migrating from LibreOffice to Apache's OpenOffice.org suite

NOTE:  these steps are for any debian based Linux distro: Ubuntu, Mint or Debian, but minor tweaks and it'll work for all distros

BEFORE:     --> ls -al /usr/bin/soffice
            # lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Nov 27 02:13 /usr/bin/soffice -> ../lib/libreoffice/program/soffice

AFTER:     --> ls -al /usr/bin/soffice
           # lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Oct 23 04:31 /usr/bin/soffice -> /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice


    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get -y remove --purge libreoffice* libexttextcat-data* && sudo apt-get -y autoremove
    cp ~/bin/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.6_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz /tmp
        # NOTE:  instructions called out an older version; found the current version; it was simple to download and copy to /tmp
        # file downloaded and copied to /tmp:    Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.6_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
    using wget:    
        # cd /tmp && wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/openofficeorg.mirror/ \
                4.1.6/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.6_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
    cd /tmp
    tar -xvf Apache_OpenOffice*.tar.gz     # wildcards save typing...
    sudo dpkg -i en-US/DEBS/*.deb          
        # using the debian packaging tool, if using SuSE, use zypper, Rh/Centos, yum, etc.  Process is the same.
    sudo dpkg -i en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/*.deb   #  this put the icons in the menu and made it all happy.