On Monday, 20. June 2011 13:33:45 Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:16 +0200, Nino Novak wrote: > > Jean, > > > > On Monday, 20. June 2011 03:57:51 Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > > Aside: I've been unable to get LibO 3.3.3 or LibO 3.4 to work, > > > but I've probably failed to do something essential. The > > > downloaded programs appear to install, but I cannot start them. > > > No matter what I choose, it always opens in the LibO that came > > > with Ubuntu. I didn't try the "desktop integration" because I > > > wanted to have both versions available, and I believe that for > > > awhile I did have both available. I don't have time right now to > > > troubleshoot this installation, so my workaround is to open a > > > file in OOo and create the PDF from there. > > > > there are instructions in the wiki on how to install several > > instances of LibreOffice in parallel[1] e.g. for testing purposes. > > Give it a try and feel free to ask questions about problems here > > as the instructions might be a bit buggy (they might have been > > written in a a bit "quick and dirty" manner). > > > > So you can use any version you need besides of the original (ubuntu > > or whatever) productive version. > > > > Nino > > [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel > > Thanks, Nino. I've done this successfully before, following the > instructions. It didn't work this time. It's probably user error, but > as I said I don't have time right now to figure out what I did wrong > or ask a question. Perhaps tomorrow, perhaps later in the week. Low > priority right now.
I rewrote the instructions to make debugging easier. Maybe you'll give it one more try when you need parallel install again. Any of the documenters trying out new features are also invited to give feedback, see separate mail. Nino -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
