How to update to OpenOffice 2.0. ?

[Paul Erickson]

Thanks for the reply. See below.

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 08:02:08AM -0700, Paul Erickson wrote:
>> Reading the thread on "Plan for OpenOffice 2.0.3" drew my attention to
>> the fact that my machine has openoffice-1.0.2-11. When I try to update
>> with "check-update openoffice*" I get:
>
>
> Err, what version of Fedora do you have? The package that came with 
> FC2 is
> 1.1.1-4. Yet you have yum, and judging from its output, something 
> relatively
> recent.
FC5 but this is an upgrade from RH9
>> updates [2/3]
>> extras [3/3]
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> but when it is done, rpm -q openoffice returns "openoffice-1.0.2-11"
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Oh, also, here's a thing: since OpenOffice is officially and clumsily 
> named
> OpenOffice.org (yes, the office suite name contains the actual TLD, 
> making
> me always think "shouldn't the web site then be openoffice.org.org?"), so
> the package is "openoffice.org", not just "openoffice"....
>
Thanks for the syntax clarification. Tried it, and got the following?
# yum update openoffice.org
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates [2/3]
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras [3/3]
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 467 kB 00:03
updates : ################################################## 1367/1367
Added 10 new packages, deleted 65 old in 8.95 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.1 MB 00:07
extras : ################################################## 4109/4109
Added 2334 new packages, deleted 460 old in 52.40 seconds
Could not find update match for openoffice.org
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

Looks like still have a problem.

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