Someone was just having some difficulty replacing the Red Hat version of OpenOffice with the Sun version.
As I just (within the past few minutes) finished installing OO 2.3 on a new Centos 5 server that I'm setting up over this weekend, and I installed it on several Fedora machines the other day, here are complete step-by-step instructions for installing OO 2.3 on Redhat/Fedora/Centos machines: 1. Get Sun Java (a) go to http://java.sun.com (b) click on "Java SE" under the "Popular Downloads" heading. (c) click on the download button beside "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 2" (d) Click on "Accept license agreement" (e) Click on "Linux self-extracting file (build 05)". Note that you DO NOT WANT the rpm file that is there, you want the file named "jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin" 2. Install Sun Java (a) chmod 774 jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin (b) Become root user (c) mkdir /opt/java (d) cd /opt/java (e) ./jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin (You must put the path to where-ever you downloaded jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin in front of the filename instead of the ./ that I put here.) (f) exit root user 3. Download the OpenOffice WITHOUT JAVA from http://www.openoffice.org. The filename that you want is OOo_2.3.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz 4. tar xvzf OOo_2.3.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz 5. Become root user again 6. yum remove openoffice.org-core 7. cd OOG680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9221/RPMS 8. rpm -i *.rpm 9. cd desktop-integration 10. rpm -i openoffice.org-redhat-menus-2.3-9215.noarch.rpm 11. vi /etc/yum.conf 12. Add "exclude=openoffice*" to the end of yum.conf. Save the file. All done. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
