On 02/28/2012 09:42 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > 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. > I have been having OpenOffice 3.2 for EL 5.x in my repo since it's release, by unpacking it in my repo folder, but I think desktop integration needed some work. It is much easier to install on several systems from repository. And I created virtual packages to install localized environment that pulls all packages I wanted. And update is much simpler from repository, that is why I am trying to force people to use it that way so we can move it to regular repository. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant