Unable to update Openoffice.org-core in todays update

[Caolan McNamara]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:13 -0400, Robbie Foust wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just joined the list a few days ago.  Somewhat new to Linux, but not 
> new to computers, so please excuse my ignorance. :-)
> 
> I had a similar problem but I got the error on openoffice.org-core, not 
> on -langpack (I didn't have langpack installed).  It didn't leave -core 
> in an uninstalled state, but rather it still showed 1.9.89-1 installed.  
> I yum removed openoffice (all of it, due to dependencies) and 
> reinstalled it and everything works great now.  Not sure if this is 
> helpful, but figured I'd pass along the info.


Yes, uninstall the old openoffice.org-core-1.9.89 pre 3 manually and
then install the new 1.9.89-3. Between -1 and -3 theres a size
optimization gone into the spec which dramatically reduces the space
required for duplicate wizard resource data copied throughout the
langpacks, unfortunately this replaces a dir with a soft link which
causes grief on an update of -1 to -3, though not for someone upgrading
from fc3 to fc4t2. The disruption is a bit unfortunate, but its a huge
space saving.

C.