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You can run updated versions of software without having updates from
RedHat. But, please be cautious with this. As you've already seen, you
can and will muck up your system.
When I absolutley must run a newer version of software, and RedHat
hasn't released an RPM for it, I obtain the source file and build it
myself. I usually deposit it in /usr/local/????, as a separate release
and point any dependancies to the new version. In the case of
OpenOffice, you will just obtain the binary release and install it in
/usr/local/.
I hope this helps.
Thom DeCarlo wrote:
>What is the right way to update and/or override packages that are provided
>by Redhat, but are horribly out of date? For example, the TIFF library in
>the RHEL3 distro is version 3.5.7, while the current release is version
>3.7.3. Also, OpenOffice is at release 2.0, but Redhat is only distributing
>version 1.2. And PostgreSQL v8.1.0 was just released; who knows how long
>Redhat will take to get that into the distro, if ever.
>
>These are only a couple examples of many that I need to update in order to
>begin transitioning my MS Windows apps to Linux. I recently tried to update
>the gtk+ libraries so I could update gimp and it really mucked up my system.
>It is at all possible to get new versions of these packages?
>
>Thanks for helping a newbie!
>Thom
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