Installing OOO is necessary for me because Abiword isnt as functional and I
interact with MS docs a lot. I am just trying to make it useful, it is up to me
whether I use a bloadted softwre or not, this is besides the point of my thread
however, I want to install software and at the moment I can't install anything
bloated or not.

Also I thought if the same kernel is being run then I still should be able to
install anything as long as the packages are available, is this true or not?

I was aware of Mepis lovers.org alhough I try not to have ten thousand
memberships...

Debian is what Ubuntu derived from and Ubuntu can add Debian repositories afaik
so thus I asked here.