[K12OSN] OpenOffice upgrade

[Krsnendu dasa]

On 28/11/06, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/27/06, Krsnendu dasa <krsnendu108 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am running K12ltsp 5 and want to update OpenOffice.org to the latest
> > version 2.0.4 (I hope to solve Impress crashing problems that way.) What
> is
> > the recommended way to do that?
> > 1. Use yum install using the Fedora Core 6 repositories?
> > 2. Download the rpm on OpenOffice.org website and install using rpm
> -Uvih
> > *.rpm
>
> I'd suggest option 1, since I think that gives you the best chance of
> having all the libraries which a) are needed by OO and b) are
> available "off the shelf" in Fedora.
>
> You can do this by doing a straight upgrade to Core 6, though that may
> not work (I've had failures of one sort or another on about 30% of the
> systems I've tried this on). I'm guessing you should use the K12LTSP 6
> beta if you try this route.
>
> If you don't try the upgrade, or it doesn't work when you try it, then
> I'd suggest the following:
>
> 1) Install the "fedora-release" package from Core 6.
> 2) remove any extra yum add-ons (like "yum-fastestmirror")
> 3) Update the "glibc" packages
> 4) update rpm
> 5) update yum
> 4) Update the rest of the packages.


I just want OO.org and dependencies. Is that hard?

Don't be surprised if yum can't
> handle such an update, due to dependency issues. If yum DOES barf, you
> can either remove problem packages OR upgrade a few items at a time (I
> did the latter)

Sounds scary. I don't want to stuff anything up.



Calvin
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