When we create any document, window appears like following. Now, Apache OpenOffice is installed on our system.
We can open Apache OpenOffice by either of these two commands $ ln -s /Volumes/OpenOffice/OpenOffice.app/Contents/program/soffice /usr/local/bin/soffice.To open OpenOffice globally on terminal, we need to create a link of soffice (which is an executable command used to open Apache OpenOffice from command line) into /usr/local/bin. For this purpose, we use following command. We need to mount this to Volumes directory. The downloaded file exists in disk image format inside Downloads directory. This will download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 on our MacOS. In order to install Apache OpenOffice on MacOS, we need to download the latest release of Apache OpenOffice by its official website or by simply pasting the link into the browser's search bar. This includes various steps described below.
In this tutorial, we will install OpenOffice on MacOS. It was first developed by Apache Software Foundation and released on May, 2012. It is very much similar to other popular editors like Libraoffice and Neooffice. How to install OpenOffice on MacOS ? IntroductionĪpache OpenOffice is a software bundle which contains various software tools like word processor, spreadsheet, database management, etc.