On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Filipe
Brandenburger<filbranden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:08, Lanny Marcus<lmmailinglists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Filipe: Thank you for the very quick and very detailed reply. Much
>> appreciated!
>
> No problem! Happy to help.
>
>> Follow on questions: (a) Should I uninstall the
>> OpenOffice.org 2.3 group I installed with the distro?
>
> Yes. I believe you should do it to avoid conflicts with the .desktop
> files (the shortcuts that will create the icons in your desktop). I
> remember seeing that it was recommended to do it, but I don't remember
> where I read that and if the reason for it was said or not...
>
>> (If so, can you
>> give me the yum command to uninstall the entire OpenOffice.org group?)
>
> I did it with:
>
> # rpm -e $(rpm -qa openoffice\*)
>
> I remember doing it this way in CentOS 4, in CentOS 5 I don't remember
> the exact command but it was something on these lines.
>
>> (b) If I should leave OO 2.3 as is, should I install OpenOffice 3.1
>> into /usr/local? Lanny
>
> The RPMs do not really give you a choice of where to install (AFAIK).
> It will install them under /opt/openoffice.org and
> /opt/openoffice.org3. It will not put anything on PATH, so if you want
> to be able to start oowriter or oocalc from command-line you will need
> to add it to the PATH yourself or create symbolic links (I also
> believe the names of the commands are swriter, scalc, etc. instead of
> oo*, I created symbolic links with the other name so that it worked
> for who was using those names already.)
>
>> Bill: If I can't get OO 3.1 to work as Filipe suggested, I will check
>> out NeoOffice for Linux. Lanny
>
> I believe NeoOffice is for Mac only. I was using (an older version of)
> it on my MacBook, but after the success with OpenOffice 3.1 on Linux I
> actually uninstalled NeoOffice and installed OpenOffice 3.1 on my Mac,
> it works great as well.
Thank you for the additional information! I will begin downloading OO 3.1!
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