“I don’t understand why OpenOffice is not present in repositories any longer and why the OO developers don’t offer Appimage.” Basically, because Apache does not have sufficient development staff.

“I prefer OpenOffice”
Why do you prefer OpenOffice to LibreOffice? They’re pretty much the same product, except LO is being actively developed and gets regular updates and OO has been pretty much stagnant since 2014.

OpenOffice should be offered as Appimage. That would be easier and would allow to have it next to LibreOffice. I don’t understand why OpenOffice is not present in repositories any longer and why the OO developers don’t offer Appimage. Personally, I prefer OpenOffice. In my Mint the default Y-theme doesn’t like OO though…

That MAY have been true when you first wrote this article. However, for the past 6-7 years LibreOffice has been the office suite that is installed by default in the majority of Linux distros. The last significant release of OpenOffice (4.1) was in 2014.

Since then, there were only point releases introducing mostly cosmetic changes. The reason for that is that the OpenOffice team has been steadily losing developers to the point that there are not enough of them left for Apache to maintain a vigorous development pace. OpenOffice is falling further and further behind other office suites.

OpenOffice has support for 41 languages while LibreOffice supports 119 at the latest count – three times as many.

The above instructions call for installing Java first, then OpenOffice – two separate operations. If the first one does not complete successfully, as has happened to several posters, the installation of the office suite cannot proceed. Since at least LibreOffice 3.x, Java and Java Runtime Environment have been part of the default install of the LO suite.

Let’s admit it, Apache Open Office is a niche product.

@Naveed,

First remove the LibfreOffice first from the system, because you can’t install both LibreOffice and ApacheOffice on same Linux box.

file /usr/bin/soffice from install of openoffice4.1.3-redhat-menus-4.1.3-9783.noarch conflicts with file from package libreoffice-core-1:5.0.6.2-5.el7_3.1.x86_64