On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 07:35 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Forwarding a message. Drew has mentioned a solution that had been nagging > at the back of my mind: user configurations! I've never tried this myself, > though. >
Have no fear. THere is a solution. Please see "Installing multiple instances of OpenOffice.org with the same version number" from http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE.pdf > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Request to forward email for Authrors mailing list > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:26:31 -0400 > From: Andrew Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sorry to ask this of you, but it seems that nothing I send to the > Authors list gets through. > > Thanks > > Drew Jensen > > You don't need to install twice - at least not the binaries. > > You can creete two user configurations on the same machine. I have done > this under WinXP, I would guess it is roughly the same under other OS's. > > A configuration, as I reacall since it was a while back, required > nothing more then copying the directory tree the OOo user information to > a new location. Then using a command line to launch a second instance of > OOo that used this location for the user information. > > I'll put togehter a more detailed explanation, if needed, later today > and post it here. > > Drew > > Daniel Carrera wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-29-08 at 08:09 -0600, Scott Rhoades wrote: > > > >> Do any of you have OOo installed twice, one that's customized and one > >> that's clean and pristine? Or do you have some other solution to this > >> problem? > >> > > > > Installing OOo twice is perfectly reasonable. Just put them in different > > directories. > > > > Cheers, > > Daniel. > > -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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