I am running LABS3 stable on a Debian Lenny Server (no gui) I installed openoffice.headless 2.4 (lenny package) and I configured the custom-repository.properties
If I start LABS3 soffice will be started too.
Later in Alfresco I am not able to preview openoffice files and if press the little i button I get "500: Internal server error"
it depends, how did you configured OO. In my installation also on Debian Lenny (no gui) i've installed OO 3 and configured only in /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-repository.properties ooo.exe=/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice ooo.user=${dir.root}/oouser
I don't know if You must remove the previous version if yes then "apt-get –purge remove openoffice-*" then
download for example OOo_3.0.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz from http://download.openoffice.org/other.html tar -zxvf OOo_3.0.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz then enter DEBS folder and dpkg -i *.deb openoffice should install in /opt/openoffice.org3