On Sat, 19 May 2012 10:00:39 -0700 Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all-- > > It seems we are running into a number of very difficult problems with Linux > installs, the latest just e-mailed to this list this morning, due to the > way some vendors have installed LO. > > see: > > http://markmail.org/message/qz72ouzjvcm7uyfn > > > I'd really like to provide additional help in the install guide: > > http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html > > but I'm at a loss as to what this should say. > > I took a look at SOME of the postings on the support forums and well, still > at a loss. Generally, it seems that completely uninstall the old OOo 3.3 is > a given (please correct me if I'm wrong about this), but how to handle some > of the LO overlap? > > Can we get some opinions on what's the most accurate way to go about > installing AOO 3.4 on linux? > > * completely de-install LO first? install AOO 3.4, the re-install LO? > * completely de-install old OOo 3.3? and then? > > Thankfully, I did not run into these kinds of issues with my distro. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." > -- Mark Twain Kay My experience with OOo 2.3- AOO 3.4 on Ubuntu distros from 8.04 forward was that it was always best to remove the distro version of OOo before installing the Oracle OOo. I used do this by using the package manager Synaptic to remove openoffice.org-core, which took the other packages (Writer, Calc etc) with it. In more recent Ubuntus OOo was replaced by LibO, and I removed that in a similar fashion (libreoffice.org-core). After such removals I never had ant difficulty installing the Oracle/Apache OpenOffice versions. It may not have been strictly necessary to remove an earlier version so completely, but after having installation difficulties in my early days I now do this as a matter of course on the seven machines under my control. -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
