centos 6 - yum install Libreoffice Writer without Java
2014-04
Linux NewB
Is it possible for me to yum install LibreOffice Writer without Java also being installed?
I don't want to install the full libreoffice package because it prompts me to update my java and tomcat which I'm trying to avoid.
I'm using CentOS.
Vanadis
A full libreoffice installation without Java is not possible. LibreOffice Base uses a HSQLDB with is written in Java (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSQLDB).
You can run most of the products without Java by going to Tools->Options>-LibreOffice->Java and uncheck "Use Java virtual machine"
If the Package in the CentOS-repos requires Java you can try installing the rpm directly provided by libreoffice.org or install the rpm in the centos-repo with
rpm --nodeps
Either way, make a backup first.
Eli Courtwright
I have a Fedora system with Postgres version 8.3 and I want to downgrade to 8.2 because of a compatibility issue. I've been using yum for everything, but it's my first time with this package manager, and I don't know how to downgrade things.
So how do I tell it to give me a specific version of a package?
EDIT: I managed to get this working by following by downloading the specific packages as per skymt's suggestion, plus installing their GPG key. All I had to do was
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-PGDG
yum localinstall postgresql-8.2.10-1PGDG.f9.i386.rpm
yum localinstall .....
And so on. However, this was fairly clunky and I'm still hoping that there's an easier way. If anyone knows of how to get YUM to target a specific version without resorting to this, please let me know so that I'll be able to do this next time.
Oscar Raig Colon
In Centos I did following this steps:
On /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.
on Base and Update sections add the next lines exclude=postgresql* (then you don't update from normal repository for postgres rpm).
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
exclude=postgresql*
#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
exclude=postgresql*
Then download the version that you want. See http://yum.pgrpms.org/howtoyum.php
wget http://yum.pgrpms.org/reporpms/8.3/pgdg-centos-8.3-6.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh pgdg-centos-8.3-6.noarch.rpm
Now you have another repo in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ pgdg-82-centos.repo.
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Media.repo pgdg-82-centos.repo
then if you install postgres, centos will take from yum.pgsqlrpms.org/
yum install postgresql postgresql-server
EmmEff
From the manpage:
MISC
Specifying package names A package can be referred to for install,update,list,remove etc with any of the following: name name.arch name-ver name-ver-rel name-ver-rel.arch name-epoch:ver-rel.arch epoch:name-ver-rel.arch For example: yum remove kernel-2.4.1-10.i686
You may have to manually remove the newer version and then install the older.
Álvaro G. Vicario
Use the upgrade option and specify the version number:
yum upgrade postgresql-8.2.10
Check the dependencies list before hitting Y. You might need to add other packages to the upgrade list.
A quick look at the man page revealed no such option. It seems they haven't added that yet; Yum is still a fairly young package manager.
Instead, download and manually install the relevant RPMs.