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 -- Michael Hannon mailto:[log in to unmask] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677