Can't reinstall OpenOffice on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enteprise Linux 6

Issue

  • Removed OpenOffice from the system via yum and tried to install again. However, the facing following error :
# yum install openoffice.org-writer
…
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/bin/javaldx conflicts between attempted installs of
openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/bin/regcomp.bin conflicts between attempted installs of
openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/bin/regmerge conflicts between attempted installs of
openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/bin/regview conflicts between attempted installs of
openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/bin/startup.sh conflicts between attempted installs of
openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/bin/uno.bin conflicts between attempted installs of
openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/lib/JREProperties.class conflicts between attempted installs
of openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/lib/acceptor.uno.so conflicts between attempted installs of
openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/lib/bootstrap.uno.so conflicts between attempted installs
of openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/lib/connector.uno.so conflicts between attempted installs
of openoffice.org-ure-1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7.x86_64 and libreoffice-ure-1:4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
…

Resolution

  • While diagnosing the installation removal, there were some files found in the /usr/lib64:
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       23 Out 14 12:59 openoffice.org -> /usr/lib64/libreoffice/
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root     4096 Mar 20 16:58 libreoffice
  • After removing them, the yum completes the installation successfully.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Tried to inform all packages on yum command:
 # yum install openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-draw
  • yum clean all didn't help.

  • After perform yum remove the error persists:

# yum remove libreoffice* openoffice*

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