centos4: upgrading applications

pcandpc · 05-04-2006, 11:25 PM

Hello?

I just downloaded the later OpenOffice,
and would like to install this in replacement
of the existing older OpenOffice.

How can I cleanly remove the older one and
install the newer one in GUI?

I have looked into Add/Remove Applications, but
I cannot seem to be able to add a newer application
and remove an older one.

Thanks.

acid_kewpie · 05-05-2006, 04:43 PM

don't remove the old one, simply upgrade to the new one directly: "rpm -Uvh openoffice-blah.whatever.rpm" and the old one will be removed as part of the process.

pcandpc · 05-05-2006, 10:50 PM

Hi acid_kewpie,

Thanks for your feedback.

Well, the unpacked rpm packages are
quite some. Do I have to issue the
rpm -UVh to each rpm, or is there a
way to simply upgrade the whole rpms
in a sigle command?

acid_kewpie · 05-06-2006, 03:27 AM

there is yum, which centos supports, but i'[m not sure wether it is installed as default. check out the yum entry in the wiki here.

btmiller · 05-07-2006, 03:50 PM

If you can put all of the newer RPMs into a single directory, and cd into it, then:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

should take care of it (make sure that there are no other RPMs that you don't want upgraded in that directory).

pcandpc · 05-11-2006, 03:06 PM

Hi btmiller,

Thanks for your feedback.

Actually, I did some research and
found out the same instruction as
you gave me at:

http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.2...ons.html#linux

However, I'm not clear if this will
remove cleanly of the older openoffice
as it is replaced by the newer one.