Installing OpenOffice

There may be times when you need to open up a spreadsheet to review IP ranges, or to quickly review your ROE. Sometimes it is even nice to have your data collection tool export your data directly into a word processor from within BackTrack. There are many open source alternatives to Microsoft Word these days and OpenOffice is at the top of the list. It has been adopted by many businesses and can output various file formats. To install OpenOffice from within BackTrack simply open a terminal session and type:

# apt-get update # apt-get install openoffice.org 

Accept the download by pressing Y and after a few moments, you will have successfully added a very powerful Office Suite to your BackTrack toolset.