Troy,

On  1.04.08, 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.

Sounds good. I'll try that.

(I'll let you know if it *doesn't* work.)

> 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.
>
Thanks for the tip!

 
> 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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