When I installed Fedora 11 x86_64 it came with OpenOffice 3.something. After using it for a bit I discovered lots of missing features. It turns out that Fedora decided to remove some things because they felt they were not clean enough for Fedora. So I used Yumex to uninstall the Fedora version of OOo, then installed 3.1.1 which I downloaded from openoffice.org.
Now I wish to upgrade to OOo 3.2.1, which I just downloaded from openoffice.org. I am amazed at the lack of documentation. That is, there is an installation readme on the OOo website, but it is silent about *upgrading*. It just addresses installation as though the user does not have OOo installed yet. Google turned up a couple places that seemed to suggest that one needs to remove OOo and then reinstall the new version. I suppose that would be safer than just trying to overwrite old packages with new packages. But that brings me to the present dilemma: How to remove OOo 3.1.1. After untarring the 3.1.1 version (which I no longer have on my hard disk) it consisted of around 30 RPMs. As I recall I just navigated to the folder and did "rpm install *.rpm" and it all worked. But I don't even know the names of the old RPMs, so I'm not sure how to uninstall them while being sure that I get them all. Yumex lists lots of things for OOo, but I think they are the packages from the Fedora repos. I tried to read the man pages for yum and rpm, but they were pretty hard to follow. So how does one remove a mega package like OOo? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
