How can I upgrade openoffice 1.0 in redhat 9?

aiims1777 · 09-30-2004, 01:08 AM

Openoffice.org 1.0 is the default package with my RedHat 9 distro. I want to upgrade to the latest version of openoffice.org
I would like to do this using yum or apt-get (both of which I have got).
Can someone tell me the changes to be made in my yum.conf or sources.list files so that I can point them to an appropriate repository?
Or is there any other way to do this upgrade?
I have googled for a long time and found no answers. Would appreciate your help.
Thanks.

IBall · 09-30-2004, 02:43 AM

I don't know where an OO rpm would be.

Perhaps a good way would be to uninstall OpenOffice (Using Add/Remove Programs), and then download and install a binary from www.openoffice.org

--Ian

aiims1777 · 09-30-2004, 02:46 AM

The problem is that the complete download is around 70 mb and on my slow dial-up connection, it would take me 12 hours to download it from the openoffice.org website.

mikedeatworld · 09-30-2004, 08:57 AM

not sure how else you are going to get a file other than buying a disk, or downloading the file?

i guess those are your options....?

aiims1777 · 09-30-2004, 11:00 PM

I don't want to download the whole package. Just to upgrade it.

IBall · 10-01-2004, 12:50 AM

I don't know if it is possible to just upgrade it. I think you mean that you only want to download an upgrade version, which is installed on top of the old version, replacing only the upgraded parts

When you use apt-get or yum, the whole rpm is downloaded, and when you upgrade, the old package is simply replaced with the new package.

--Ian

aiims1777 · 10-01-2004, 02:43 AM

No. Just like you upgrade your Mozilla web browser and it does not need the installation of the whole package but only the addition of a few libraries and other files. Something like that.

Adony · 10-01-2004, 09:41 AM

I think there's no available "upgrade version" for OOffice in binary format ...

chrism01 · 10-01-2004, 10:57 AM

I'd like to get the latest OO for RH9 as well, but I want to use YUM to handle the dependencies.
Anybody got a repository?