Unable to update Openoffice.org-core in todays update

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Thu Apr 7 08:28:16 UTC 2005


> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:13 -0400, Robbie Foust wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just joined the list a few days ago.  Somewhat new to Linux, but not
>> new to computers, so please excuse my ignorance. :-)
>>
>> I had a similar problem but I got the error on openoffice.org-core, not
>> on -langpack (I didn't have langpack installed).  It didn't leave -core
>> in an uninstalled state, but rather it still showed 1.9.89-1 installed.
>> I yum removed openoffice (all of it, due to dependencies) and
>> reinstalled it and everything works great now.  Not sure if this is
>> helpful, but figured I'd pass along the info.
>
>
> Yes, uninstall the old openoffice.org-core-1.9.89 pre 3 manually and
> then install the new 1.9.89-3. Between -1 and -3 theres a size
> optimization gone into the spec which dramatically reduces the space
> required for duplicate wizard resource data copied throughout the
> langpacks, unfortunately this replaces a dir with a soft link which
> causes grief on an update of -1 to -3, though not for someone upgrading
> from fc3 to fc4t2. The disruption is a bit unfortunate, but its a huge
> space saving.
>
> C.
>
This was not enough for me, as i was installing the german langpack. so i had to delete
/usr/lib/openoffice.org1.9.89/share/template/en-US manually and then it worked.

Roger




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