Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Repository with LibreOffice 4.4 for Fedora 21+?

2015-02-05 Thread Tim Lloyd
Funny, I never thought of modifying any yum settings. It just works for me! I'll have to check next time I install Fedora! There is a new version of LO about once very month. I normally grab that and install. I keep the tar.gz files in case I don't like the new version (highly unlikely). I a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Repository with LibreOffice 4.4 for Fedora 21+?

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
As root, edit /etc/yum.conf In the [main] section append a line like   exclude=libreoffice* On Feb 5, 2015 9:37 AM, avamk wrote: > > OK, I followed everyone's tips and was able to replace the Fedora > repository-installed LibreOffice 4.3 with 4.4 installed from the RPMs > downloaded from the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Repository with LibreOffice 4.4 for Fedora 21+?

2015-02-05 Thread avamk
OK, I followed everyone's tips and was able to replace the Fedora repository-installed LibreOffice 4.3 with 4.4 installed from the RPMs downloaded from the LibreOffice site!! Sorry I've never tinkered with YUM configuration before, how to I modify it to ignore LibreOffice updates? Another strange

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Repository with LibreOffice 4.4 for Fedora 21+?

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
Side note... You probably need to modify one of your yum configuration files to tell yum to ignore LO updates. On Feb 5, 2015 9:08 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > > > On 02/05/2015 07:07 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > > Hi :) > > I think you can usually just install over the top to wipe the prev

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Repository with LibreOffice 4.4 for Fedora 21+?

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/05/2015 07:07 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think you can usually just install over the top to wipe the previous version. However on an extremely rare occasion that might not work in which case you might need to remove/uninstall everything and then reinstall the newer version. however wh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Repository with LibreOffice 4.4 for Fedora 21+?

2015-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think you can usually just install over the top to wipe the previous version. However on an extremely rare occasion that might not work in which case you might need to remove/uninstall everything and then reinstall the newer version. however when you do so you can keep the User Profile so

[libreoffice-users] Re: Repository with LibreOffice 4.4 for Fedora 21+?

2015-02-05 Thread avamk
I see. If I install LibreOffice 4.4 manually (via the RPM I'm guessing?) can I just install a newer version over it once it's released, or do I have to remove the whole thing before installing an update? Thanks! On 05/02/2015, timllloyd [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: > > > Hi, the