Failing To Install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

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As in subject, am attempting to install latest LibreOffice on C7.

unpack all the rpm files, type “yum install *.rpm”, or “yum localinstall *.rpm”
and yum spews the list of filenames (with the word “examining” in front of each file) then says “nothing to do”.

what the hey?

I tried “yum clean all” but it didn’t help.

I also verified the sha256sum of the download.

Anyone got any good advice?

thanks in advance!

Fred

7 thoughts on - Failing To Install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

  • CentOS 7 comes with Libreoffice 5.3.6.1. There is no support for installing newer versions from other sources.

    RPM files from where? We don’t supply Libreoffice RPMs for any version other than what is stated above.

    Peter

  • Hi Fred I’m running SL6 and SL7 and I have just installed LibreOffice 6.3.0.4 OK
    in both. It should be just the same in CentOS. It’s best to do yum remove libreoffice* first to get rid of any earlier version, then go to the folder where you have all the new rpms and do yum install *.rpm

  • in answer to you and the several other responses to my posting:

    I removed the distro-provided LO, excluded it so yum won’t try to reinstall it, some time ago.

    I’ve been installing the latest from LOo periodically since then.

    Since my posting, I’ve remembered that the last time I installed LO
    I had the same problem and my “solution” was to use rpm -ivh *.rpm instead of yum. that workaround works fine.

    To the poster who commented that “we” don’t distribute later versions of LO, see above where I tell where I got it.

    I don’t understand why yum refuses to install it, while rpm will.

    Thanks for all your responses!

    Fred

  • Perhaps having moved over to the dark-side (rpm) you will be stuck using that, until redeemed by CentOS 8 with dnf :-)

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    if you exclude it in /etc/yum.conf then yum will not install it when you ask it to, depending on how you specify the exclude= pattern!

    you are welcome!

    Kay

  • Of course. Also there is no need to exclude because the LO6 rpms are labelled with 6.n appended to the name e.g. libreoffice6.3-freedesktop-menus-6.3.0-4.noarch