Hi Marcus Thanks for the reply and the info. Given that it's a known situation, wouldn't it be possible to come up with a more palatable and user-friendly solution than a 404? 404s don't generally leave a good impression. Maybe something like disabling the download link for this combination, or even better, directing to a page that gives a short explanation along the lines of what you've just described. Why not take the opportunity to keep folks informed, rather than leave them thinking that something's broken? Seems it should be trivial enough to do.
Is there anything I can do to help test the non-JRE British version? Regards Kurt On Monday, 19 March 2012, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kurt, > > the reason is that the British QA team (at Oracle times, before OOo was given to Apache) hasn't tested the Windows installer without JRE, only with JRE. Therefore only the first was released. See here: > > http://openoffice.mirrorbrain.org/files/localized/en-GB/3.3.0/ > > So, the file is not existing and the errror message is right. > > As alternative you should download the Windows installer with JRE. If not needed you can skip its installation. > > HTH > > Marcus > > > > Am 03/19/2012 02:42 PM, schrieb Kurt Underhay: >> >> On the page >> http://openoffice.org/download/other.html >> >> the link to download the English (British) / Windows Intel MSI package >> *excluding* the JRE is consistently broken, returning a 404 page. >> >> The page seems to be trying to link to this URL: >> http://openoffice.mirrorbrain.org/files/localized/en-GB/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_Win_x86_install_en-GB.exe >
