Troy,

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi,
> The real problem stems from RedHat putting in an epoch of 1 in their 
> openoffice.org rpm's.  I'm not sure why they did that, but they did.  No 
> going back once there is an epoch in there.
> 
> The simple thing is to put an excludes into your yum.conf
> 
> So, edit
> 
> /etc/yum.conf
> 
> and put in the line
> 
> exclude=openoffice*
> 
> That *should* fix things.
> I'm not a pup user, I mainly do things via command line, but I *think* 
> that pup and yumex honor /etc/yum.conf.  If not, then we need to find 
> where you put the excludes line for them.

Indeed, it does. It's just a graphical front-end for yum api.

> Troy
> 
> p.s. OpenOffice 2.4 is out now.  While you're in the middle of doing all 
> this, you might as well update to it.  It just came out a couple days ago.
> 
> Steve White wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> On  1.04.08, John Summerfield wrote:
>>> Steve White wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I installed openoffice by hand
>>>>     openoffice.org-base-2.3.1-9238.i586
>>>> now pup keeps bothering me about updating to
>>>>     openoffice.org-base - 1:2.0.4-5.4.25.x86_64
>>>> If I follow pup's advice, openoffice becomes unusable.
>>> That's what you get for breaking the rules;-)
>>>
>> Ah yes, the secret rules!
>>
>>> I presume you downloaded a tarball?
>>>
>> It was a tarball.  See below.
>>
>>> I suggest you "rpm --erase" the old one. If you installed the
>>> replacement sensibly, that will be the end of it.
>>>
>> I removed the old one with yumex before I installed the new one.
>> Is that not enough?
>>
>> $ rpm -qa | grep openoffice
>>
>> openoffice.org-core04-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-freedesktop-menus-2.3-9238.noarch
>> openoffice.org-core03u-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-base-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-core09-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-onlineupdate-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-core06-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-emailmerge-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-core02-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-core07-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-math-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-kde-integration-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-core05-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-calc-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-suse-menus-2.3-9238.noarch
>> openoffice.org-core05u-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-impress-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-pyuno-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-core04u-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-core10-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-mandriva-menus-2.3-9238.noarch
>> openoffice.org-gnome-integration-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-writer-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-graphicfilter-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-core08-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-headless-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-core03-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-redhat-menus-2.3-9238.noarch
>> openoffice.org-core01-2.3.1-9238.i586
>> openoffice.org-draw-2.3.1-9238.i586
>>
>> What should I erase here?  These seem to be all from the newer
>> (non-distro) version.
>>
>>> At worst, you will need to reinstall your download (but check first for
>>> a newer one, OOo on Windows was just nagging me).
>>>
>>> If my assumptions are bad, best you go into more detail about just what
>>> you have done.
>>>
>> I think I did this:
>>
>>         removed the distribution openoffice with yumex
>>         ran the installer from the tarball
>>                 OOo_2.3.1_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz
>>                 (It put stuff in /opt)
>> then
>>         pup came up offering to re-install the old distro version
>> then
>>         I wrote to the mailing list
>>
>> But I have been through this before, that's how I know not to do
>> what pup suggests.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
> 
> 


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