Strange update behavior with OpenOffice.org

[Erik Hemdal]

I had a strange update tonight and wanted to pass along my experience.

I noticed that yum reported updates to openoffice.org version 
1.1.3.mumble.  No worries, said I, yum does the right thing and I ran 
the update.

After the update, when I tried to run OpenOffice, the installer 
appeared, with a dialog asking me to update my installation of v1.1.2 
because the "network" installation had been updated.  When I followed 
the prompts to update, the update failed, asking me to close OpenOffice 
1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, and 1.1.2. 

After this, OO would not run, instead Bug Buddy appears whenever I try 
to use an OO application.

My fix was to uninstall (rpm -e) the existing versions of 
openoffice.org, openoffice.org-libs, and openoffice.org-i18n.  Then a simple

yum install openoffice.org

appears to have recovered my OO installation, kindly leaving the big 
i18n package out. 

I thought that was really strange.  If anyone has seen this situation, 
this might help.  If you have other information about it, I'd appreciate 
a word.

Erik Hemdal