yum: How to downgrade openoffice 2.3 to 2.2.1?

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Nov 7 13:06:24 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> With yum I recently upgraded to openoffice 2.3 from
>> version 2.2.1. This new version is a disaster (see below).
>>
>> Can I downgrade back to 2.2.1 with yum?
>
> You can use yum-allowdowngrade plugin available in the repository or 
> manually download the old version (if it is not already in the yum 
> cache) and install it using rpm --oldpackage argument.
>
> Rahul
>
>
Another choice seems to be to google the Open Office web page and d/l 
Open Office 2.3 and see if the author's version works better than the 
fedora version. I may do the same thing since there seems to be smoke 
about OO on this list.



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