On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > OK, thanks. I will wait "until the world turns" :) before editing the install guide. >From what I've seen on the Forums, things get very frustrating trying to deal with some distros. I lucked out, or did the right things at the right time or something. and Dennis on your comment -- I'm sure those most intimately involved with the development will have an opinion about this. It could work. > > -- > Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." -- Mark Twain
