[CentOS] OT: Viewer for .docx M$ WORD files?

Wed Jun 10 02:44:14 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On 6/9/09, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 16:17, Lanny Marcus<lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a Viewer for .docx   M$ WORD files? If so, where can I get
>> it? This file type cannot be opened with OpenOffice.org 2.3.    TIA!
>
> I'm successfully using the RPM distribution of OpenOffice 3.1
> available from the openoffice.org website. I'm even using it on CentOS
> 4 machines and it's working OK!

46:openoffice.org3-en-US  ########################################### [ 94%]
  47:openoffice.org3-impress########################################### [ 96%]
  48:openoffice.org3-math   ########################################### [ 98%]
  49:openoffice.org3-writer ########################################### [100%]
[root at dell2400 OOO310_m11_native_packed-2_en-US.9399]#

Filipe: I did not uninstall OO 2.3 before I installed 3.1. Was hoping
the 3.1 installation would see that 2.3 was installed and uninstall
it, but no joy on that.  My error....   So, on GNOME, if I go to
Applications>Office>Word Processor, naturally it brings up OO 2.3.
Please give me the rpm or yum command that will uninstall OO 2.3, and
leave OO 3.1 in place. I will hunt around in /opt and try to find the
Desktop icon, so I can launch OO 3.1, but if possible, I would like to
have it in the GNOME menu. I think in your 2nd message, you gave me
the command to do that, but I need to uninstall OO 2.3 first.
RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-*.rpm

Usually, I don't need or want to be on the "bleeding edge", and I wait
for new packages to come with the distro updates, but I'm receiving a
lot of .docx files these days. Thanks a million!  Lanny