openoffice.org update problem with FC4

Hi,

Did anyone experience the following problem:
In my /etc/yum.conf file I normally have openoffice* excluded for updates.
Openoffice is sooo big, I don't want to spend my time waiting for
downloading every new update of openoffice when I type "yum update" on my
command line.

But this time I had a free evening, and decided to update openoffice using
yum.
After the update was finished I started oowriter but it got stuck when the
OpenOffice opening screen appeared. Same story with oocalc. I could not
start my office applications anymore :-(

I reinstalled my original old 1.9beta version from a FC4 installation
DVD using "rpm -Uvh --oldpackage" This one still worked.

One of these days I have plans to upgrade from FC4 to FC5, but I wnat to
be sure OpenOffice works. I don't want to do a clean FC5 install if I
don't have to. I'd rather just update.

--

Martin Tarenskeen
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