i’ve been using the older version of openoffice and i wanted to upgrade to 3.0 in ubuntu.  well it is not as easy as … i download the files and then click upgrade.  there are repositories that i need to download in order to install them properly.  you will be using ppa (personal package archive) in order to have such of installation.

so what i did in order to have this upgrade automatically is the following steps:

1. first you will need to open “synaptic package manager“
2. go to “third-party software” tab and then click on “add”
3. add this following line
   deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
4. now reload the package information the synaptic package manager and then upgrade