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i have tried to get libre office installed without success
on my centos 6.2 install
yum install-packages libreoffice
or yum install
I get loaded plugins:fastest mirror, refresh-packageket, security
loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors. easynews.com
* c6-media:
* updates:mirrors. easynews.com
base
file:///media/cdrecorder/repodata/respomd.xml:[Errno 14]C/n
open/read file:/// media/cdrom/repodata/respomd.xml
Trying another mirror?
Error file:///media/cdrom/repodata/repomd.xml: Error 14 C/n open/read File:/// media/cdrom/repodata/respmd.xml
Trying other mirror.
Error: c/n retrieve repoistory metadata {repomd.xml for reposition: c6-media. please verify its path and try again.
I ran this from username + su to root
I have tried for a couple of days to find how to get past this" please help.
Distribution: Fedora 18, Slackware64 13.37, Windows 7/8
Posts: 386
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by fudmier
i have tried to get libre office installed without success
on my centos 6.2 install
yum install-packages libreoffice
or yum install
I get loaded plugins:fastest mirror, refresh-packageket, security
loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors. easynews.com
* c6-media:
* updates:mirrors. easynews.com
base
file:///media/cdrecorder/repodata/respomd.xml:[Errno 14]C/n
open/read file:/// media/cdrom/repodata/respomd.xml
Trying another mirror?
Error file:///media/cdrom/repodata/repomd.xml: Error 14 C/n open/read File:/// media/cdrom/repodata/respmd.xml
Trying other mirror.
Error: c/n retrieve repoistory metadata {repomd.xml for reposition: c6-media. please verify its path and try again.
I ran this from username + su to root
I have tried for a couple of days to find how to get past this" please help.
Hmm... you seem to have enabled the expected DVD mount path as a repository.
Code:
# Edit:
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
# And change the line:
enabled=1
# to:
enabled=0
I was given a recommendation to change as below.
my directory looks like this
drwxr-xr-x
and the file in the directory is
-rw-r--r-- 1 root CentoOS-Media.repo
so I should be able to edit it with vim?
but each time I attempt to edit the file with vim,
I cannot get my cursor to =1 character to change it to =0?
i thought it might be permissions, but they seem right?
no matter what I do the change will not take?
You could read the README file in the
in the zip file ( 64 bit os ) http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
LibO_3.4.5_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
and run the rpm command that the install instructions tell you to
but cent might not be able to use the NEW one .You might have to use the STABLE version.
LibO_3.3.4_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
Quote:
yum install-packages libreoffice
that also is NOT the command to use .There is no yum command "install-packages"
GoOffice ( a fork of Openoffice) should be in the base repo
try this first
Code:
su -
/* your root password when asked for */
yum search office
from that list it should be there.
then install it
I was given a recommendation to change as below.
my directory looks like this
drwxr-xr-x
and the file in the directory is
-rw-r--r-- 1 root CentoOS-Media.repo
so I should be able to edit it with vim?
but each time I attempt to edit the file with vim,
I cannot get my cursor to =1 character to change it to =0?
i thought it might be permissions, but they seem right?
no matter what I do the change will not take?
Distribution: Fedora 18, Slackware64 13.37, Windows 7/8
Posts: 386
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by fudmier
I was given a recommendation to change as below.
my directory looks like this
drwxr-xr-x
and the file in the directory is
-rw-r--r-- 1 root CentoOS-Media.repo
so I should be able to edit it with vim?
but each time I attempt to edit the file with vim,
I cannot get my cursor to =1 character to change it to =0?
i thought it might be permissions, but they seem right?
no matter what I do the change will not take?
# Edit:
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
# And change the line:
enabled=1
# to:
enabled=0
Dude, seriously. Why are you posting the exact same responses to every suggestion? Are you a robot?
Its not that difficult. Open the repo file and edit it and then let us know if it worked or not. Its not rocket science.
1. Allow me to apologize for the dual posting, it was not intentionally.
2. no part of these suggestions worked.
3. I finally broke down, and paid for a solution. but it took the admin
who knows linux well about 3 hours to install libre office on centos 6.
4. for information neither the so called stable version 3.3.4 or 3.3.5 worked as billed.
5. What happened to the one click install ?
I like libre office, but I cannot go through this each time i rebuild my system.
had to reinstall java.
used yum and many work arounds.
thanks for the help, though it did get me started.
where is an authoritative no cost documentation on centos6 to be found on the net?
