I do not know what is happening with your system. It may be because they create soffice softlinks in the same place /usr/bin/. If You install OPen office from rpm binary. You may use this command as root: rpm qe openoffice to remove the older instalation. and try to install the newer version.
2006/4/10, Keith Haslip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am attempting to install OpenOffice v1.1.4 in a separate directory > from OpenOffice v1.0.2, but get an error message stating v1.1.4 is > already installed. > My system is AMD Athalon powered running Red Hat Linux v9.0 with updates > from Fedora Legacy. > Due to a recent hard disk crash, I was forced to re-install linux on a > new hard drive. As part of that re-installation, OpenOffice v1.0.2 was > installed in directory /usr/lib/openoffice. > After the linux re-installation, I tried to upgrade OpenOffice v1.0.2 to > v1.1.4 from a CD from linux central. The upgrade failed so I then had > to re-install OpenOffice v1.0.2 from my Red Hat linux v9.0 installation > CDs. The re-installation was successful but when I then attempted to > install OpenOffice v1.1.4 in an entirely diffrent directory from > OpenOffice v1.0.2 I get the error message mentioned above. The error > message suggests file sofficerc is the problem but I am unable to fix it. > The OpenOffice v1.1.4 linux setup program insists v1.1.4 is already > installed and offers to "repair" it, but the only version of OpenOffice > I can find is v1.0.2 which is working fine but I would like to upgrade > to v1.1.4. > Any advice will be greatly appreciated. > -- Andi Permadi Learn to live not otherwise Phone : (+62) 081802135272
