Re: OOo 2.3

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:04:34PM -0500, ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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. 

OK, I need to divulge that I haven't tried it on F7, but it has 
worked that way for me on other RH and RH-derived systems I've used.
So it's possible I'm wrong when speaking of F7.

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