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?
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.
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)
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.
