Yum – How to Exclude package update

In previous post we have covered openoffice-3.2 installation,
by mow many must have noticed while running yum update, yum is trying to upgrade openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm which belongs to openoffice-3.2 installation. This package is being replaced by openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.14.fc12.i686 as a result openoffice does not work, to fix you need to reinstall openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm.

To avoid it further, you need to configure yum to exclude openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.14.fc12.i686 from updates.
this can be done by adding any of  below mentioned line in /etc/yum.conf

exclude=openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.14.fc12.i686

Or

exclude=openoffice*

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