Update Open Office on Feisty Fawn

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On 10/18/2007 12:19 PM, Darryl Tidd wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Scott (angrykeyboarder) <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:12:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Update Open Office on Feisty Fawn
> 
> 
> Gunawan spake thusly:
>> Hi All,
>> As we know that Feisty Fawn comes with Open Office 2.2.0.
>> I would like to upgrade to 2.3.0 so I have download it from
>  openoffice.org.
>> Tar balls file contain many rpms. as advice by someone on ubuntu
>  forums
>> I run alien command to convert it
> 
> Here is what  I did.
> sudo apt-get remove openoffice*

1. Remove all the packages from the installed version
Go to Synaptic or your package manager and mark *all* the
openoffice.org2 packages installed to be removed.

> 
> Using this method I was able to install Open Office 2.3.0.
> However, after doing this, update manager tells me there are updates available for Open Office.

That's because there are still (U)OOo packages installed by the original
meta package.