On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Filipe Brandenburger<filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:08, Lanny Marcus<lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: >> Filipe: Thank you for the very quick and very detailed reply. Much >> appreciated! > > No problem! Happy to help. > >> Follow on questions: (a) Should I uninstall the >> OpenOffice.org 2.3 group I installed with the distro? > > Yes. I believe you should do it to avoid conflicts with the .desktop > files (the shortcuts that will create the icons in your desktop). I > remember seeing that it was recommended to do it, but I don't remember > where I read that and if the reason for it was said or not... > >> (If so, can you >> give me the yum command to uninstall the entire OpenOffice.org group?) > > I did it with: > > # rpm -e $(rpm -qa openoffice\*) > > I remember doing it this way in CentOS 4, in CentOS 5 I don't remember > the exact command but it was something on these lines. > >> (b) If I should leave OO 2.3 as is, should I install OpenOffice 3.1 >> into /usr/local? Lanny > > The RPMs do not really give you a choice of where to install (AFAIK). > It will install them under /opt/openoffice.org and > /opt/openoffice.org3. It will not put anything on PATH, so if you want > to be able to start oowriter or oocalc from command-line you will need > to add it to the PATH yourself or create symbolic links (I also > believe the names of the commands are swriter, scalc, etc. instead of > oo*, I created symbolic links with the other name so that it worked > for who was using those names already.) > >> Bill: If I can't get OO 3.1 to work as Filipe suggested, I will check >> out NeoOffice for Linux. Lanny > > I believe NeoOffice is for Mac only. I was using (an older version of) > it on my MacBook, but after the success with OpenOffice 3.1 on Linux I > actually uninstalled NeoOffice and installed OpenOffice 3.1 on my Mac, > it works great as well. Thank you for the additional information! I will begin downloading OO 3.1!