On 11/02/2010 01:16 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have OOo 3.1.1 installed (from OOo, not from repositories) on Fedora
11 x86_64. I have downloaded and untarred the x86_64 RPM for 3.2.1 from
OOo. I have also made a full system backup and also made a copy
of my .openoffice.org config folder. Before I install I have some dumb
questions:
1) Do I have to uninstall 3.1.1 first, or will the new install
overwrite the old?
If I am feeling very paranoid, then I remove any add-ons that I
installed before I proceed.
I have no idea, but, when I install on my Fedora box, I always uninstall
the previous version first. I find the process a bit involved, however.
I use rpm to generate a list of what is already installed:
First, I create a file that contains the OOo specific files. Note that
the first line uses a single > to redirect the output to a new file and
the second line uses >> to append to the existing file.
rpm -qa | grep openoffice > o.txt
rpm -qa | grep ooobas >> o.txt
Look in o.txt to see the files that are present. What is missing from
this list? When I install OOo, it usually installs a JRE. The desktop
integration files should be included (if any). You can decide if you
care about the JRE or if you want to leave it.
Next, I remove all of the files from the file.
rpm -e `cat o.txt`
The first portion, "rpm -e" tells rpm to remove a RPM list. using the
back-tick character `, says that the list should come from the command
cat o.txt, which prints the contents to the screen.
Now, is this what you should do? I suppose that you can use yum to
remove OOo from your computer, never used it to do so.
You installed a new version, so, there is another potential problem. yum
will now try to update what your new version that did not come from a
repository. If you edit etc/yum.conf and add the line
"exclude=openoffice*", then yum will not try to do this.
2) If I need to uninstall, I could use a hand with the yum syntax, as
I'm not very familiar with yum from the command line. There are a lot
of packages and I need to be sure I get them all. I found numerous
instructions on the net (all different), but I can tell that the syntax
is wrong.
3) I have a ton of personal settings and extensions in
~/.openoffice.org. Are there any issues with 3.2.1
I have not noticed any problems yet with 3.2.1, and I use it a lot on
Fedora.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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