On Mon, February 27, 2012 12:10, nux at li.nux.ro wrote: > Ljubomir Ljubojevic writes: > >> Those packages do not need to stay in testing repo. All >> that is >> necessary is for several people use packages from >> testing repo and >> report that they are working without issues to the >> Centos-devel mailing >> list in this thread: >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-September/008159.html >> , >> and packages will be moved to Extras repo. > > Hi, > > Several people have tested this successfully. You can even > get slightly > newer packages from here: > http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice/el6/x86_64/ that > Karanbir hasn't > yet got around to putting in testing (there's a *-release > rpm there, too). > I would advise against using libeoffice.org supplied RPMs > at this stage as > RHEL are also getting ready to release LO 3.4.5 in EL6 > that will (hopefully) > gracefully upgrade my packages. > For what it is worth, I am running LibreOffice 3.5.0 installed from rpms provided by the document foundation and having no troubles with write or calc. I do not really use the other parts so on those I cannot comment. In fact, the experience is far better than I had with OpenOffice-3.3, which was so bad I went back to the 3.2 version provided with CentOS. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3