announced this Monday, October 13, in Paris as OO.o celebrates eight years of development. The latest version has been seen available for download at various mirrors for all of the supported platforms and source codes. Improvements to OpenOffice.org include supporting the Open Document [...]

Using a dark GTK theme sometimes causes OpenOffice.org 2.4.x applications to default to high contrast theme making them difficult to use. Here’s a workaround that forces OpenOffice.org to use an alternate GTK theme.