I have open office 3.2.1 on my fedora 14 machine and love it - I am considering upgrading my machine to fedora 16.

I have fedora 16 on my wifes computer. It came with libre - which I dont want to use since there is a new learning curve and Im very well up to speed on open office. I've spent years getting good at office - I dont have time to do that again with libre.

So I am trying to make sure I can install open office on her fedora 16 system befoire i pull the fedora 14 rug out from under my machine.

I dpwnloaded oo 3.3.o to her system, did the su thing and tried to install

It quit and told me that the install failed becuse verious libre routines held the spots that corresponding openoffice routines should hold.

can i use yum or something else to remove libre? if i do should open office install correctly? is there any reason not to?

from the install

Package Name: openoffice.org-ure-1.7.0-9567.i586.rpm
rpm --upgrade --ignoresize -vh --relocate /opt=//opt
"/home/knox/Downloads/OOO330_m20_native_packed-1_en-US.9567/RPMS/openoffice.org-ure-1.7.0-9567.i586.rpm"
Returns: 1 Error during installation
error: Failed dependencies:
openoffice.org-ure 1:3.3.1 is obsoleted by (installed) libreoffice-ure-1:3.4.5.2-12.fc16.i686

Package Name: ooobasis3.3-core01-3.3.0-9567.i586.rpm
etc

LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. The menus etc. are the same.

This will tell you more: http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/

There is no learning curve, at least, no more of a learning curve than there was between versions of OOo.

In fact, when I moved to LibreOffice, I was able to use my existing OOo templates in LibreOffice with no modification whatsoever.

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Frank
I checked and darned if you aren't 100% right

Thanks

Dick

You are most welcome.