[CentOS] CentOS 4 and OpenOffice
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Fri Apr 29 21:35:28 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:06 -0500, Robert wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>
> > Has anyone here replaced the openoffice.org packages with those that
> > were distributed with FC3? It's either that for me or simply
> > scrapping CentOS in favor of FC3 (or even FC1). I'm very surprised
> > that I can find no reports regarding the impossibility of formatting
> > multi-page spreadsheets to print properly.
>
> Answering my own question....
> Removing (rpm -e)
> openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-18.6.EL4
> openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-18.6.EL4
> openoffice.org-1.1.2-18.6.EL4
> openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-18.6.EL4
> and installing
> openoffice.org-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm
> openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm
> openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm
> openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm
> from the FC3 CDs (specifically CD 1,2 and 4) restored my ability to
> print spreadsheets properly. This was both on a test box, printing
> across the network and on the machine I'm using at this moment. The fact
> that both machines exhibited the same behavior using the .EL4 version
> would seem to rule out some goofy install problem. The fact that relief
> was instant following the installation of the older files would seem to
> rule out a "senior moment" on my part -- which was an open question in
> my mind for some time.
> So, as far as usability, this is a case of "all's well that ends". Yet,
> it would be interesting to know if the OpenOffice.org developers let
> such a glaring bug escape, if the bug was a RedHat enhancement, if
> perhaps there was some unheralded error in the rebuild process or maybe
> a download error here.
Robert,
The latest version of OOo for CentOS-4 (openoffice.org-1.1.2-22.6.EL4)
spreadsheet prints fine for me ... not sure exactly what the error you
had was.
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