On 02/21/2011 02:16 PM, Mark Preston wrote: > I'm about ready to load up LibreOffice and start running it for work > but have really one simple question before I do. Background is I will > be running it on Windows Vista, currently run OpenOffice and will be > using it near daily including with MS Office documents and presentations. > > So the question is: can I load LibO side-by-side with OpenOffice and > if not what is the procedure to load LibO and - should there be > probelms - to reload OpenOffice? Most importantly, this is a > multi-user system so it needs to be loaded for at least three users. > Any advice much appreciated. >
It's an issue: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/ <quote> For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations. </quote> The issue is that LO uses the same executables as OOo (swriter, etc) and hasn't yet cleaned up the code to use something else (lowriter, etc). This can cause *considerable* issues with OOo and LO coexisting on the same Windows system. If you want to have both installed (on Windows - it's no issue on linux) at the same time, then I'd suggest installing 'in parallel', see: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel#Windows> So at this point (on Windows) you are better off with either/or: OOo or LO, but not both at the same time. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
