How to uninstall Open Office from Linux

Question

I am working on Fedora 10, I want to uninstall all the Open Office packages from my Linux system. I need to install another version (*OOo_3.1.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz*).

Answer 1

The yum command works great for me:

yum remove openoffice*

Please note the last * after openoffice. I first used yum remove openoffice and it did not work, then I realized the missing *.

By the way, I am using Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1, which is binary compatible with RHEL 6.1.

Answer 2

Or you could do:

rpm -qa | egrep "^ooo|openoffice" | xargs sudo rpm -e

Answer 3

Note that there is no technical need to uninstall the installed office packages, they can coexist. But if you want to, you can find & deinstall them using Fedora's package manager.

OOo_3.1.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz can be installed by just unpacking it to an arbitrary directory, then installing the RPMs inside (using e.g. rpm).

Answer 4

You can also remove it using Yum directly in Terminal

yum remove openoffice*

I don't have access to my linux box at the moment so I can't remember if it is open-office or openoffice.

Answer 5

You can try

rpm -e openffice* 

Otherwise you can go to Application → Add/Remove Software and search for OpenOffice. This will be a safe method.