Broken OO2 update

Patrick fedora at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Thu Oct 27 11:29:29 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 13:19 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> While in the middle of a yum update last night, someone who loves me
> closed the terminla window. Now, when I open Open Office, I still have
> version 1, but in the about field, it says version 2.0!
> 
> What should I do? Can I just uninstall OO and then reinstall via yum?
> I tried the command (I am not proficient at yum) "yum openoffice
> uninstall" but that didn't do it.

You can remove all openoffice.org rpms with:
rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org- | xargs rpm -e

Then reinstall the openoffice.org-* rpms with:
yum install openoffice.org-*

Works for me, your mileage may vary. Use at own risk etc.

Regards,
Patrick




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