Go to /opt/openoffice.org3/program and pick soffice (/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice):

Now that you have /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice in the Command field, you can close the Create Launcher window and leave the menu editor:

Now start OpenOffice 3.0.0 (Applications > Office > OpenOffice 3.0.0 Writer):

When you run it for the first time, you will be asked to follow the wizard:

Afterwards you can pick which OpenOffice program you want to use, ...

... e.g. OpenOffice Writer:

3 Uninstalling OpenOffice 3.0.0

If you want to uninstall OpenOffice 3.0.0, run this command...

sudo apt-get remove ooobasis3.0-base ooobasis3.0-binfilter ooobasis3.0-calc ooobasis3.0-core01 ooobasis3.0-core02 ooobasis3.0-core03 ooobasis3.0-core04 ooobasis3.0-core05 ooobasis3.0-core06 ooobasis3.0-core07 ooobasis3.0-draw ooobasis3.0-en-us ooobasis3.0-en-us-base ooobasis3.0-en-us-binfilter ooobasis3.0-en-us-calc ooobasis3.0-en-us-draw ooobasis3.0-en-us-help ooobasis3.0-en-us-impress ooobasis3.0-en-us-math ooobasis3.0-en-us-res ooobasis3.0-en-us-writer ooobasis3.0-gnome-integration ooobasis3.0-graphicfilter ooobasis3.0-images ooobasis3.0-impress ooobasis3.0-javafilter ooobasis3.0-kde-integration ooobasis3.0-math ooobasis3.0-onlineupdate ooobasis3.0-ooofonts ooobasis3.0-ooolinguistic ooobasis3.0-pyuno ooobasis3.0-testtool ooobasis3.0-writer ooobasis3.0-xsltfilter openoffice.org3 openoffice.org3-base openoffice.org3-calc openoffice.org3-dict-en openoffice.org3-dict-es openoffice.org3-dict-fr openoffice.org3-draw openoffice.org3-en-us openoffice.org3-impress openoffice.org3-math openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure

... and delete the launcher in the menu, or, if you have installed the OpenOffice desktop integration package, run

sudo apt-get remove openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus

If the package names differ (e.g. because you've installed OpenOffice in another language than I did) and the sudo apt-get remove command displays an error, you can find the correct package names by running

dpkg --list | grep -i ooobasis3.0

and

dpkg --list | grep -i openoffice.org3

Links

• OpenOffice.org: http://www.openoffice.org/
• Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/