How to update to OpenOffice 2.0. ? - thanks everyone

[Paul Erickson]

William Hooper wrote:
> Scott R. Godin wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:13:14 -0400 (EDT), William Hooper wrote:
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Paul Erickson wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>       
>>>> # yum update openoffice.org
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Could not find update match for openoffice.org
>>>> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Did you rerun your rpm query to see if any of openoffice.org is
>>> installed?
>>>
>>> rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org
>>>
>>> If it's not installed, it can't be updated.  To install it you would
>>> needs something like:
>>>
>>> yum install openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-writer
>>> openoffice.org-draw
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if installing openoffice.org-core will pull everything in
>>> or not.
>>>       
>> Did you know, you can do things like this?
>>
>>
>> yum install openoffice\*
>>     
>
> This would install all of the OOo language packs.  In most situations I
> would assume that would be undesirable.
>
>   
You are right, it did, but I went back and removed them with pup. It 
took some time, but at
least I have it working now. Thanks everyone for the time and assistance.

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