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    allinone Posts: 76, Reputation: 1
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    #1

    Jan 25, 2008, 09:52 PM
    How to upgrade OpenOffice on Linux Mandriva?
    I installed OpenOffice2.3.1. I thought that after installation of this version the previous version will be automatically upgraded to new one. When I checked About in the Help I found out that the version is still old (2.0.4). What is an easy way to replace the old version.

    Thank you.
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    Jan 26, 2008, 06:12 AM
    How did you go about upgrading? The latest rpm on the Main Updates
    repository is 2.2.1.

    If you downloaded and installed from the open office site, the
    command names such as oowriter, that Mandriva uses, will no
    longer work.


    Open Office would have been installed (by default), in /opt/openoffice.org2.3/
    with two files created in /usr/bin/
    $ ll /usr/bin/openo*
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59 2007-08-30 13:47 /usr/bin/openoffice.org2.3*
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56 2007-08-30 13:47 /usr/bin/openoffice.org2.3-printeradmin*


    cat /usr/bin/openoffice.org2.3
    #!/bin/sh
    exec /etc/openoffice.org2.3/program/soffice "$@"
    $ cat /usr/bin/openoffice.org2.3-printeradmin
    #!/bin/sh


    exec /etc/openoffice.org2.3/program/spadmin


    Try running "openoffice.org2.3", from the command line. IF that
    works, you'll have to update the menu entries, to point to the
    new program.

    Thanks
    Inzalo
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    #3

    Jan 26, 2008, 10:37 AM
    Inzalo,

    I did not find anything in /usr/bin/
    Only in
    /opt/openoffice.org2.3
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    Jan 26, 2008, 10:58 AM
    :confused: What did you find in /opt/openoffice.org2.3 ?

    I have to come back to you on this one. Will reply soon!:)

    Inzalo
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    Jan 27, 2008, 10:59 AM
    $ pwd
    /opt/openoffice.org2.3
    $ ls
    Help/ licenses/ README share/
    LICENSE presets/ README.html THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html
    LICENSE.html program/ readmes/
    *******************
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    #6

    Jan 27, 2008, 11:46 AM
    I unistalled both versions and installed openoffice.org2.3 from RPMS. According to Installations Steps from download: Instructions for Downloading and Installing OpenOffice.org 2.0 I should "cd to desktop-integration. Depending on your package manager/system, install the appropriate desktop interface" but how to do it?

    Thank you
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    #7

    Jan 27, 2008, 09:54 PM
    inzalo,

    I've figured out how to upgrade to 2.3
    Thanks a lot.

    May I ask you how configure media player to play stream? I think I got all the codecs and plugins.
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    Jan 28, 2008, 01:10 AM
    Hi,
    Great!
    Did you install all the codecs and plug-ins?
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    Jan 28, 2008, 05:40 PM
    I think I got all the codecs and plugins. Is there any way I can check it?

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