If you have a server there is no need of the GUI interface, is there?
A good linux admin will never need it. So I am removing it, here are …
Open office 3 Ubuntu
Install/Update Open Office 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04
The update method did not wokr for me.
So First we will need to complete remove the current office instalation.
system>administration>synaptic package manager
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