What is the best way to install OpenOffice 3.2 in Fedora 12?

[RossClement]

What is the best way to install OpenOffice 3.2 in Fedora 12?

I currently have 3.1.1 installed, done as part of the install process plus yum updates since then.

I've heard that 3.2 gives much better docx support. I just loaded a .docx file into my current version of OpenOffice, and it looked a bit munged.

[kyryder]

Hello,
I don't know if this is the best way to get 3.2 but it is pretty easy:
DO NOT RUN THE FOLLOWING COMMAND

su -c 'yum --enablerepo=rawhide groupinstall office'

This pulls in 80+ packages but openoffice.org 3.2 will be among them.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR OPENOFFICE.ORG 3.2 FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW.
If you don't want to download rawhide packages you could download it from http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#tested-full

Hope this helps,

Ky

[RossClement]

I did this, but now the computer is acting dodgy when it boots. The first few boots got stuck on the "f" graphic on the blue screen. The fourth time I booted, I hit escape early on, and it bypassed this blue screen and booted, but only after some errors.

It does now have OpenOffice 3.2, but I note it's no better at reading my sample .docx file than 3.1.1. was.

If the computer is now going to be very hard to boot, then I'm in trouble. Is there a simple way of undoing the yum install of the 80 packages and putting the computer back the way it was before?

[enteFinal]

If the computer is now going to be very hard to boot, then I'm in trouble. Is there a simple way of undoing the yum install of the 80 packages and putting the computer back the way it was before?

You can to undo any transaction of yum using its history feature. Uh, you can to take a look here for a How To.

[RossClement]

I've undone the update, and the booting problem remains. At least I've established that hitting the escape key as soon as the "blue" screen appears is a reliable workaround.

I don't know why the update prompted it, but I think the boot problem might be something to do with a failed attempt to install the nvidia drivers which was undone in a rather ad-hoc manner. Some of the error messages mention the kmod-nvidia module. I'll have another go to install nvidia on Sunday and see if that fixes the problem.

Edit: Oh no. Now my mobile phone won't mount on the computer as a USB hard drive. It wouldn't mount on Fedora 4, but would always mount fine on the Fedora 12 machine. Now I have no way of putting music on the damn thing.

It looks like I'm going to have to do a clean install of Fedora 12 and start from scratch. Oh hell, that's a whole day gone

[SlowJet]

What is the best way to install OpenOffice 3.2 in Fedora 12?

I currently have 3.1.1 installed, done as part of the install process plus yum updates since then.

I've heard that 3.2 gives much better docx support. I just loaded a .docx file into my current version of OpenOffice, and it looked a bit munged.

Make a f12 and 1/2 with these.
Get OO0320 mysql-5.1.42.x
samba-3.5.0rc2
LVM2 latest, etfsprogs latest, x11-xorg-drv-intel latest
and some more.

You will the 32 kernel and latest f12 tools like seliunx-policy,

SJ

# rpm -qa | grep fc13 > fc13packs.txt
[root@Ruthie-07 ~]# ls
anaconda-ks.cfg fc13packs.txt install.log install.log.syslog rpmbuild
[root@Ruthie-07 ~]# cat fc13packs.txt

e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.10-3.fc13.i686
libsmbclient-3.5.0-54rc2.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-ure-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-pdfimport-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
device-mapper-libs-1.02.43-4.fc13.i686
samba-common-3.5.0-54rc2.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-math-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
system-config-lvm-1.1.12-1.fc13.noarch
compat-db47-4.7.25-1.fc13.i686
device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-12.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-impress-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
rpm-libs-4.7.2-2.fc13.i686
libtdb-1.2.0-1.fc13.i686
db4-4.8.26-1.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-math-core-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
libblkid-2.17-3.fc13.i686
device-mapper-event-libs-1.02.43-4.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-impress-core-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
compat-db46-4.6.21-1.fc13.i686
libcom_err-1.41.10-3.fc13.i686
lvm2-libs-2.02.60-4.fc13.i686
db4-utils-4.8.26-1.fc13.i686
samba-3.5.0-54rc2.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-core-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-writer-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-draw-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
compat-db45-4.5.20-1.fc13.i686
gdb-7.0.50.20100203-13.fc13.i686
libtalloc-2.0.1-1.fc13.i686
e2fsprogs-1.41.10-3.fc13.i686
device-mapper-event-1.02.43-4.fc13.i686
libevent-1.4.13-1.fc13.i686
samba-winbind-3.5.0-54rc2.fc13.i686
autocorr-en-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.noarch
openoffice.org-graphicfilter-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-langpack-en-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
util-linux-ng-2.17-3.fc13.i686
kpartx-0.4.9-12.fc13.i686
samba-doc-3.5.0-54rc2.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-calc-core-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-calc-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
mysql-libs-5.1.42-7.fc13.i686
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.10.0-4.fc13.i686
device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-12.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-writer-core-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
rpm-python-4.7.2-2.fc13.i686
libuuid-2.17-3.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-presenter-screen-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
samba-client-3.5.0-54rc2.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-brand-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
mysql-5.1.42-7.fc13.i686
compat-db-4.7.25-1.fc13.i686
libss-1.41.10-3.fc13.i686
device-mapper-1.02.43-4.fc13.i686
cifs-utils-3.5.0-54rc2.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-opensymbol-fonts-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.noarch
openoffice.org-xsltfilter-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686
rpm-4.7.2-2.fc13.i686
lvm2-2.02.60-4.fc13.i686
samba-winbind-clients-3.5.0-54rc2.fc13.i686
openoffice.org-draw-core-3.2.0-12.4.fc13.i686

