The asterisk did the trick. Is there a generality I should infer from this, or are there hidden risks? Thanks, Mike. -- Michael D. Berger m.d.berger@xxxxxxxx [...] > Try yum update openoffice* > > Or if your yum is set to run nightly automatically it may already be > updated and not need any new updates. > > Cheers. > [...] > > Seeing the recent announcement for the openoffice update, I typed: > > yum update openoffice > > Not much happened, and it said there was nothing to update. > Did I do the wrong thing? > Thanks for your help. > Mike. [...]