[CentOS] OT: Viewer for .docx M$ WORD files?

Filipe Brandenburger filbranden at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 03:21:35 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 22:44, Lanny Marcus<lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please give me the rpm or yum command that will uninstall OO 2.3, and
> leave OO 3.1 in place.

Ah, Lenny... Why make things hard on yourself? ;-P

You may try:

# rpm -e $(rpm -qa openoffice.org-\*-2.3.0-\*)

If that does not work, it might be easier to just uninstall everything
and start over again:

# rpm -e $(rpm -qa openoffice\*)
(then reinstall OpenOffice 3.1)
(then install the RPM for GNOME integration)

> I will hunt around in /opt and try to find the
> Desktop icon, so I can launch OO 3.1, but if possible, I would like to
> have it in the GNOME menu.

Those files are not under /opt. I think you missed this RPM:
RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-*.rpm

This will install files under /usr including icons, shortcuts, mime
configurations, etc., to integrate the new OpenOffice to your GNOME.

> I think in your 2nd message, you gave me
> the command to do that, but I need to uninstall OO 2.3 first.
> RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-*.rpm

Yes, there you go.

> Usually, I don't need or want to be on the "bleeding edge", and I wait
> for new packages to come with the distro updates, but I'm receiving a
> lot of .docx files these days. Thanks a million!  Lanny

Same here, I usually avoid replacing the components shipped with
CentOS, but in this case it seemed safe enough as I don't really use
(or know) anything that depends on OpenOffice. Also, when my wife
asked me what to do with those files my usual answer was "complain to
the sender", now it is "complain to the sender, but go ahead and open
it".

Cheers!
Filipe



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