On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:51, Jack Hokus <jack.hokus at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I use CentOS on desktop. I want to have a new versions of these > programs: OpenOffice, Emacs and K3B. For OpenOffice you can download rpm of latest release at openoffice.org and install them (via script, not yum). I used OOo 3.2.0 for some CentOS desktop here without any problem. HTH