16.04 - Trouble installing Open Office

I'm trying to install OpenOffice on ``Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit.

1. I uninstalled LibreOffice per the command line

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-core

2. I originally downloaded the Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz , unzipped it on the Desktop and manually went through, double clicking on every *.deb package and letting the software center install it. This did not work. There was no item in the menu for OpenOffice and there was nothing when I did a search.





3. I then tried to install the DEBs from the command line:

   
   
   

   
   

   cd en-US/

   
   
   

   cd DEBS/

   
   
   

   sudo dpkg -i *.deb

   
   

This did not work either

4. I then tried another removal of LibreOffice just to be sure:

sudo apt-get purge libreoffice

And still there was nothing in the menu even when searching. A command line command of "soffice" only yielded "/usr/bin/soffice: 175: exec: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash: not found"

5. I then tried

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/office

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openoffice

sudo apt-get install libxrandr2:i386 libxinerama1:i386

sudo chmod a+rx /opt/openoffice4/share/uno_packages/cache

Still received the same results as before.

6. I then tried the following

   
   
   

   
   

   cd desktop-integration/

   
   
   

   sudo dpkg -i *.deb

   
   

Still, same results as above

7. I then downloaded the newest JRE 64 bit and unpacked/installed in the /usr/java directory.

sudo tar zxvf jre-8u111-linux-x64.tar.gz

And still don't have a working OpenOffice.

Is this a wild goose chase? Does OpenOffice simply not work on Ubuntu 16.04? Is there something I'm missing or something else that I should do? Thanks.

Try to use the GDebi package manager for install *.deb available via terminal sudo apt-get install gdebi

Then, to install the package, right click your package *.deb -> open with -> GDebi Package Installer -> install package

I like this because You can see detail dependencies that you needed in status.