Hi Michael, Since you pay RedHat why not ask them? regards, Stephen. On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Michael Hannon wrote: > Greetings. We're running a mixture of Redhat Enterprise Linux, version > 3 (RHEL 3) and Scientific Linux version 3 (SL 3). We happen to be > running RHEL on our AMD (Opteron) workstations, simply because SL either > wasn't available for them or wasn't on our radar when we got the > workstations. > > Redhat has recently announced a patch (or patch set?) for openoffice. > We've tried on two different Opteron, x86_64 systems to install the > patch. It fails on both of them in weird ways, as, for instance: > > # /usr/sbin/up2date --update --nox > Invalid group id server-cfg > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3... > > Fetching rpm headers... > ######################################## > > Name Version Rel > ---------------------------------------------------------- > openoffice.org 1.1.2 24.2.0.EL3 > i386 > openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.2 24.2.0.EL3 > i386 > openoffice.org-libs 1.1.2 24.2.0.EL3 > i386 > > > Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... > There was a package dependency problem. The message was: > > Unresolvable chain of dependencies: > openoffice.org-libs 1.1.2-24.2.0.EL3 requires libbonobo-activation.so.4 > openoffice.org-libs 1.1.2-24.2.0.EL3 requires libgnomevfs-2.so.0 > > We tried just removing all of the openoffice* stuff and reinstalling. > The results are at least equally strange: > > ]# up2date openoffice > Invalid group id server-cfg > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3... > > Fetching rpm headers... > ######################################## > > Name Version Rel > ---------------------------------------------------------- > openoffice 1.0.2 8 > i386 > > > Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... > ######################################## > openoffice-1.0.2-8.i386.rpm ########################## Done. > There was a package dependency problem. The message was: > Dependencies should have already been resolved, but they are not. > > On the other hand, if we do a "yum update" on our SL 3.0.3, i386 > systems, the new openoffice stuff installs perfectly. > > I'd appreciate hearing comments, suggestions, etc., about this. > > Thanks. > > - Mike > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [log in to unmask] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/