On Jul 9, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: > 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. You can use yum to remove what was manually installed via rpm. # yum remove 'openoffice*' -Ross