Troy, On 1.04.08, Troy Dawson wrote: > Hi, > The real problem stems from RedHat putting in an epoch of 1 in their > openoffice.org rpm's. I'm not sure why they did that, but they did. No > going back once there is an epoch in there. > > The simple thing is to put an excludes into your yum.conf > > So, edit > > /etc/yum.conf > > and put in the line > > exclude=openoffice* > > That *should* fix things.
Sounds good. I'll try that. (I'll let you know if it *doesn't* work.) > I'm not a pup user, I mainly do things via command line, but I *think* that > pup and yumex honor /etc/yum.conf. If not, then we need to find where you > put the excludes line for them. > > Troy > > p.s. OpenOffice 2.4 is out now. While you're in the middle of doing all > this, you might as well update to it. It just came out a couple days ago. > Thanks for the tip! > Steve White wrote: > >John, > > > >On 1.04.08, John Summerfield wrote: > >>Steve White wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I installed openoffice by hand > >>> openoffice.org-base-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >>>now pup keeps bothering me about updating to > >>> openoffice.org-base - 1:2.0.4-5.4.25.x86_64 > >>>If I follow pup's advice, openoffice becomes unusable. > >>That's what you get for breaking the rules;-) > >> > >Ah yes, the secret rules! > > > >>I presume you downloaded a tarball? > >> > >It was a tarball. See below. > > > >>I suggest you "rpm --erase" the old one. If you installed the > >>replacement sensibly, that will be the end of it. > >> > >I removed the old one with yumex before I installed the new one. > >Is that not enough? > > > >$ rpm -qa | grep openoffice > > > >openoffice.org-core04-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-freedesktop-menus-2.3-9238.noarch > >openoffice.org-core03u-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-base-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-core09-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-onlineupdate-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-core06-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-emailmerge-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-core02-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-core07-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-math-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-kde-integration-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-core05-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-calc-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-suse-menus-2.3-9238.noarch > >openoffice.org-core05u-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-impress-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-pyuno-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-core04u-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-core10-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-mandriva-menus-2.3-9238.noarch > >openoffice.org-gnome-integration-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-writer-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-graphicfilter-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-core08-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-headless-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-core03-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-redhat-menus-2.3-9238.noarch > >openoffice.org-core01-2.3.1-9238.i586 > >openoffice.org-draw-2.3.1-9238.i586 > > > >What should I erase here? These seem to be all from the newer > >(non-distro) version. > > > >>At worst, you will need to reinstall your download (but check first for > >>a newer one, OOo on Windows was just nagging me). > >> > >>If my assumptions are bad, best you go into more detail about just what > >>you have done. > >> > >I think I did this: > > > > removed the distribution openoffice with yumex > > ran the installer from the tarball > > OOo_2.3.1_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz > > (It put stuff in /opt) > >then > > pup came up offering to re-install the old distro version > >then > > I wrote to the mailing list > > > >But I have been through this before, that's how I know not to do > >what pup suggests. > > > >Cheers! > > > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Troy Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group > __________________________________________________ > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Steve White +49(331)7499-202 e-Science / AstroGrid-D Zi. 35 Bg. 20 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP) An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz, Peter A. Stolz Stiftung privaten Rechts, Stiftungsverzeichnis Brandenburg: III/7-71-026 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
