Was just wondering if anyone knows of any third-party RPMs for Open Office 2.0 for CentOS 4? Haven't come up with anything via yum or rpm.pbone.net yet, and would prefer not to go the openoffice.org binary installer route if possible.
Cheers, Gavin
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Gavin Carr wrote:
Was just wondering if anyone knows of any third-party RPMs for Open Office 2.0 for CentOS 4? Haven't come up with anything via yum or rpm.pbone.net yet, and would prefer not to go the openoffice.org binary installer route if possible.
Why not use rpms supplied by openoffice.org? The install was flawless and they work fine.
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:53:58PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote:
Gavin Carr wrote:
Was just wondering if anyone knows of any third-party RPMs for Open Office 2.0 for CentOS 4? Haven't come up with anything via yum or rpm.pbone.net yet, and would prefer not to go the openoffice.org binary installer route if possible.
Why not use rpms supplied by openoffice.org? The install was flawless and they work fine.
Ah thanks Ralph. I'm downloading the tarball now and had assumed it was some kind of binary installer, not RPMs. Sorry for the noise.
Cheers, Gavin
Gavin Carr wrote:
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:53:58PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote:
Gavin Carr wrote:
Was just wondering if anyone knows of any third-party RPMs for Open Office 2.0 for CentOS 4? Haven't come up with anything via yum or rpm.pbone.net yet, and would prefer not to go the openoffice.org binary installer route if possible.
Why not use rpms supplied by openoffice.org? The install was flawless and they work fine.
Ah thanks Ralph. I'm downloading the tarball now and had assumed it was some kind of binary installer, not RPMs. Sorry for the noise.
Cheers, Gavin
To upgrade Openoffice.org from 1.1.x to 2.x, I removed openoffice.org with
yum remove openoffice
and then dowloaded and installed the latest Openoffice.org stuff from the OO site itself. The file you download there is a compressed file of rpms. So once I extracted them in a folder (you'll notice a redhat desktop integration rpm in a subfolder there, which you can copy to the folder where you dumped all the rpms), I just did
rpm -ivh openoffice*.rpm
in that folder.
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote:
To upgrade Openoffice.org from 1.1.x to 2.x, I removed openoffice.org with
yum remove openofficeand then dowloaded and installed the latest Openoffice.org stuff from the OO site itself. The file you download there is a compressed file of rpms. So once I extracted them in a folder (you'll notice a redhat desktop integration rpm in a subfolder there, which you can copy to the folder where you dumped all the rpms), I just did
rpm -ivh openoffice*.rpmin that folder.
All goes well, except that openoffice.org-pyuno seems to break yum:
aud000:/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program# yum update There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cElementTree.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF8
Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly.
It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 1 2006, 21:07:49) [GCC 3.4.1]
If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
Did you not see this on CentOS4 Ralph? Removing openoffice.org-pyuno fixes the problem, but it means you lose mail merge support too.
Cheers, Gavin
Done this on 2 computers with CentOS4.3 without any problems... So it's probably a CentOS3 only problem...
Cheers, MaZe.
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 11:44 +0200, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
Done this on 2 computers with CentOS4.3 without any problems... So it's probably a CentOS3 only problem...
Cheers, MaZe.
I have OOo on a 3.7 machine and no issues either ... but it might be an older version of OOo (I got OOo 2.0 just after release and haven't upgraded the OOo on that box since).
To upgrade Openoffice.org from 1.1.x to 2.x, I removed openoffice.org with
yum remove openoffice
Depending on how much space you're willing to sacrifice (openoffice is damn HUGE) you don't need to uninstall the provided one first. The OOo 2.x packages can actually import all the settings from the previous version, so it's even more seamless. Then once the settings have been imported you can remove the older packages to free up a couple hundred megs or so :-P
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 12:31 +1000, Gavin Carr wrote:
Was just wondering if anyone knows of any third-party RPMs for Open Office 2.0 for CentOS 4? Haven't come up with anything via yum or rpm.pbone.net yet, and would prefer not to go the openoffice.org binary installer route if possible.
Cheers, Gavin
OpenOffice.org distributes the download in RPMS. The tarball extracts to a directory full of RPMS ...
Install the RH ones and it works OK.
There is one RPM in a seperate directory for the menu items. It says RH too, but you need to look for it.
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