Problem reinstalling openoffice

[Bruno Despin]

Steve,
I'm much something like a beginner with Linux, however if this can help!
I have myself improved a lot of difficulties with the Fedora embedded 
installation of  OpenOffice which to my understanding does'nt work properly.

- rpm installation is based on a  so called  spec files which contains 
all the installation instructions amongst which the dependencies.
This spec file is itself part of the rpm package and I've not already 
found the way extract  and modify it.

- Openoffice.org does'nt support or provide rpm installation untill now 
but only tar.gz

- ooffice comes along with its own installer as installation is quite a 
complex process.

At the end of the day, I did download the ultimate tar.gz  from 
openoffice.org and installed ooffice according to the official 
installation procedure.

It works, however, this is not consistent with the rpm package management.

Bruno