[Novalug] Fedora 13 Install

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sun Jul 18 20:45:37 EDT 2010


try
   yum -y install  openoffice.org-writer

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:
> Did that, got:
>
> [Jhart@fedora ~]$ yum grouplist |grep Office
>   Office/Productivity
>   OpenOffice.org Development
>
> now what?
>
> I installed the package I mentioned in my original post, don't see a link to
> it from the menus.
>
> Jay
>
>> You can also look at the yum grouplist command for package groups (I think
>> open office can be found there)
>>
>> yum grouplist |grep Office
>>
>> Then you can do a
>>
>> yum groupinstall <groupname>
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:36 PM, American Dave Kline <novalug@soupy.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 05:08:28PM -0400, Jay Hart wrote:
>>>
>>> > My assumption is that I add/remove software via the add/remove software
>>> app
>>> > under System -> Administration.
>>>
>>> Most will use 'yum install <package>'.  I never liked GUI's for that sort
>>> of thing.  Quite useful is 'yum search <pkg>' and the aforementioned
>>> 'yum install <package>'.
>>>
>>> Updating outside of the GUI is 'yum update'.
>>>
>>> > The Software update tool reports there are 350 package updates available,
>>> my
>>> > assumption here is that these are package updates for "things" I have
>>> > installed, not packages that are not installed.  Can I get another
>>> opinion on
>>> > this.
>>>
>>> You're correct.  Fedora updates very often.  Fedora 13 has drpm support
>>> enabled
>>> meaning you'll download only deltas for installed packages, saving
>>> bandwidth.
>>>
>>> > Only issue I have run into so far is what to install for Open Office.  I
>>> don't
>>> > see a package big enough to be the base OO install.  Can someone help me
>>> out
>>> > here...  Is it 'Core modules for OpenOffice.org'  (80.6MB)?
>>>
>>> Look at your options with 'yum search openoffice'.  There are many
>>> options.  I'll quite often just run 'sudo yum install
>>> openoffice.org-writer' for the writer, etc.
>>>
>>> Best of luck,
>>> -A. Dave
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