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.

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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