[RossClement]

Unfortunately I have much bigger troubles than updating openoffice now

---------- Post added at 04:28 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 04:14 PM CST ----------

It seems that the computer is refusing to undo the installation done by the command:

su -c 'yum --enablerepo=rawhide groupinstall office'

If I issue the command:

yum history undo 73

then I get the following output, and the installations/updates are not undone. Please can anyone tell me how to undo these so that my computer will boot properly and I can use my phone :

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: mirror.ox.ac.uk
 * rpmfusion-free: fr2.rpmfind.net
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: fr2.rpmfind.net
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: fr2.rpmfind.net
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: fr2.rpmfind.net
 * updates: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
Undoing transaction 73, from Fri Feb 12 21:53:20 2010
    Updated      abrt-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update            1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      abrt-addon-ccpp-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update                       1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update                             1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      abrt-addon-python-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update                         1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      abrt-desktop-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update                    1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      abrt-gui-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update                1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      abrt-libs-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update                 1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      abrt-plugin-bugzilla-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update                            1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      abrt-plugin-logger-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update                          1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      abrt-plugin-runapp-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
    Update                          1.0.6-1.fc13.i686
    Dep-Install  akonadi-1.3.1-2.fc13.i686
...... DELETED AS POST IS TOO LONG
    Update                4.8.0-9.fc13.i686
    Updated      rpm-python-4.7.2-1.fc12.i686
    Update                  4.8.0-9.fc13.i686
    Updated      ruby-libs-1.8.6.383-6.fc12.i686
    Update                 1.8.6.388-7.fc13.i686
    Updated      sendmail-8.14.3-8.fc12.i686
    Update                8.14.4-2.fc13.i686
    Dep-Install  shared-desktop-ontologies-0.2-3.fc13.noarch
    Updated      soprano-2.3.1-1.fc12.i686
    Update               2.4.0.1-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      strigi-libs-0.7.0-1.fc12.i686
    Update                   0.7.1-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      subversion-1.6.6-1.fc12.i686
    Update                  1.6.6-5.fc13.i686
    Updated      systemtap-1.1-1.fc12.i686
    Update                 1.1-1.fc13.i686
    Updated      systemtap-runtime-1.1-1.fc12.i686
    Update                         1.1-1.fc13.i686
    Dep-Install  virtuoso-opensource-6.1.0-2.fc13.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-addon-ccpp-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-addon-python-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-desktop-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-gui-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-libs-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-plugin-bugzilla-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-plugin-logger-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: abrt-plugin-runapp-1.0.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: 1:control-center-2.28.1-12.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: 1:control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-12.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: gnome-screensaver-2.28.0-8.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: gnome-settings-daemon-2.28.1-10.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: kdebase-runtime-4.3.4-2.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: kdebase-runtime-libs-4.3.4-2.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: kdebase-workspace-4.3.4-6.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: kdebase-workspace-libs-4.3.4-6.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: 7:kdegraphics-4.3.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: 7:kdegraphics-libs-4.3.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: 6:kdelibs-4.3.4-3.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: kdepimlibs-4.3.4-2.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: 7:kio_msits-4.3.4-1.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: ksysguardd-4.3.4-6.fc12.i686
Failed to downgrade: oxygen-icon-theme-4.3.4-1.fc12.noarch
Failed to downgrade: planner-0.14.4-13.fc12.i686
Error: No package(s) available to install

[SlowJet]

You can only downgrade to the previous version, not several versions earlier.
And only use fedora repos when doing major surgery.

Anyway, to late now, use next time.
It's time for f12 and 1/2 hand picked rpm's or re-install from what I see.

SJ

P.S. KDE is on you.