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Subject: Suggestions to avoid openoffice package name conflicts?

From: Joe Smith <jes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:25:13 -0400

Reply-to: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

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I like to keep both the official Fedora OpenOffice.org and the lateststable RPMs from www.openoffice.org installed. The problem is thatrecent Fedora updates have consistently _removed_ some of oo.org rpms, Iassume because some of the package names are the same.

Is there any way I might convince the Fedora updates to only remove thepackages they actually update, and not every package on the system withthe same name?

I can't think of anything, as I assume yum is simply calling "rpm -U"and the removal of already installed packages is built-in to rpm. ButI'm hoping you guys may have a bright idea.

Alternately, is there any way to install the oo.org rpms with differentnames--a prefix or something? The versions are always different butapparently that's not enough.


<Joe