Re: openoffice 3.2 rpm for fedora; yum search returns nothing for openoffice

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Hi Michael;


On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 04:36, M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>
>> Hi;
>>
>> openoffice 3.2 rpm for fedora; yum search returns nothing for openoffice
>>
>> cat /etc/redhat-release
>> Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
>>
>> "rpm -qa | grep -o open | grep -i office" returns nothing
>>
>> I downloaded the tar.gz file from openoffice.org, but would prefer to
>> install an rpm
>>
>> Tried to use alien to convert but apparently alien broken
>
> It is unlikely that oo.o 3.2 will be packaged for Fedora 12 since it may
> be seen as too major a jump to make within a release. The are however 3.2
> RPMs for the Fedora 13 development version which should appear in an alpha
> version within the next couple of weeks, so you could try packages from
> that, or just upgrade your whole OS to it. Note that mixing RPMs from
> different Fedora versions can cause problems so I would recommend a fair
> amount of expertise in resolving package conflicts (and in the worst case
> scenario recovering a non-functional or partially functional system
> and/or good backups).

  How about the most current version of OpenOffice that is properly
supported by Fedora 12? :-)

Thanks,
Ken
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