RHEL / CentOS/SL never had a "one click" install
SELD and openSUSE do ( not recommended)
what i do not understand is why you were not able to install from the cent repo ( mind you i am on sl6.1)
when i do a yum search for office
Code:
yum search office
i get a LARGE output
Quote:
broffice.org-base.i686 : Database frontend for BrOffice.org
broffice.org-brand.i686 : Core brand for BrOffice.org
broffice.org-calc.i686 : BrOffice.org Spreadsheet Application
broffice.org-draw.i686 : BrOffice.org Drawing Application
broffice.org-impress.i686 : BrOffice.org Presentation Application
broffice.org-math.i686 : BrOffice.org Equation Editor Application
broffice.org-writer.i686 : BrOffice.org Word Processor Application
goffice.i686 : Goffice support libraries
goffice-devel.i686 : Libraries and include files for goffice
openoffice.org-base.i686 : Database frontend for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-base-core.i686 : Database GUI libraries for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-brand.i686 : Core brand for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-bsh.i686 : BeanShell support for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-calc.i686 : OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Application
openoffice.org-calc-core.i686 : Spreadsheet libraries for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-core.i686 : Core modules for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-devel.i686 : Development Libraries for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-diafilter.i686 : DIA diagram shape importer and gallery extension
: for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-draw.i686 : OpenOffice.org Drawing Application
openoffice.org-draw-core.i686 : Drawing libraries for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-emailmerge.i686 : Email mail-merge component for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-graphicfilter.i686 : OpenOffice.org Extra Graphic filters
openoffice.org-headless.i686 : OpenOffice.org Headless plugin
openoffice.org-impress.i686 : OpenOffice.org Presentation Application
openoffice.org-impress-core.i686 : Presentation libraries for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-javafilter.i686 : Optional javafilter module for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-af_ZA.i686 : Afrikaans language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ar.i686 : Arabic language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-as_IN.i686 : Assamese language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-bg_BG.i686 : Bulgarian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-bn.i686 : Bengali language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ca_ES.i686 : Catalan language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-cs_CZ.i686 : Czech language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-cy_GB.i686 : Welsh language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-da_DK.i686 : Danish language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-de.i686 : German language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-dz.i686 : Dzongkha language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-el_GR.i686 : Greek language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-en.i686 : English language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-es.i686 : Spanish language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-et_EE.i686 : Estonian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-eu_ES.i686 : Basque language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-fi_FI.i686 : Finnish language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-fr.i686 : French language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ga_IE.i686 : Irish language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-gl_ES.i686 : Galician language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-gu_IN.i686 : Gujarati language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-he_IL.i686 : Hebrew language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-hi_IN.i686 : Hindi language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-hr_HR.i686 : Croatian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-hu_HU.i686 : Hungarian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-it.i686 : Italian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ja_JP.i686 : Japanese language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-kn_IN.i686 : Kannada language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ko_KR.i686 : Korean language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-lt_LT.i686 : Lithuanian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-mai_IN.i686 : Maithili language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ml_IN.i686 : Malayalam language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-mr_IN.i686 : Marathi language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ms_MY.i686 : Malay language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-nb_NO.i686 : Bokmal language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-nl.i686 : Dutch language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-nn_NO.i686 : Nynorsk language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-nr_ZA.i686 : Southern Ndebele language pack for
: OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-nso_ZA.i686 : Northern Sotho language pack for
: OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-or_IN.i686 : Oriya language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-pa.i686 : Punjabi language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-pl_PL.i686 : Polish language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-pt_BR.i686 : Brazilian Portuguese language pack for
: OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-pt_PT.i686 : Portuguese language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ro.i686 : Romanian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ru.i686 : Russian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-sk_SK.i686 : Slovak language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-sl_SI.i686 : Slovenian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-sr.i686 : Serbian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ss_ZA.i686 : Swati language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-st_ZA.i686 : Southern Sotho language pack for
: OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-sv.i686 : Swedish language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ta_IN.i686 : Tamil language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-te_IN.i686 : Telugu language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-th_TH.i686 : Thai language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-tn_ZA.i686 : Tswana language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-tr_TR.i686 : Turkish language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ts_ZA.i686 : Tsonga language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-uk.i686 : Ukrainian language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ur.i686 : Urdu language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-ve_ZA.i686 : Venda language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-xh_ZA.i686 : Xhosa language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-zh_CN.i686 : Simplified Chinese language pack for
: OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-zh_TW.i686 : Traditional Chinese language pack for
: OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-langpack-zu_ZA.i686 : Zulu language pack for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-math.i686 : OpenOffice.org Equation Editor Application
openoffice.org-math-core.i686 : Equation editor libraries for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-ogltrans.i686 : 3D OpenGL slide transitions for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-opensymbol-fonts.noarch : OpenOffice.org dingbats font
openoffice.org-pdfimport.i686 : PDF Importer for OpenOffice.org Draw
openoffice.org-presentation-minimizer.i686 : Shrink OpenOffice.org presentations
openoffice.org-presenter-screen.i686 : Presenter Screen for OpenOffice.org
: Presentations
openoffice.org-pyuno.i686 : Python support for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-report-builder.i686 : Create database reports from OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-rhino.i686 : JavaScript support for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-sdk.i686 : Software Development Kit for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-sdk-doc.i686 : Software Development Kit documentation for
: OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-testtools.i686 : Testtools for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-wiki-publisher.i686 : Create Wiki articles on MediaWiki servers
: with OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-writer.i686 : OpenOffice.org Word Processor Application
openoffice.org-writer-core.i686 : Word Processor libraries for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-xsltfilter.i686 : Optional xsltfilter module for OpenOffice.org
python-openoffice.noarch : Python libraries for interacting with OpenOffice.org
trytond-openoffice.noarch : OpenOffice.org support for Tryton Server
catdoc.i686 : A program which converts Microsoft office files to plain text
imposter.i686 : Standalone viewer for OpenOffice presentations
kacst-office-fonts.noarch : Fonts for arabic from arabeyes project
openoffice.org-ure.i686 : UNO Runtime Environment
pidgin-sipe.i686 : Pidgin protocol plugin to connect to MS Office Communicator
purple-sipe.i686 : Libpurple protocol plugin to connect to MS Office
: Communicator
unoconv.noarch : Tool to convert between any document format supported by
: OpenOffice
GoOffice AND OpenOffice are there
and when i run
Code:
yum grouplist
i have
" Office Suite and Productivity"
so
by running
Code:
su -
yum groupinstall " Office Suite and Productivity"
that will install EVERYTHING
mind you i have these repos installed and running
( output from " yum repolist" )
Code:
adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated 15+2
elrepo ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - 122+17
elrepo-extras ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - 0+6
elrepo-kernel ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Kernel Reposi 14+2
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - i386 5,556+75
rpmforge RHEL 6.1 - RPMforge.net - dag 3,122+1,094
sl Scientific Linux 6.1 - i386 4,777
sl-security Scientific Linux 6.1 - i386 - security updates 663
Distribution: Fedora 18, Slackware64 13.37, Windows 7/8
Posts: 386
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by fudmier
1. Allow me to apologize for the dual posting, it was not intentionally.
2. no part of these suggestions worked.
3. I finally broke down, and paid for a solution. but it took the admin
who knows linux well about 3 hours to install libre office on centos 6.
4. for information neither the so called stable version 3.3.4 or 3.3.5 worked as billed.
5. What happened to the one click install ?
I like libre office, but I cannot go through this each time i rebuild my system.
had to reinstall java.
used yum and many work arounds.
thanks for the help, though it did get me started.
where is an authoritative no cost documentation on centos6 to be found on the net?
I'm personally sorry you had so much trouble, but this should have been a 2 minute fix. Yum wasn't letting you install packages because it wanted to update a repo that doesn't exist (on your DVD) so all you had to do was disable that repo.
LibreOffice is in the repo and it is a one-click installation.
It sounds like your Linux "admin", doesn't really know Linux at all because the error message is perfectly clear.
In any event, your problem is resolved and thats the important thing!
I think LibreOffice 4.0 is now a good option to install, its very fast and feature rich. You can download its RPMs for CentOS 6 directly from libreoffice.org and install them. Its very easy. You can click libreoffice 4 in CentOS 6 to find the installation instruction.
linuxexplore you are aware that this thread is 13 months old .
my last post was on " 01-28-12" 2012
and centos 6.1 is no longer supported 6.3 is
mind you that cent like RHEL will never change the major version of a program over the 10/13 year life span
third party repos might but not the base and updates
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