The latest versions of K/Ubuntu came with very, very late betas of OpenOffice.org 2, but since then OOo came out of beta, but K/Ubuntu hasn't been updated. Fortunately, in open source fashion, one Ubuntu user has compiled OOo2 & made it available for users to download. I'm using it, & things work just fine. To upgrade your OOo2, you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file, AKA your repository list if you use Synaptic. I use the command line, so I first ran this:

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Then I added this line:

deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/OOo2 ./

I saved & closed the file, & then ran the following commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

APT wanted to update OOo2, so I told it to go ahead. A bit later, I had the latest & greatest OOo2 running on my Kubuntu machine. Beautiful.

(For more on this stuff, see this post on the Ubuntu Forums.)

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