On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 23:51 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
I was using the beta version of Open Office on Windows for... I don't know how long, but many months now. I quite like it and would like to replace the current stable 1.1 build of OpenOffice that came with CentOS with the beta.
So i downloaded the RPMs from the OpenOffice site and dutifully followed their installation instructions, and it went well. I think. I mean, there were no errors and it did a whole bunch of unpacking and stuff. But any office document I try to open still opens with the previous OpenOffice, I can't find any icons for the OpenOffice Beta in any of my menus, and any documents I had created with OpenOffice Beta in Windows aren't recognized by CentOS.
In short, I think it's installed, but I don't know how to start it.
How do I do that, and how do I remove the "old" Open Office?
The CentOS packages are "openoffice.org..." and the Beta I have on one machine is openofficeorg-base-1.9.113-1, etc. The CentOS version installs on the standard paths like /usr/bin /usr/lib, whereas the Beta is under /opt and will not be on your standard paths. The two can coexist, but that is probably not a good idea - too much room for error/confusion; although works-for-me on the test machine.
[root@hazard2 root]# yum remove openoffice.org ... snip ... Dependencies Resolved Transaction Listing: Remove: openoffice.org.i386 0:1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4
Performing the following to resolve dependencies: Remove: openoffice.org-i18n.i386 0:1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4 Remove: openoffice.org-kde.i386 0:1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4 Remove: openoffice.org-libs.i386 0:1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4 Total download size: 0 Is this ok [y/N]: N Exiting on user Command Complete!
Answering yes above would presumably have cleanly removed the standard packages.
There are a whole slew of packages in the Beta. On my system they are on the KDE menus and the binaries can be found in /opt/openoffice.org1.9.113/program/ - this needs to be on your path.
My $0.02 - wait until somebody comes out with a set of CentOS4 upgrade packages.
Phil