On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:44:04 -0400 fred smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:07:53AM -0500, ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:58:50 -0400 > > Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx Life is a prison, death is a release
