Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Lanny Marcus<lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg >> <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: >>> Lanny Marcus wrote: >>>> I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1. >> <snip> >>> you are mixing two different sources for OO: some of your installed >>> packages come from the OO website, and you are trying to yum install the >>> centos version on top of that. >> <snip> >> Nicolas: Apparently, I have removed most of the original installation >> of OO. What yum command(s) should I use, to remove any remaining >> packages from that installation? > <snip> > Nicolas: I haven't had enough coffee this morning and my first reply > asked about removing via yum. Apparently, the corrupted (partially > removed) installation of OO was not installed via yum. Questions: > Where should I look for remnants of that installation? Do I need to do > that manually or are there yum or rpm commands I can use to remove the > remnants? TIA! Lanny you should ba able to list all installed rpms from OO.org with this command: rpm -qa | grep -P 'openoffice|ooobasis' you then want to feed these packages to 'rpm -e' ("erase", ie uninstall). when you're clean of all openoffice packages, use yum to install the centos version.