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. > <snip> 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070727/3a5d301e/attachment-0004.sig>