[CentOS] Openoffice.org Gimp

Thu Jan 17 16:13:27 UTC 2008
Milton Calnek <milton at calnek.com>

Jarmo,

You could try a different repository...
epel or one of the fedora's may work for you.

I personally am not a fan of epel though.

You may be better of to simply get the source rpm's of the packages you 
want and build them yourself on your machine.


Alex White wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:55:41 +0200
> jarmo <oh1mrr at nic.fi> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:
> 
>> Just wondering, what's the roadmap for OO to be upgraded.
>> I have version 2.0.4 and official is already in 2.3.x and suppose
>> in march there's going to be 2.4 version.
>>
>> As well as Gimp, we using 2.2 and there is 2.4.x 
>>
>> Anyone heard upstream roadmap for upgrading?
>>
>> Jarmo
> 
> Generally speaking, I believe there will be upgrades to those apps
> when upstream upgrades those apps. Someone will correct me if I'm
> wrong. If you really really want the updated versions, you can yum
> remove openoffice and install the rpms from OpenOffice.Org with
> minimal hassle if any at all. I did not have problems with the
> packages from OO.O; YMMV of course.
> 
> I am not sure for GIMP; however, sorry. I don't use it very often.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Alex White
> 

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