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Distribution: Kubuntu Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft;Red Hat Linux 9 Personal Edition
Posts: 39
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How can I upgrade openoffice 1.0 in redhat 9?
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.
Distribution: Kubuntu Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft;Red Hat Linux 9 Personal Edition
Posts: 39
Original Poster
Rep:
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.
Distribution: Ubuntu, Debian, Various using VMWare
Posts: 2,088
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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.
Distribution: Kubuntu Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft;Red Hat Linux 9 Personal Edition
Posts: 39
Original Poster
Rep:
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.
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