Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-14 Thread Bill Maidment
On 14/08/2019 7:35 pm, Kay Diederichs wrote: if you exclude it in /etc/yum.conf then yum will not install it when you ask it to, depending on how you specify the exclude= pattern! Of course. Also there is no need to exclude because the LO6 rpms are labelled with 6.n appended to the name

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-14 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 8/12/19 2:48 AM, Fred Smith wrote: ... > > I removed the distro-provided LO, excluded it so yum won't try > to reinstall it, some time ago. ... > I don't understand why yum refuses to install it, while rpm will. if you exclude it in /etc/yum.conf then yum will not install it when you ask it

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-11 Thread Bill Maidment
Since my posting, I've remembered that the last time I installed LO I had the same problem and my "solution" was to use rpm -ivh *.rpm instead of yum. that workaround works fine. Perhaps having moved over to the dark-side (rpm) you will be stuck using that, until redeemed by CentOS 8 with

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 01:51:21PM +1000, Bill Maidment wrote: > On 11/08/2019 1:25 pm, Frank Cox wrote: > >On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:13 -0400 > >Fred Smith wrote: > > > >>unpack all the rpm files, type "yum install *.rpm", or "yum > >>localinstall > >>*.rpm" and yum spews the list of filenames

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-10 Thread Bill Maidment
On 11/08/2019 1:25 pm, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:13 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: unpack all the rpm files, type "yum install *.rpm", or "yum localinstall *.rpm" and yum spews the list of filenames (with the word "examining" in front of each file) then says "nothing to do". Do

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:13 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > unpack all the rpm files, type "yum install *.rpm", or "yum localinstall > *.rpm" and yum spews the list of filenames (with the word "examining" in front > of each file) then says "nothing to do". Do you have anu version of libreoffice

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-10 Thread Peter
On 11/08/19 2:37 PM, Fred Smith wrote: As in subject, am attempting to install latest LibreOffice on C7. CentOS 7 comes with Libreoffice 5.3.6.1. There is no support for installing newer versions from other sources. unpack all the rpm files, RPM files from where? We don't supply

[CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-10 Thread Fred Smith
As in subject, am attempting to install latest LibreOffice on C7. unpack all the rpm files, type "yum install *.rpm", or "yum localinstall *.rpm" and yum spews the list of filenames (with the word "examining" in front of each file) then says "nothing to do". what the hey? I tried "yum clean