CentOS - Jul 2010 - OpenOffice.org 3.1 installation was corrupted-installed again, nothing in Applications/Office menu

I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.

When I used "yum remove openoffice.org-core" the response was
"package
openoffice.org-core available but not installed", but then, when I
used "yum install openoffice.org-core there was a long list of
Transaction Check Errors. I then removed
openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-noarch which was in the errors.

Here's the first of those errors:
Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/bin/soffice from install of
openoffice.org-core-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1.i386 conflicts with file from
package openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-3.1-9393.noarch

The transaction completed OK, after I removed
openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-noarch, but now, there is nothing in
Applications/Office menu for OpenOffice.org   :-)


Question: How do I get the different entries for OpenOffice.org to
appear in that menu again so I can launch the application?
(If I need to install the latest version of
openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-noarch what command do I use to get the
correct version?)


CentOS 5.5 (32 bit):
[lanny at dell2400 ~]$ uname -a
Linux dell2400.homelan 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:09:10
EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linuxlate

TIA! Lanny
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Lanny Marcus wrote:
> I had a corrupted installation of OpenOffice.org 3.1.
>
> When I used "yum remove openoffice.org-core" the response was
"package
> openoffice.org-core available but not installed", but then, when I
> used "yum install openoffice.org-core there was a long list of
> Transaction Check Errors. I then removed
> openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-noarch which was in the errors.
>
> Here's the first of those errors:
> Transaction Check Error:
>    file /usr/bin/soffice from install of
> openoffice.org-core-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1.i386 conflicts with file from
> package openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-3.1-9393.noarch
you are mixing two different sources for OO: some of your installed 
packages come from the OO website, and you are trying to yum install the 
centos version on top of that.
Either remove all traces of the non-centos rpms and then install with 
yum, or stick to the ooo rpms and don't install the centos ones.
Watch out for openoffice.org-ure if you choose the second solution, that 
particular rpm has the same name in both sources, but the version number 
is higher in centos so yum might try to update it - and wreck your OO 
install.