On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Filipe Brandenburgerfilbranden@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:08, Lanny Marcuslmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Filipe: Thank you for the very quick and very detailed reply. Much appreciated!
No problem! Happy to help.
Follow on questions: (a) Should I uninstall the OpenOffice.org 2.3 group I installed with the distro?
Yes. I believe you should do it to avoid conflicts with the .desktop files (the shortcuts that will create the icons in your desktop). I remember seeing that it was recommended to do it, but I don't remember where I read that and if the reason for it was said or not...
(If so, can you give me the yum command to uninstall the entire OpenOffice.org group?)
I did it with:
# rpm -e $(rpm -qa openoffice*)
I remember doing it this way in CentOS 4, in CentOS 5 I don't remember the exact command but it was something on these lines.
(b) If I should leave OO 2.3 as is, should I install OpenOffice 3.1 into /usr/local? Lanny
The RPMs do not really give you a choice of where to install (AFAIK). It will install them under /opt/openoffice.org and /opt/openoffice.org3. It will not put anything on PATH, so if you want to be able to start oowriter or oocalc from command-line you will need to add it to the PATH yourself or create symbolic links (I also believe the names of the commands are swriter, scalc, etc. instead of oo*, I created symbolic links with the other name so that it worked for who was using those names already.)
Bill: If I can't get OO 3.1 to work as Filipe suggested, I will check out NeoOffice for Linux. Lanny
I believe NeoOffice is for Mac only. I was using (an older version of) it on my MacBook, but after the success with OpenOffice 3.1 on Linux I actually uninstalled NeoOffice and installed OpenOffice 3.1 on my Mac, it works great as well.
Thank you for the additional information! I will begin downloading OO 3.1!