On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:41:56 -0400 fred smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > 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. > Oh I totally believe you, it just wasn't my experience. I know that you _should_ be able to install them side by side since they OpenOffice 2.3 does install into /opt. It's that whole YMMV thing I'm pretty sure. -- ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx Life is a prison, death is a release
