Installing new ver of OpenOffice

[Harvey Ussery]

I have been using OpenOffice 1.0 a little under YDL 3.0. What a 
disappointment it was to find that that version does not have 
copy-and-paste. I have downloaded the new 1.1RC version [Anybody know 
what the "RC" stands for?]--hoping that copy-and-paste has been fixed 
in the new ver--but have not installed it as yet.

The OpenOffice site did not clarify how one would do an update from 1.0 
to 1.1RC. So I'm just going to do a full install of 1.1RC. Question: Is 
it necessary--is it better--to remove the previous ver of OO before 
installing the new one? (I have not been using it long enough to have 
any particular investment in existing configuration files.) And the 
command to do so is   rpm -e [package name]? Is there any problem if I 
just install the two ver's side by side? Note that what I will be using 
to install from is a tar.gz file (OOo_1.1RC_Linux. . 
.installer.tar.gz), not a .rpm file.

Thanks for any enlightenment.     --Harvey