How to update to OpenOffice 2.0. ?

[Paul Erickson]

See below:
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:58:55AM -0700, Paul Erickson wrote:
>   
>>> 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
>>     
>
> Sounds like it's accumulated some cruft. Did you do a straight upgrade, or
> has it been through FC1->FC2->FC3->FC4?
>   
You are right about the cruft, this was a straight upgrade, without 
intervening FC1-FC4
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> And *that's* 'cause it's been split into subpackages --
> openoffice.org-writer, openoffice.org-impress, etc.
>
> Try this:
>
>   yum list "openoffice.org*"
>
> to see what's available.
>   
2.0.2 is available
>
> Oh! Try this (as root):
>
>   yum upgrade
>
>   
This returns:

# yum upgrade
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Upgrade Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
updates [2/3]
extras [3/3]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package apr-util.i386 0:1.2.7-1.1 set to be updated
---> Package qt-ODBC.i386 1:3.3.6-0.3.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package qt-MySQL.i386 1:3.3.6-0.3.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package libgssapi.i386 0:0.9-1.FC5 set to be updated
---> Package nfs-utils.i386 1:1.0.8-2.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package qt-PostgreSQL.i386 1:3.3.6-0.3.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package qt-designer.i386 1:3.3.6-0.3.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 set to be installed
---> Package kernel-doc.noarch 0:2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 set to be updated
---> Package qt.i386 1:3.3.6-0.3.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package nfs-utils-lib.i386 0:1.0.8-4.FC5 set to be updated
---> Package qt-devel.i386 1:3.3.6-0.3.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package ckermit.i386 0:8.0.211-5.fc5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 for package: netatalk
--> Processing Dependency: qt = 1:3.1.1-6 for package: qt-Xt
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 for package: netatalk
--> Processing Dependency: qt = 1:3.1.1-6 for package: qt-Xt
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 is needed by package netatalk
Error: Missing Dependency: qt = 1:3.1.1-6 is needed by package qt-Xt


> rather than the normal "yum update". This will process "Obsoletes" tags,
> which is how RPM knows that the old openoffice package is replaced. I'm not
> sure without looking how the package split-up is handled, though -- that may
> actually be magic in the Anaconda installer itself.
>
> While upgrade installs generally work fine, I find it worthwhile to do a
> fresh install every now and then. If you follow good adminstrative practices
> and keep the machine relatively clean, reconfiguring things to be the way
> you want shouldn't be too hard. (It can actually be faster than an upgrade.
>   
Thanks again.

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