[Solved] Issues Installing OO 3.4.1 on RHEL 6.3

[OO.Believer]

I would like to install Open Office v3.4.1 on my Linux RHEL v6.3 configuration.

I *think* I removed Open Office in favor of Libre Office; I'd like to evaluate OO 3.4.1 now. There don't appear to be any "leftover" RPMs for OO.

When I attempt to install the OO 3.4.1 RPMs I encounter (the excerpt):

file /opt/openoffice.org/ure/lib/uuresolver.uno.so conflicts between attempted installs of openoffice.org-ure-3.4.1-9593.x86_64 and openoffice.org-ure-3.4.0-9590.i586
file /opt/openoffice.org/ure/share/java/java_uno.jar conflicts between attempted installs of openoffice.org-ure-3.4.1-9593.x86_64 and openoffice.org-ure-3.4.0-9590.i586
file /opt/openoffice.org/ure/share/java/juh.jar conflicts between attempted installs of openoffice.org-ure-3.4.1-9593.x86_64 and openoffice.org-ure-3.4.0-9590.i586
file /opt/openoffice.org/ure/share/java/jurt.jar conflicts between attempted installs of openoffice.org-ure-3.4.1-9593.x86_64 and openoffice.org-ure-3.4.0-9590.i586
file /opt/openoffice.org/ure/share/java/ridl.jar conflicts between attempted installs of openoffice.org-ure-3.4.1-9593.x86_64 and openoffice.org-ure-3.4.0-9590.i586

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

[Robert Tucker]

Why are you attempting to install the 64 bit in place of the (older) 32 bit?

You are using:

# rpm -Uvh *.rpm

?

[OO.Believer]

I didn't realize I'd installed the 32-bit.

When I visit the OO site, it automatically chooses the version to download.

Is that my issue? Do I need to specify a 32-bit build?

More to the point, if I want to *remove* the "previous" version, how do I go about that?

Thanks in advance.

[Robert Tucker]

if I want to *remove* the "previous" version, how do I go about that?

I think:

# yum remove openoffice*

is supposed to do the trick.

[OO.Believer]

I've tried a number of "yum" variants (remove, install, upgrade) with "openoffice*" as the argument. Invariably, I encounter "openoffice.org*" (in bold font) available but not installed"

When I do "yum list openoffice", I see a number of packages (modules?) but I can't remove any of those either.

Still stumped.

[Robert Tucker]

Can you not use yum extender (yumex) to check what's installed? Or are you trying to install OpenOffice headless at run level 3?

Or how about:

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$ yum list > yumlist.txt
$ grep openoffice yumlist.txt

[OO.Believer]

I was ultimately able to resolve this issue but I'm not sure of the specific action.

Normally, I leave my system in a "suspended" state and very infrequently "reboot", however, I had occasion to do that. After a reboot, I visited openoffice.org, saw there was a v3.4.1 available, downloaded and installed that without issue. Perhaps MY challenge was needing to reboot?

Thanks to all for your suggestions and support.