yum install obsolete openoffice instead of libreoffice

Question

Unfortunately the software that I'm using (Alfresco) requires the installation of openoffice, and not libreoffice. If I try and configure it to use libreoffice I receive errors during startup. If I try to install any of the openoffice packages:

yum install openoffice*

I receive errors for all packages similar to:

Package openoffice.org-langpack-bg_BG is obsoleted by libreoffice-langpack-bg, trying to install 1:libreoffice-langpack-bg-3.4.5.2-16.el6.x86_64 instead

Then it proceeds to try and download libreoffice. I don't see anything in man yum with regards to installing obsolete packages. Is there any way to install obsolete packages via yum and not their newer counterparts?

Answer 1

If you prefer, you can download the proper package (deb, rpm..) from the official website: http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html

After you can install with rpm or with yum.

Answer 2

I found that, when installing openoffice, adding exclude=libreoffice* to your /etc/yum.conf helped with sudo yum update, and I am sure that it would help with your problem too. It tells yum to ignore libreoffice* packages, therefore yum does not even know that there is a package that obsoletes openoffice.

Answer 3

sudo yum --setopt=obsoletes=0 install openoffice*

Or you can put obsoletes=0 to /etc/yum.conf

Both ways worked for me on Oracle Linux 6.7.