How to install openoffice?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Mar 8 21:59:53 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 11:40 -0800, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Using f14.x64
> 
> I'm trying to install a basic openoffice package with calc and whatever 
> reads .pps files.
> 
> yum install openoffice.org* gives me this:
> 
> Install     332 Package(s)
> 
> Total download size: 874 M
> Installed size: 2.3 G
> Is this ok [y/N]: N
> 
> Is this for real?  I don't have much use for hundreds? of language packs 
> (my Gurkali is a bit rusty).
> 
> Does anybody know the magic yum incantation to install something 
> reasonable?  332 packages just doesn't feel reasonable to me.
> 
> TIA,
> Mike Wright

yum grouplist

will give you the name of the group install with a:
yum groupinstall

The group is Office/Productivity
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