Package Details: openoffice-bin 4.1.16-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/openoffice-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: openoffice-bin
Description: The Free and Open Productivity Suite
Upstream URL: https://www.openoffice.org
Licenses: Apache
Conflicts: openoffice-base-bin-unstable
Replaces: openoffice, openoffice-base-bin
Submitter: disastro
Maintainer: None
Last Packager: disastro
Votes: 47
Popularity: 0.55
First Submitted: 2021-01-02 03:55 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-07 08:56 (UTC)

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Sources (2)

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InnerPeace commented on 2025-12-07 10:36 (UTC)

@disastro You are right, too. Switch to libreoffice is really better!

disastro commented on 2025-12-07 09:00 (UTC)

With GTK2 reaching end of life 5 years ago, and Arch finally dropping it now, I am disowning this. I have pushed a final untested(!) update to the latest version.

My personal recommendation is that people move to maintained software like libreoffice (also an openoffice.org fork) or onlyoffice (more MS Office feel) as replacement.

DrJ commented on 2025-12-02 09:05 (UTC) (edited on 2025-12-02 09:07 (UTC) by DrJ)

@InnerPeace: This package is outdated. You needed to download the PKGBUILD file and patch it the following way:

12c12
< pkgver=$_vmaj.1.14
---
> pkgver=$_vmaj.1.16
41,42c41,42
< sha256sums_x86_64=('680614656e1c5625b39111af37ff2e144b90cf0b3028c6e7d63bbd41ffc5863e')
< sha256sums_i686=('f20abdd86b9fbf4518fa80955048c0d6098569d78340b06c9567029509b03652')
---
> sha256sums_x86_64=('063e6b192c7a3c2ff03caa46091eb8836b48e28778f094233f90cac0c3cbd680')
> sha256sums_i686=('17a60f3801dbf1eb5753d1cdc7f2ed96f48a72c28a21204d2239d61e218c1f02')

After that you can build it manually:

makepkg -srcC 
sudo pacman -U openoffice-bin-4.1.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Hope that helps ... Cheers

InnerPeace commented on 2025-11-23 11:34 (UTC) (edited on 2025-11-23 11:35 (UTC) by InnerPeace)

Today, I tried to install openoffice from aur, but I got the error:

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://downloads.apache.org/openoffice/4.1.15/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.15_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

Aborting...

Maybe the server is being maintained or hacked? Now I must wait until it becomes stable?

DrMartinus commented on 2025-11-16 16:13 (UTC)

This is the OpenOffice package. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. To install it as Libreoffice is therefore not possible. While OpenOffice is still maintained by some developers, the maintenance seems to be insufficient. I use it to overcome some issues that appear in LibreOffice, but at least for me, OpenOffice is not up to current standards any more.

simona commented on 2025-11-15 16:19 (UTC)

a way to install with different file name as libreoffice?

TheExplorer commented on 2025-05-16 07:30 (UTC)

@maid As a temproray solution you can substitute both sha256 hashes with 'SKIP' in the PKGBUILD.

maid commented on 2025-05-15 19:14 (UTC)

Old look is good for old peoples.

Missing sha256sums for non US "Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.15_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_${_lang}.tar.gz"

TheExplorer commented on 2024-01-21 09:34 (UTC)

In order to get the modern look and feel (not that Windows 98 crappy interface) you should add the 'gdk-pixbuf-xlib' package to the 'depends=' field.

jan666 commented on 2023-11-13 22:32 (UTC)

Nice to see that you implanted language switching!

But i think you need to add to download the sha checksum according to the chosen language? if you change the language the build will fail because of the wrong checksum.

The checksums are available within each language directory

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