On Jul 9, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr>
wrote:
> Lanny Marcus wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Lanny Marcus<lmmailingli...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
>>> <nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr> wrote:
>>>> Lanny Marcus wrote:
>>>>> I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
>>> <snip>
>>>> you are mixing two different sources for OO: some of your installed
>>>> packages come from the OO website, and you are trying to yum install the
>>>> centos version on top of that.
>>> <snip>
>>> Nicolas: Apparently, I have removed most of the original installation
>>> of OO. What yum command(s) should I use, to remove any remaining
>>> packages from that installation?
>> <snip>
>> Nicolas: I haven't had enough coffee this morning and my first reply
>> asked about removing via yum. Apparently, the corrupted (partially
>> removed) installation of OO was not installed via yum. Questions:
>> Where should I look for remnants of that installation? Do I need to do
>> that manually or are there yum or rpm commands I can use to remove the
>> remnants? TIA! Lanny
>
> you should ba able to list all installed rpms from OO.org with this command:
> rpm -qa | grep -P 'openoffice|ooobasis'
>
> you then want to feed these packages to 'rpm -e' ("erase", ie uninstall).
>
> when you're clean of all openoffice packages, use yum to install the
> centos version.
You can use yum to remove what was manually installed via rpm.
# yum remove 'openoffice*'
-Ross
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