Although OpenOffice uses a different file format than Microsoft Office, it can still open MS Office files. As an alternative to Microsoft Office, users can use OpenOffice. That first uses rpm to list all all the installed packages, filters out the package names that don't match both the package name and the "fc9" identifier, then passes that list of packages to rpm for removal.Apache OpenOffice is an open-source and freely available office software package that is generally known as OpenOffice. You can combine those two steps together if you like: # rpm -qa | grep '^openoffice\.org.*\.fc9' >/tmp/pkgs_to_remove I normally just use the command shell, with commands like so (as root):
Of course, if you remove one of the OO.org packages by mistake, you can always re-install it. You can use a package manager to remove the Fedora packages, but be careful to check the full package name and version-id. You do need to be careful removing the Fedora packages, since the OO.org and Fedora packages have some names in common. Look for the "desktop-integration" directory where all the core rpms are unpacked. RPMS/desktop-integration/3.0-redhat-menus rpm included in the OO.org download. If you want to "go for it" just remove all the Fedora OOo pacakges, then install the. I would like to replace 2.4 with 3.0 so that when I select openoffice under Applications|Office, 3.0 comes up.Īs I mentioned, the OO.org does provide a desktop integration package, but I don't use it, so I can't really tell you for sure what it does or if it works correctly for Fedora.