{"id":4302,"date":"2011-02-11T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:31:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T21:31:32","slug":"installing-openoffice-3-3-x-under-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4302","title":{"rendered":"Installing OpenOffice 3.3.x under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re actually trying to install another version of OpenOffice or under a different version of RHEL<\/abbr>, then click on the OpenOffice<\/q> tag<\/a>, as there may be an entry on that other version.<\/p>

Because of a font-fallback problem with the combination of RHEL<\/abbr> 6.0 and OpenOffice 3.2 or 3.3, I am considerably less happy with OpenOffice and more unhappy with Red Hat. But a fair number of the visits to this 'blog are by people looking to install OpenOffice on RHEL<\/abbr>, so this entry updates my suggested procedure for installing OpenOffice 3.2.x under RHEL<\/abbr> 6.x<\/a>:<\/p>

  1. If you don't have a JRE<\/abbr> installed, then install one. As I write, Sun is at update 23<\/a> (while OpenOffice is at update 22), but check with Sun<\/a> for a more recent version when you are installing OpenOffice. (I suggest that one use jdk-6uxx<\/var>-linux-<\/code>xxx<\/var>-rpm<\/strong>.bin<\/code> or jre-6uxx<\/var>-linux-<\/code>xxx<\/var>-rpm<\/strong>.bin<\/code>, rather than jre-6uxx<\/var>-linux-<\/code>xxx<\/var>.bin<\/code>.) The remainder of these instructions assume that one has a JRE<\/abbr> installed.<\/p><\/li>

  2. Remove any earlier installation of OpenOffice. As root, enter these three commands:

    rpm -qa | grep openoffice | xargs rpm -e --nodeps
    rpm -qa | grep ooobasis | xargs rpm -e --nodeps
    rpm -qa | grep fake-db | xargs rpm -e --nodeps<\/code><\/blockquote><\/p><\/li>

  3. Unpack OOo_3.3.x<\/span>_Linux_x86_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz<\/a> or OOo_3.3.x<\/span>_Linux_x86-64_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz<\/a> (or the version appropriate to a devil-language<\/a>, if you use one of those) to your filespace.<\/p><\/li>

  4. Go into resulting OOO33x<\/var>_mxx<\/var>_native_packed-x<\/var>_en-US.xxxx<\/var>\/RPMS<\/strong>\/<\/code> (or to the OOO33x<\/var>_mxx<\/var>_native_packed-x<\/var>_xx<\/var>-xx<\/var>.xxxx<\/var>\/RPMS<\/strong>\/<\/code> corresponding to your devil-tongue).<\/p><\/li>

  5. As root, run these three commands

    find . -maxdepth 1 -name \"o*.rpm\" | xargs rpm -U
    rpm -U desktop-integration\/openoffice.org*-redhat-menus-*.noarch.rpm
    rpm -U userland\/*.rpm<\/code><\/blockquote><\/p><\/li>

  6. Tell OpenOffice which JRE<\/abbr> to use:

    • Launch OpenOffice:
      \/usr\/bin\/openoffice.org3<\/code><\/blockquote><\/li>
    • Select
      Tools | Options… | OpenOffice.org | Java | Use a Java runtime environment<\/blockquote><\/li>
    • Choose one of the environments that is then listed.<\/li>
    • Click the OK<\/q> button.<\/li>
    • Shut-down OpenOffice. (The selection of JRE<\/abbr> will be in effect upon next launch.)<\/li><\/ul><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re actually trying to install another version of OpenOffice or under a different version of RHEL, then click on the OpenOffice tag, as there may be an entry on that other version. Because of a font-fallback problem with the combination of RHEL 6.0 and OpenOffice 3.2 or 3.3, I am considerably less happy with […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4],"tags":[915,72,139,140,143,142],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-public","tag-centos","tag-linux","tag-openoffice","tag-red-hat","tag-redhat","tag-rhel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}