LinuxQuestions.org - Difficulty installing LibreOffice on Scientific Linux 6.0

AMD 64-bit quad core
Scientific Linux 6.0
Gnome 2.28

I have been trying to install openoffice, or libreoffice, and it's just an awful chore.

I tried using the gui tool. When I searched for libreoffice, I got nothing. When I searched for openoffice, I got a disorganized mess of separate apps, most of which seemed to have nothing to do with any office.

I got openoffice writer installed, then openoffice calc, but calc does not work.

So I downloaded libreoffice, and I am trying to go though the manual chore of getting it installed. But, the old openoffice is conflicting, and uninstalling open office is no easy task.

I went to the gui tool, and uninstalled the openoffice apps. But I when I try to install the desktop-integration RPMs, I keep getting a long series errors like this:

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file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.sun.xml.writer.png from install of libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus-3.3-202.noarch conflicts with file from package openoffice.org-core-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_0.5.x86_64
file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.sun.xml.writer.template.png from install of libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus-3.3-202.noarch conflicts with file from package openoffice.org-core-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_0.5.x86_64
file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.sun.xml.writer.template.png from install of libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus-3.3-202.noarch conflicts with file from package openoffice.org-core-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_0.5.x86_64
file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.sun.xml.writer.template.png from install of libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus-3.3-202.noarch conflicts with file from package openoffice.org-core-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_0.5.x86_64

When I try to remove these files individually, I get:

Quote:

#rpm -e openoffice.org-core-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_0.5.x86_64
error: package openoffice.org-core-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_0.5.x86_64 is not installed