Can I install OpenOffice.org with Fedora?

[garyjahns]

I am running Fedora Core 6 on an i686 machine, and was using Open Office 2.0.3 for the past year. I just tried to upgrade to OO 2.4. I followed the instructions for downloading and installing on the OO website. Everything seemed to go fine installing the RPMs. The final step is to go to the desktop-integration folder and "install the appropriate desktop interface." I figured the right choice was the Red Hat one. I am not very savvy on running RPMs, so I used the same format, rpm -Uvih openoffice.org-redhat-menus... That got a huge number of messages about conflicts with what looked like components of the other types of desktop interfaces. What is the correct way to install the desktop interface for Fedora? Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Robert Tucker]

Try installing the desktop-integration first?

Otherwise maybe printout some output in the forum.

[AndrewZ]

At the beginning of this process, you should remove the Fedora RPMs. IIRC, they use different names, so they don't upgrade properly. I do something like this

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yum remove "openoffice*"
rpm -Uvh *rpm desktop-integration/*redhat*rpm

[landonmkelsey]

yum remove "openoffice*" worked!
rpm -Uvh *rpm desktop-integration/*redhat*rpm


# rpm -Uvh *rpm desktop-integration/*redhat*rpm
error: File not found by glob: *rpm
error: File not found by glob: desktop-integration/*redhat*rpm
missing soemthing!...did a copy and paste

What else must be done??? for a F14 install