On Saturday 19 April 2003 12:43, Landy wrote:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:37:14 +0000

Oo is not distributed by rpm means, so i have a tar.gz file. So, is it good to do the uninstall using YAST ?

Marco Oliveira wrote:

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Hello, I would like to know how can i uninstall the openoffice that comes with suse 8.1 and install the new version. I had some link problems a time ago, so, is there some way to do a clean unisntall and a claen install again. Please be specific.

well uninstall should be as easy as rpm -e openoffice <or oo> whatever the package name is

new package if its rpm then you dont even have to uninstall just do rpm -Uvh package

On Saturday 19 April 2003 13:52, John LeMay wrote: sorry, but i didn't quite understand the last phrase. "...If I recall correctly you need to install from the extracted archive as root, then run install from the directory you just installed to as your normal user id to set everything up properly. ..." Can you explain it again ? Thanks for your time

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Oo is not distributed by rpm means, so i have a tar.gz file. So, is it good to do the uninstall using YAST ?

The version that comes with SuSE 8.1 is an rpm:

jlemay@gambit:~> rpm -qa|grep OpenOffice OpenOffice_org-en-help-1.0.1-42 OpenOffice_org-en-1.0.1-42 OpenOffice_org-1.0.1-42

So, rpm -e these packages. You may want to also rm -rf ~/.openoffice to remove your personal settings as well. Be careful though - you may have data stored there that you want to keep. Be sure to move that data before you rm the directory.

You can then extract that tar file (tar zxf file.tar.gz) and reinstall. If I recall correctly you need to install from the extracted archive as root, then run install from the directory you just installed to as your normal user id to set everything up properly.

On Saturday 19 April 2003 15:17, wolfi wrote: Can you tell-me were can i find the .sversionsrc file ? Thank you for the explanation. Thanks

On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 15:57, Marco Oliveira wrote:

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On Saturday 19 April 2003 13:52, John LeMay wrote:

sorry, but i didn't quite understand the last phrase.

"...If I recall correctly you need to install from the extracted archive as root, then run install from the directory you just installed to as your normal user id to set everything up properly. ..."

Can you explain it again ?

Thanks for your time

OK, you first unpack the tar.gz file:

# tar xzvf OOo_1.0.3_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz

Then you move into the 'install' directory, which is created by the tar xzvf command:

# cd install

There you run a './install' or a './setup' as root. One of them runs graphically, the other one runs on the command line. The graphical setup allows you to change the installation directory to /opt/OpenOffice.org as ist used by the SuSE rpms, the command line version installs to /usr/local/OpenOffice.org

Next time you start OO as user, this 'user installation' runs automatically (if required). If OO fails to run at all, then you should have a look at your .sversionsrc file and edit it to include the new version. Just append a new line, which is a copy of one of the older lines and change it to match the new version number.

Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net

On Saturday 19 April 2003 15:51, Philipp Thomas wrote: [Versions] #OpenOffice.org 1.0.1=file:///home/marco/OpenOffice.org1.0.1 OpenOffice.org 1.0.3=file:///home/marco/OpenOffice.org1.0.3 this is what i have now. I puted # onthe first line. The problem now is to link the Oo links that are in the Kde->office menu's in to the new Oo, and to do the associations of all office file type to Oo. Can ytou tell me how to do this ?

Marco Oliveira [19 Apr 2003 15:29:34]:

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Can you tell-me were can i find the .sversionsrc file ?

It's in the home directory of the user, i.e. ~/.sversionrc

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Could you possibly refrain from such full quotes? 35 lines of quote for 4 lines of reply isn't really needed.

Philipp