[oclug]getting openoffice off your redhat system

[Chris H]

On January 28, 2003 09:53 pm, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> Ok, I'm trying to uninstall openoffice from my box, so that
> it will install cleanly again. 

1. First thing to do is remove the following file manually from your home dir
	<. sversionrc > file notice the (.) and no < > of course..:)

2. Next if you installed it correctly remove the OpenOffice.org1.0.X directory 
in your home directory.

3. Finally depending on where you installed OOo.org in /usr/local/ or /opt 
which is preferred (me thinks LSB compliant also but not really sure on that 
one) remove the complete /OpenOffice.org1.0.X directory

4. Thats all there is.

You can of course use the uninstall script but me thinks you never installed 
it correctly so this will probably not work.

Finally to reinstall

# tar zxvf OpenOffice.org1.0.X.tar.gz (typically in user account)
#cd OpenOffice.org1.0.X
#sux (or whatever)
#password: xxxxxxx
#./setup /net <--------use the net switch 
when prompted where to install pick your favorite place
#exit upon completion

Then as you 
user# 
user# cd /to where OOo.org lives/
user# ./setup   <----no switch this time

Now when prompted indicate a workstation install and make sure that you have 
JVM installed ie: 1.3.1 or greater to get the full function of OOo.org

Thats about it. Best of luck

/ch