OpenOffice.org 3.1 installation was corrupted-installed again, nothing in Applications/Office menu
I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
When I used "yum remove openoffice.org-core" the response was "package openoffice.org-core available but not installed", but then, when I used "yum install openoffice.org-core there was a long list of Transaction Check Errors. I then removed openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-noarch which was in the errors.
Here's the first of those errors: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/soffice from install of openoffice.org-core-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1.i386 conflicts with file from package openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-3.1-9393.noarch
The transaction completed OK, after I removed openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-noarch, but now, there is nothing in Applications/Office menu for OpenOffice.org :-)
Question: How do I get the different entries for OpenOffice.org to appear in that menu again so I can launch the application? (If I need to install the latest version of openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-noarch what command do I use to get the correct version?)
CentOS 5.5 (32 bit): [lanny@dell2400 ~]$ uname -a Linux dell2400.homelan 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:09:10 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linuxlate
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Lanny Marcus wrote:
I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
When I used "yum remove openoffice.org-core" the response was "package openoffice.org-core available but not installed", but then, when I used "yum install openoffice.org-core there was a long list of Transaction Check Errors. I then removed openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-noarch which was in the errors.
Here's the first of those errors: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/soffice from install of openoffice.org-core-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1.i386 conflicts with file from package openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-3.1-9393.noarch
you are mixing two different sources for OO: some of your installed packages come from the OO website, and you are trying to yum install the centos version on top of that. Either remove all traces of the non-centos rpms and then install with yum, or stick to the ooo rpms and don't install the centos ones. Watch out for openoffice.org-ure if you choose the second solution, that particular rpm has the same name in both sources, but the version number is higher in centos so yum might try to update it - and wreck your OO install.
echo 'exclude=openoffice.org-*' >> /etc/yum.conf
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
echo 'exclude=openoffice.org-*' >> /etc/yum.conf
Lars: Thank you! Lanny
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
echo 'exclude=openoffice.org-*'>> /etc/yum.conf
Lars: Thank you! Lanny
Lars' advice is if you want to use the OO.org provided rpms (it tells yum to ignore the centos oo rpms, in particular it prevents yum from installing the openoffice.org-ure rpm and breaking your OO.org installed openoffice, as I mentioned).
In your other email you say you want to get rid of the OO.org version, and install the centos one. In this case you don't want to have that exclude line in yum.conf. It will prevent you from installing the centos version.
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
echo 'exclude=openoffice.org-*'>> /etc/yum.conf
Lars: Thank you! Lanny
Lars' advice is if you want to use the OO.org provided rpms (it tells yum to ignore the centos oo rpms, in particular it prevents yum from installing the openoffice.org-ure rpm and breaking your OO.org installed openoffice, as I mentioned).
In your other email you say you want to get rid of the OO.org version, and install the centos one. In this case you don't want to have that exclude line in yum.conf. It will prevent you from installing the centos version.
I would like to remove any remnants of the OO org version and install the CentOS version with yum. I believe I installed the CentOS version, with yum, last night, without problems.
However, since I also removed that package for menus, there is nothing in the Applications/Office menu for any of the OpenOffice.org applications. How can I restore the ability to launch the applications from the menu? Thank you, again, for your time and help!
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
<snip>
you are mixing two different sources for OO: some of your installed packages come from the OO website, and you are trying to yum install the centos version on top of that.
<snip> Nicolas: Apparently, I have removed most of the original installation of OO. What yum command(s) should I use, to remove any remaining packages from that installation?
After I do that, I will install the CentOS version of OO.
Thank you, for your time and help! Lanny
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
<snip> > you are mixing two different sources for OO: some of your installed > packages come from the OO website, and you are trying to yum install the > centos version on top of that. <snip> Nicolas: Apparently, I have removed most of the original installation of OO. What yum command(s) should I use, to remove any remaining packages from that installation?
<snip> Nicolas: I haven't had enough coffee this morning and my first reply asked about removing via yum. Apparently, the corrupted (partially removed) installation of OO was not installed via yum. Questions: Where should I look for remnants of that installation? Do I need to do that manually or are there yum or rpm commands I can use to remove the remnants? TIA! Lanny
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Lanny Marcuslmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
<snip> > you are mixing two different sources for OO: some of your installed > packages come from the OO website, and you are trying to yum install the > centos version on top of that. <snip> Nicolas: Apparently, I have removed most of the original installation of OO. What yum command(s) should I use, to remove any remaining packages from that installation?
<snip> Nicolas: I haven't had enough coffee this morning and my first reply asked about removing via yum. Apparently, the corrupted (partially removed) installation of OO was not installed via yum. Questions: Where should I look for remnants of that installation? Do I need to do that manually or are there yum or rpm commands I can use to remove the remnants? TIA! Lanny
you should ba able to list all installed rpms from OO.org with this command: rpm -qa | grep -P 'openoffice|ooobasis'
you then want to feed these packages to 'rpm -e' ("erase", ie uninstall).
when you're clean of all openoffice packages, use yum to install the centos version.
On Jul 9, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Lanny Marcuslmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
<snip> > you are mixing two different sources for OO: some of your installed > packages come from the OO website, and you are trying to yum install the > centos version on top of that. <snip> Nicolas: Apparently, I have removed most of the original installation of OO. What yum command(s) should I use, to remove any remaining packages from that installation?
<snip> Nicolas: I haven't had enough coffee this morning and my first reply asked about removing via yum. Apparently, the corrupted (partially removed) installation of OO was not installed via yum. Questions: Where should I look for remnants of that installation? Do I need to do that manually or are there yum or rpm commands I can use to remove the remnants? TIA! Lanny
you should ba able to list all installed rpms from OO.org with this command: rpm -qa | grep -P 'openoffice|ooobasis'
you then want to feed these packages to 'rpm -e' ("erase", ie uninstall).
when you're clean of all openoffice packages, use yum to install the centos version.
You can use yum to remove what was manually installed via rpm.
# yum remove 'openoffice*'
-Ross
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Ross Walker rswwalker@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 9, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Lanny Marcuslmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
<snip>
You can use yum to remove what was manually installed via rpm. # yum remove 'openoffice*'
Ross: Thank you. I see the asterisk and single quote marks. Probably the other problem is that I deleted the openoffice.org redhat menus package Thursday night. Lanny
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Lanny Marcuslmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
<snip>
you should ba able to list all installed rpms from OO.org with this command: rpm -qa | grep -P 'openoffice|ooobasis'
you then want to feed these packages to 'rpm -e' ("erase", ie uninstall).
Nicolas: Three questions:
Question #1: Do I have the correct CentOS version of OpenOffice installed now and are there any other OpenOffice packages I need to install with yum?
Question #2: What yum command can I use, to install everything in the OpenOffice "Group", such as writer, calc, and many other packages?
Question #3: What yum command should I use (the one below obviously is not correct) to install the Applications/Office menus? (If I can do that, I suspect this will work properly again)
I had removed (with yum) openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-noarch 0:3.1-9393 because I got a long list of Transaction Errors Thursday night, when trying to install OpenOffice with yum and that's probably why there's nothing in Applications/Office for the OpenOffice.org Applications now.
Thank you, again, for your time and help. Much appreciated! Lanny
[root@dell2400 ~]# yum install openoffice.org-core <snip> Setting up Install Process Package 1:openoffice.org-core-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1.i386 already installed and latest version Nothing to do
[root@dell2400 ~]# yum install openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus <snip> No package openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus available. Nothing to do
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