On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Filipe Brandenburger<filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 22:44, Lanny Marcus<lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: >> Please give me the rpm or yum command that will uninstall OO 2.3, and >> leave OO 3.1 in place. <snip> > # rpm -e $(rpm -qa openoffice.org-\*-2.3.0-\*) > If that does not work, it might be easier to just uninstall everything > and start over again: Filipe: No joy with that command: [root at dell2400 ~]# rpm -e $(rpm -qa openoffice.org-\*-2.3.0-\*) rpm: no packages given for erase [root at dell2400 ~]# But, as I was writing a reply to you, I got an idea, which was to use your syntax, with "yum remove" and it did remove 10 packages. :-) <snip> > (then install the RPM for GNOME integration) OK. I have OpenOffice.org Writer 3.1 open. :-) There is a big problem with the way the .docx file was displayed. It is not pretty. I can see most or all of the words, but they are not where they should be. A formatting problem that I can fix? Thank you, again, for sharing your time and expertise. Much appreciated! Lanny