YUM

Micro420 · 01-13-2008, 08:03 PM

I manually downloaded and installed the new OpenOffice 2.3.1. The version originally installed is 2.0. Every time I run the OpenOffice 2.3.1 setup, it installs fine, but then YUM/PUP will pop up telling me there is an "update". It wants to revert back to the old OpenOffice 2.0. How do I tell YUM to get rid of the OpenOffice 2.0 in its database? I have tried uninstalling 2.0 from YUM, installing the new OpenOffice 2.3.1, but the "update" comes right back wanting to go back to OpenOffice 2.0.

jailbait · 01-13-2008, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Micro420

I manually downloaded and installed the new OpenOffice 2.3.1. The version originally installed is 2.0. Every time I run the OpenOffice 2.3.1 setup, it installs fine, but then YUM/PUP will pop up telling me there is an "update". It wants to revert back to the old OpenOffice 2.0. How do I tell YUM to get rid of the OpenOffice 2.0 in its database? I have tried uninstalling 2.0 from YUM, installing the new OpenOffice 2.3.1, but the "update" comes right back wanting to go back to OpenOffice 2.0.

What install method did you use for OpenOffice 2.3.1? I have had similar problems in the past when I installed packages outside of the package manager system (yum in Fedora). The best solution that I ever came up with was to create a rpm package and install it using the rpm command.

In other words if you are compiling OpenOffice 2.3.1 from source then use checkinstall to create a rpm package. Then use yum or the rpm command to uninstall Openoffice 2.0. Then install the OpenOffice 2.3.1 rpm package using the rpm command or you might be able to talk yum into installing a local rpm package. Hopefully this will set up things in the rpm data base to where yum understands that 2.3.1 is the latest version.

If Fedora does not have checkinstall available you can get it here:

http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

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Steve Stites

Micro420 · 01-13-2008, 08:21 PM

When I downloaded the OpenOffice 2.3.1 tarball, it came with a setup file which linked to an RPM folder.

problem solved! I uninstalled the packages and instead used the rpm -ivh command to install the RPM's and now YUM doesn't bug me anymore about "updates". Previously I was doing rpm -Uvh. Guess it makes a difference.

reddazz · 01-13-2008, 09:28 PM

I know you already resolved your problem, but for anyone else who is interested, to exclude packages from being updated, you can edit /etc/yum.conf and add an exclude like e.g.

Code:

exclude=openoffice*

Micro420 · 01-13-2008, 09:37 PM

Good to know! Thanks

yngmike · 03-19-2010, 11:17 AM

reddazz.

Thanks for the info. This post comes up right in the top of google

One note for others who might not know.

Exlusions are defined by section of the repo entry in your .repo file (separated by brackets).

So yo will need to exlude per section. Don't just tag this at the end of the file. because it will only apply to the last repo in the list.

-Mike