OOo 2.3

[ethericalzen at gmail.com]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:41:56 -0400
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> took out a #2 pencil and
scribbled:

> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:04:34PM -0500, ethericalzen at gmail.com
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:44:04 -0400
> > fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> took out a #2 pencil
> > and scribbled:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:07:53AM -0500,
> > > ethericalzen at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:58:50 -0400
> > > > Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> took out a #2 pencil and
> > > > scribbled:
> > > > 
> > > > > Does anyone have any idea when OpenOffice 2.3 will be
> > > > > built for Fedora?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Failing that: if I wanted to build it myself, must I first
> > > > > uninstall the RPM's for OOo 2.0.4?
> > > > > 
> > > > > This might be slightly off-topic, but OOo 2.3 has a lot to
> > > > > recommend it--including, for the first time in any word
> > > > > processor I have seen, an option to export Writer content
> > > > > to MediaWiki format. I've been toying with the idea of
> > > > > promoting the keeping of medical-practice records, and a
> > > > > small patient-oriented medical knowledge base, on a Wiki.
> > > > > Having an off-line (meaning off-the-project) Wiki text
> > > > > editor would be a real boon.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Temlakos
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > You should be able to download the tarball from
> > > > OpenOffice.org (it's a tarball of RPMS) and install it that
> > > > way. You'll have to uninstall OpenOffice first though via
> > > > yum or rpm -e.
> > > 
> > > No, you don't have to uninstall OOo first, the RPMs from oo.o
> > > install in separate places and insert their own menu entries,
> > > so the distribution's version and the OOo version coexist
> > > happily.
> > > 
> > 
> > Really? Well that's my mistake. I couldn't get them to coexist
> > together. Once I installed OpenOffice 2.3 (I had not installed
> > stock Openoffice during initial install), yum wanted to update
> > my OpenOffice 2.3 down to the repo. I had to exclude OpenOffice
> > in my yum config to keep it from warning about the update every
> > time I did a yum update. 
> 
> OK, I need to divulge that I haven't tried it on F7, but it has 
> worked that way for me on other RH and RH-derived systems I've
> used. So it's possible I'm wrong when speaking of F7.
> 

Oh I totally believe you, it just wasn't my experience. I know that
you _should_ be able to install them side by side since they
OpenOffice 2.3 does install into /opt. It's that whole YMMV thing
I'm pretty sure.

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