OOo 2.3

[fred smith]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:07:53AM -0500, ethericalzen at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:58:50 -0400
> Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:
> 
> > Does anyone have any idea when OpenOffice 2.3 will be built for
> > Fedora?
> > 
> > Failing that: if I wanted to build it myself, must I first
> > uninstall the RPM's for OOo 2.0.4?
> > 
> > This might be slightly off-topic, but OOo 2.3 has a lot to
> > recommend it--including, for the first time in any word processor
> > I have seen, an option to export Writer content to MediaWiki
> > format. I've been toying with the idea of promoting the keeping
> > of medical-practice records, and a small patient-oriented medical
> > knowledge base, on a Wiki. Having an off-line (meaning
> > off-the-project) Wiki text editor would be a real boon.
> > 
> > Temlakos
> > 
> 
> You should be able to download the tarball from OpenOffice.org (it's
> a tarball of RPMS) and install it that way. You'll have to
> uninstall OpenOffice first though via yum or rpm -e.

No, you don't have to uninstall OOo first, the RPMs from oo.o
install in separate places and insert their own menu entries, so
the distribution's version and the OOo version coexist happily.

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