If the answer is 'x86_64', then your system is 64 bits, if you obtain i386, i586 or alike, then your system is 32 bits.

If you are not sure which architecture is used by your system, open a virtual terminal (konsole on KDE, gnome-terminal on gnome.) and issue this command: It is also possible to have 32 bit systems on 64 bits computers.

Some Linux distributions using DEB packages: debian, ubuntu, Linux Mint Some Linux distributions using RPM packages: openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Mageia The right package to choose depends on your Linux Distribution: Note that you can install again LibO afterward but with the packages provided by its website, don't use the distro packages.Īnother point is that AOO cannot be easily installed side by side with old OOo versions so it is recommended to uninstall OOo first. To do so, you can use sudo apt-get purge libreoffice* (you may have also to sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get autoclean) on *ubuntu and sudo yum remove libreoffice* on fedora. To my knowledge, two distributions that have such problems are *ubuntu and fedora: on those distros you need first to uninstall LibO to install AOO. Notice that these problems are completely artificial and came from some decisions made during packaging: on other distros like openSUSE, this does not happen.

But for some Linux distributions it is not that easy: when they switched from (the heavily modified version of) OOo to the (also modified version of) LibO they packaged their versions of LibO in a way that cause conflicts with OOo or AOO. NOTE: In general, AOO can be installed side by side with LibreOffice (both suites use different directories). For additional information about the integration of OpenOffice in the repositories of your distribution, see: Linux Apache OpenOffice

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