Johnny Hughes wrote:
beast wrote:
Since rpm from openoffice.org was not nicely integrate with Centos, what is the best way to make OO uptodate
I have not tried to integrate the newest OOo2 into CentOS-5 (or even CentOS-4.5) since both have OOo-2.0.4 integrated. Are there REALLY that many new features that you MUST upgrade from a Stable 2.0.4 to a new 2.2.x?
I can try to do it on CentOS-5 (Use the OOo RPMS from the openoffice.org site) and post how it went here.
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WRT OOo2 from the openoffice.org site .. it seems to play perfectly well in my setup.
I removed all openoffice and tomcat RPMS (also any java that I had installed as it also contains JRE) from CentOS-5 and downloaded the latest Linux version from the OpenOffice.org website.
I then did this to install it:
1. Untarred the tar file ... it creates a directory full of RPMS.
2. Edit my yum.conf and set gpgcheck=0 ... since OOo does not (for some unknown reason) sign their RPMS.
3. Change directories to the the RPMS dir and issue this command to install the RPMS:
yum localinstall *.rpm desktop-integration/openoffice.org-redhat*.rpm
4. Log out and log back in to restart my X server
5. Create any shortcuts I want on my toolbar from the "Applications -> Office" menu.
So far, it seems to work great.
6. Edited the my /etc/yum.conf to set gpgcheck=1 ... and exclude=openoffice.org* jre-* (so as to not accidentally upgrade these accidentally in the future).
So far ... it all works great with build 9161 of version 2.1.1
Thanks, Johnny Hughes