David McGuffey wrote: > In order to get an OpenOffice configuration that is closer in > compatibility with MS Office 2007, I removed the standard OO in 5.4 via > yum and installed the latest (3.2.0) from OpenOffice.org. Ran that > config for many months without a problem. > > However, when I allowed the upgrade to 5.5, OO broke. I finally had to > remove all traces of OO 3.2.0, and start over. That worked...until yum > tells me that there are updates to apply, which includes an OO update. > > Not thinking, I allowed the updates and the OO update broke OO 3.2.0 > again. The update is: > openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.5.el5.x86_64 updates > openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.x86_64 > > I had the same problem. Add the following line to /etc/yum.conf: exclude=openoffice.org-ure* then yum will leave you alone > I had to repeat the removal and reinstallation of OO to recover. Now I > watch the updates more closely and don't allow the OO update to come in. > > Not complaining...just a warning to the community of the challenge one > often encounters by running software that is not part of the standard > distribution. > > Dave M > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger.k.wells at saic.com