Thanks Johnny, I'll look into it. (Trying to remove the CentOS version, and install the OO.o rpms.)

I'll also try Ross' suggestion.

(the 5.2 upgrade is still happily chugging along with the downloads at 09h50 (-4), at #145 of 222 downloads.)

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:43 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

Donald Buchan wrote:

...

I did a yum update last night at about 23h15 EDT (-4). No upgrade.

I just did a yum update this morning at about 08h45 (-4). for my system there's about 348 megs of updates.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to remove OO.o 2.0.whatever which is being upgraded to 2.3.whatever. I'm using 2.4.1 on my 4.6 boxes (have always been using the latest OO.o on them since installation a couple of years ago.)

Any ideas on how to completely remove the OO.o references for Yum, after having tried to do rpm -Uvh *.rpm, after trying again and doing a yum cleanup, etc. etc.?

If you where using the centos versions this will happen for you with a normal upgrade with no issues.

If you are using the OpenOffice.org versions and if you want to shift back to the centos version, then just:

rpm -e openoffice-*

then

(all one line)

yum install openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-graphicfilter openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-xsltfilter openoffice.org-base

Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Donald Buchan wrote:

Just reread your message.

I was still having problems with the 2.0 centos version coming back even though I'd removed it.

I tried Ross' suggesting, it removed things successfully (for both 2.0.whatever and 2.4.1.) But the new 2.4.1 won't install because "package jre-1.6.0_04-fcs is already installed". Grrr.

I'm tempted to keep the 2.3 version that comes with the 5.2 upgrade, I didn't notice any difference between 2.3 and 2.4, and I won't have to constantly upgrade every time there's a "latest & greatest" OO.o ... (Seems that's why I like CentOS to begin with!)

You can remove jre-1.6 then install OOo, or download OOo that doesn't include the JRE.

Make sure to uncheck:

Include the Java JRE with this download (This option is not available for Linux DEB and Mac OSX)

On the download page.

-Ross

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