OOo 2.3

[ethericalzen at gmail.com]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:44:04 -0400
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> took out a #2 pencil and
scribbled:

> 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.
> 

Really? Well that's my mistake. I couldn't get them to coexist
together. Once I installed OpenOffice 2.3 (I had not installed
stock Openoffice during initial install), yum wanted to update my
OpenOffice 2.3 down to the repo. I had to exclude OpenOffice in my
yum config to keep it from warning about the update every time I
did a yum update. 

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