How to install a ODF converter to view & open DOCX files in OpenOffice

**linuxmaveric** · July 11th, 2008

Microsoft office 2007 untilizes the .docx documents format. This is a simple tutorial on how to enable this feature in OpenOffice for Debian based or an Ubuntu Linux system using the command line.

Here are the .deb package downloads to install the ODF converter:

Install & Download the converter using the following commands at the command line:

For i386 users enter the following at the command line:

ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/ww...tdeb1_i386.deb

or

wget ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/ww...tdeb1_i386.deb

For Amd64 users:
http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/getde...deb1_amd64.deb

or

wget http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/getde...deb1_amd64.deb

Now to install the downloaded .deb package

i386 users use the following command at the command prompt:

sudo dpkg -i odf-converter_1.0.0-2~getdeb1_i386.deb

or

amd64 users use:

sudo dpkg -i odf-converter_1.0.0-2~getdeb1_amd64.deb

This should do it and I hope this helps out.

**be4truth** · July 12th, 2008

~$ wget ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/ww...tdeb1_i386.deb
--06:28:07-- ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/ww...tdeb1_i386.deb
=> `ww...tdeb1_i386.deb'
Resolving ftp-mirror.internap.com... 64.74.207.33
Connecting to ftp-mirror.internap.com|64.74.207.33|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR ww...tdeb1_i386.deb ...
No such file `ww...tdeb1_i386.deb'.

looks like the link for 32 bit is broken

**sarah.fauzia** · July 12th, 2008

Code:

wget http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/getde...deb1_amd64.deb
--00:18:16--  http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/getde...deb1_amd64.deb
           => `getde...deb1_amd64.deb'
Resolving cesium.di.uminho.pt... 193.136.19.148
Connecting to cesium.di.uminho.pt|193.136.19.148|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
00:18:17 ERROR 404: Not Found.

The link for the 64 bit is also broken. I hope these links are fixed!

**azer89** · July 12th, 2008

broken links for i386

too bad....

**linuxmaveric** · July 12th, 2008

re: links broken for i386 & 64bit.

I tried the following at the command line for i386:

wget ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/ww...tdeb1_i386.deb

& for 64bit users:

wget http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/getde...deb1_amd64.deb

and this worked just fine. I have my desktop set up to download packages/files straight to my "documents" folder in my home directory.

I hope this works for ya.

Double check your work and let me know if this works.

**be4truth** · July 13th, 2008

Originally Posted by linuxmaveric

re: links broken for i386 & 64bit.

I tried the following at the command line for i386:

wget ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/ww...tdeb1_i386.deb

& for 64bit users:

wget http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/getde...deb1_amd64.deb

and this worked just fine. I have my desktop set up to download packages/files straight to my "documents" folder in my home directory.

I hope this works for ya.

Double check your work and let me know if this works.

Nope: doesn't work.